Is he the real McCoy?
Two sets of North Carolina brothers claim their late father was the ever-elusive Boeing hijacker DB Cooper after finding parachutes hidden in their home, according to a new report.
Chante McCoy III and Rick McCoy III, whose father, Richard McCoy Jr., was a notorious fugitive who disappeared in 1971 by taking passengers and crew hostage and jumping out of a Boeing plane with $200,000 in cash. claims that it was. The Cowboy State Daily reported..
The brothers said they waited until their mother died in 2020 to come forward because they feared their mother might be involved after a parachute believed to belong to Cooper was found in storage outside their home.
After her death, the brothers met with the following people: Aviation YouTuber Dan Griderhe sees a parachute and believes it is exactly the one Cooper used in 1971.
“That rig is literally one in a billion,” Greider told local media about the unique parachute he saw.
Mr. Greider said the parachute that was in the McCoy family's home was used by veteran skydiver Earl Earl for police as part of Mr. Cooper's request before Mr. Cooper disappeared somewhere between Seattle and Reno, Nevada. – Claimed that it matched a modified parachute prepared by Mr. Koshy.
DB Cooper detectives are raising the possibility that Richard Jr. may have been a fugitive for many years, given his own criminal history.
Five months after Cooper carried out his famous caper, Richard Jr. was also caught carrying out a similar hijacking in Utah. The thief eventually escaped from prison and died in the ensuing shootout with police.
The McCoy brothers tell Glider that they have known the truth for years, but are reluctant to tell it within their family due to concerns that law enforcement may have involved their mother, Karen, in both hijackings. He said the matter remained taboo.
Mr. Grider published his latest theory and images about the parachute, and the FBI is said to have contacted the McCoys to confirm the evidence itself.
The McCoys told the newspaper that the FBI searched the North Carolina complex for further clues and seized the parachute in 2023, and that Rick also provided investigators with a DNA sample.
Investigators are said to have told him that the next step could be to exhume his father's body, but such a request has not yet been made.
The FBI has not made any public announcements about the investigation or acknowledged that it is actively investigating the D.B. Cooper case.
The agency announced that the case was officially closed in 2016 because no leads were obtained.
It has yet to be confirmed whether Cooper survived the jump over rugged, wooded terrain somewhere between Seattle and Reno, Nevada.
One of the few clues to the hijacker's identity was a recovered black tie and a crumbled package of $20 bills that matched the ransom's serial number. It was excavated by a young boy from a sandbar along the Columbia River in 1980.
