Episodes

  • Trailer: American Skyjacker

    Trailer: American Skyjacker
    Jun 15 2020
    What happens when a small-time crook takes a shot at the ultimate mile-high score? This is American Skyjacker. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    3 mins
  • I Can Do That | Chapter 1

    I Can Do That | Chapter 1
    Jul 21 2020
    In the wake of the infamous D.B. Cooper hijacking, Martin ‘Mac’ McNally, an ex-Navy mechanic and gas station attendant who moonlights as a small-time crook, hears the details of the mysterious Cooper heist on the radio and thinks, “I can do that.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    39 mins
  • Gateway to the Sky | Chapter 2

    Gateway to the Sky | Chapter 2
    Jul 21 2020
    After casing airports around the Midwest, Mac decides to hijack an American Airlines flight out of St. Louis’s Lambert International Airport and demand $500,000— more than twice what Cooper had escaped with. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    42 mins
  • Free, Fallin' | Chapter 3

    Free, Fallin' | Chapter 3
    Jul 21 2020
    After a vigilante derails his plans mid-hijacking, Mac must improvise a way to escape authorities with his money— and without being killed in the process. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    49 mins
  • Which Way Out | Chapter 4

    Which Way Out | Chapter 4
    Jul 28 2020
    On the lam somewhere in the mid-West, Mac is arguably the most wanted man in America — and he'll do whatever it takes to avoid capture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    45 mins
  • Trap, The Fox | Chapter 5

    Trap, The Fox | Chapter 5
    Aug 4 2020
    Mac meets another skyjacker in prison — the James Bond of career criminals — a man named Garrett Brock Trapnell. In this episode, we'll learn Trap's wild backstory as he and Mac plot an insane escape from the Supermax prison where they're incarcerated. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    48 mins
  • The Writer, the Mother, and the Con | Chapter 6

    The Writer, the Mother, and the Con | Chapter 6
    Aug 11 2020
    As Mac and Trapnell execute their brazen prison escape, we'll explore the motivations of the third hijacker in our story: Barbara Oswald, the woman helping them escape via helicopter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    47 mins
  • The Legend of Allen Barklage | Chapter 7

    The Legend of Allen Barklage | Chapter 7
    Aug 18 2020
    As the dramatic prison escape unfolds, we'll focus on the pilot of the hijacked helicopter — a local hero of the St. Louis area named Allen Barklage, who is forced to make a life or death decision. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    39 mins