Two brothers in North Carolina believe their late father was the notorious and elusive skyjacker DB Cooper, who jumped out of a plane with $200,000 in cash during a 1971 robbery.
Chante McCoy III and Rick McCoy III allegedly found the suspect's parachute hidden in their home, and their father, Richard McCoy Jr., was identified as a fugitive, according to a report in the Cowboy State Daily. It is claimed that there is. The case remains unsolved 53 years later.
The unidentified thief, using the name Dan Cooper, took passengers and crew hostage aboard Northwest Orient Flight 305 before jumping off and disappearing somewhere between Seattle and Reno, Nevada. Wearing a business suit, he handed a note to the flight attendant asking her to be with him because there was a bomb in his briefcase.
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A sketch provided by the FBI depicts the skyjacker known as “Dan Cooper” or “DB Cooper.” Two brothers in North Carolina believe their late father was a notorious hijacker. (FBI)
He then opened his briefcase, revealing a large amount of wire and colored sticks, authorities said. He allegedly instructed the flight attendant to write a note to the captain demanding four parachutes and $200,000 in $20 bills.
The case would spark one of the longest and most thorough investigations in FBI history. The McCoys told the newspaper that the FBI searched their home in North Carolina and confiscated the parachute in 2023.
They also said they provided investigators with a DNA sample of the father. They said they waited until their mother died in 2020 to come forward because they feared their mother might be involved in the crime because a parachute allegedly used by the suspect was inside the house.
The McCoys said they had known the truth about their father for years, but talking about it was taboo within the family.
Dan Glide, an aviation YouTuber who witnessed the parachute, said he believed it was used in a robbery, the paper said.
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The heavily decomposed $20 bill was shown to a newspaper reporter after serial number testing revealed it was the same bill given to hijacker DB Cooper on November 24, 1971. (Getty Images)
“That rig is literally one in a billion,” Greider told his brothers. new york post Reported.
a hidden money found He was buried along the Columbia River near Portland, Oregon in 1980. F.B.I. The search continued. The case is the only unsolved skyjacking in U.S. history, and there are many interesting candidates high on the list of suspects.
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Richard McCoy has long been considered one of several suspects by the FBI since he was involved in a similar hijacking in Utah five months after the D.B. Cooper incident. He was sentenced to 45 years in prison for the Utah crime, but later escaped from a federal prison in Pennsylvania along with three other inmates.
Two of the fugitives were arrested within days, but McCoy was killed three months later in a shootout with the FBI in Virginia Beach, Virginia, the paper said.
In 2016, the FBI announced it would no longer actively investigate the case, citing the manpower and man-hours involved and the lack of reliable leads.
FBI agents dig the beach where some of DB Cooper's hijack funds were found. (Getty Images)
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“Each time the FBI evaluates additional information regarding the NORJAK incident, investigative resources and personnel are diverted from programs with more urgent needs,” the bureau said.
Multiple suspects have emerged over the years, but they have never been linked to the crime. Sheridan Peterson, a top suspect because of his love of skydiving and taking physical risks, died in 2021.
