Posted on 11/23/2024 2:42:02 PM PST by 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,
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They know who put the cocaine in the White House. They just won’t tell the peons.
Texas, OK, LA, AR and MS
D B Cooper and Donald Trump have never been seen in the same room together.
“Debunked” holds top honors, when the 2020 steal is involved
Bless your grandson. I never had any urge to do that, not even 40yrs ago in my 30s.
Gryder spent decades investigating this, and I really enjoyed his documentaries, including the Part 3 update released this week.
He’s not the slickest video editor so Part 1 is lengthy (3 hours), but he’s been diligently researching and investigating the DB Cooper case for 20+ years. It appears he got to the truth (Part 1), find the physical evidence (Part 2), and have the FBI examining the evidence (Part 3).
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