Watch Rodney Bonnifield confess to being D.B. Cooper in the trailer for IAmDBCooper:
Over the years, the world has faced its fair share of unsolved mysteries.
If you were to ask an American to name one of their country’s most famous unsolved cases, chances are that many would mention the identity and secret treasure of D.B. Cooper. In a mash-up documentary-meets-scripted dramatization titled I am DB Cooper, Gravitas Ventures and director T.J. Regan is hoping to bring some long-awaited answers about the man behind the legend.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY In a trailer released today, the story behind D.B. Cooper begins to unravel as an elderly man named Rodney Bonnifield confesses that he is in fact the infamous bandit. After he’s been arrested by local law enforcement officers after a harrowing assault on a dairy farm that involved a machete, Bonnifield decides to reveal it all and come clean about his true identity — that he is in fact D.B.
Although the official investigation into the whereabouts of Cooper was closed back in 2016, with many members of the FBI believing the man simply didn’t survive the parachute jump, there’s been a recent resurgence in curiosity about the case. Over the summer, Netflix dropped a docuseries titled D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?! which poured over the facts hoping to better understand the man and the crime itself.
With the popularity of documentary projects including Netflix’s Unsolved Mysteries and the Ryan Murphy-created dramatized true-story based The Watcher, I am DB Cooper will certainly find a home with true-crime and mystery lovers everywhere hoping for some solid answers. You can check out the film’s trailer below and catch it in theaters and on-demand on December 9.