Planes, parachutes and armed robbery: Netflix take on the master criminal who became a folk hero

The series becomes the Netflix true crime equivalent of Zodiac as the focus shifts to Colbert.

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It may begin as a grabby crime thriller, but as it progresses, it becomes more shapeless and unsettling.

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It's a story about what happens when you can't let go.

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This line of storytelling reaches a climax in the third episode, when we are fully immersed in what obsessives

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refer to as "The Cooper Vortex," a dark morass of conspiracy theories that draws people in due to the case's total refusal to be solved.

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Was Cooper involved in the French Canadian comics industry? Why did he have one titanium molecule on his tie?

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A befuddlingly long section of the documentary is dedicated to numerology,

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with one poor subject scribbling out strings of numbers that appear to prove beyond all doubt that Rackstraw is DB Cooper.

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