Bombshell new clue may finally crack DB Cooper case 53 years after hijacker escaped out of plane with $200k

UK Daily Mail ^ | 11/23/2024 | ALYSSA GUZMAN

[DFG]

The parachute that the infamous hijacker DB Cooper used to make his getaway out of a plane with $200,000 may have finally been found.

The enigma behind DB Cooper, the man who jumped out of Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 with thousands in cash after handing a stewardess a note demanding the ransom, has long stumped the FBI.

Nearly a decade later, the FBI has begun unofficially looking back into the case after the children of Richard Floyd McCoy II contacted YouTuber Dan Gryder in 2020 with possible evidence.

After Chanté and Richard III 'Rick' McCoy's mother died, they got in contact with Gryder - who had bothered them on and off for years while doing his own investigation - inviting him to the family's North Carolina property in July 2022.

Inside McCoy's mother's storage was a modified military surplus bailout rig Gryder believes Cooper used in the heist, he told Cowboy State Daily.

'That rig is literally one in a billion,' he told the outlet.

McCoy's children also agree that their father may have been Cooper, but they refrained from coming forward with their speculation until their mother died, as they believed she was complicit in her husband's crime.

On Monday, Gryder released a video on his YouTube channel, where he announced the FBI had been looking into their newest discoveries.

The amateur investigator said FBI agents contacted him after watching his first two videos, one of which shows him discovering the parachute in the storage house on the family's property.

It was the first time the FBI had made a move in the DB Cooper since they had tabled it in 2016, pending any new evidence.

The flight instructor claimed FBI agents met with him and Rick to take the harness and parachute into evidence,

[delta7]

I have been on hundreds of jet airline flights and it never occurred to me “Sure, I will jump out of this jet for $200k.”
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Inflation and an ever decreasing USD has taken its toll.

Using the Fed Inflation calculator, $200,000 then is equivalent to $1,558,834.57 today….and that is using the Fed’s understated inflation numbers.

[shanover]

Every 10 years we have DB chat.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

There is no such thing as a perfectly good airplane.

There are only a bunch of parts that are hanging together out of habit. And then they decide to go their separate ways.

[Carriage Hill]

Good one!

I haven’t flown, either commercial or private (dumped my license), since July 1996, when TWA 800 was shot down over Long Island.

If I can’t drive ‘there’, I don’t need to go ‘there’.

[thinden]

Circle back

[fortes fortuna juvat]

Bombshell has become the most meaningless word in the English language.
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And much of what follows that word is pure bullsh*t and equally meaningless.

[fortes fortuna juvat]

FBI: “We have reason to believe it was Donald Trump”
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Stop that, you caused me to dribble my beer all over my clean shirt!

[SunkenCiv]

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[V_TWIN]

$200k back then is roughly worth 1.5 million today......not that that would be any more of a motivation. 😏

[fortes fortuna juvat]

Heh, I never understood why anyone would jump out of a perfectly good airplane.
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Exactly what I was telling my grandson before he went and did it! The instructors wouldn’t let him jump until he shed 25 pounds. So he went on a diet and then jumped. Now he’s hooked and doing it frequently. I keep trying to persuade him to see a shrink, but he just laughs at me.

[Secret Agent Man]

He was wearing a MAGA hat? Sergeant, find out where Kanye West was last night...

/Chappelle on “Jussie Smooliete”

[Loud Mime]

So everyone remembers the DB Cooper heist, but until reading this I never heard of an identical crime just 5 months later, with the guy caught.

That guy was on the search team looking for himself, until a friend turned him in.

[al baby]

It was Treat Williams

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I got it from my husband who used to jump out of airplanes for Uncle Sam.

I never really felt easy about flying after that.

[TalBlack]

Ok, this McCoy gets busted for another hijacking months after DB Cooper gets away with one and NOBODY in the FBI put him together with that police drawing? Seriously!? That’s one of the best cop drawing matches I’ve ever seen.

[TalBlack]

You for it “iconic”.

[AndyJackson]

Hannity has become as meaningless as bombshell.

[TalBlack]

Forgot

[Thank You Rush]

“”After Chanté and Richard III ‘Rick’ McCoy’s mother died,””

Nothing messes up a story more than running into a name of a person who hasn’t even been identified as part of the story. Who in the devil is Chante’? I’ll not finish reading this even tho’ I’ve been intrigued by the story since it took place..

[jdsteel]

Come on, man!

The FBI can’t even find out who left cocaine in the White House!!!