Posted on 11/24/2024 5:19:11 PM PST by equaviator
A groundbreaking new clue might finally unlock the long-standing mystery of the DB Cooper case, which has puzzled investigators for over 53 years.
On November 24, 1971, a man using the alias Dan "DB" Cooper hijacked Northwestern Flight 305 over Portland, demanding a ransom of $200,000. After receiving the money, he parachuted out of the aircraft and vanished without a trace. Recently, on the 53rd anniversary of the hijacking, a parachute believed to belong to Cooper may have been discovered.
The children of Richard Floyd McCoy II, a suspect in the case, have stepped forward with intriguing information. Chante and Richard III 'Rick' McCoy reached out to YouTuber Dan Gryder, who has been delving into the case for years, inviting him to their home in 2022. Gryder, who had previously contacted the siblings, shared with Cowboy State Daily that a modified military parachute found in the McCoy garage could potentially be the one used by Cooper.
He remarked, "That rig is literally one in a billion." The McCoy siblings concur with Gryder's assessment but chose to wait until after their mother's passing to share their thoughts, as they believed she may have been involved in their father's actions.
Many people suspect that McCoy is the notorious hijacker who leaped from a United Airlines flight over Utah in 1972 with $500,000 in cash. Gryder mentioned that the FBI reached out to him after he shared details of his investigation on YouTube. The amateur sleuth stated that in 2023, FBI agents met with him and Rick to collect the harness and parachute as evidence, along with a logbook that Chante discovered, which was relevant to the hijacking case.
Dan "DB" Cooper is the name used by the criminal who took control of Northwestern Flight 305
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His family believes it was him, but kept quiet until their mother died because they were afraid she was an accomplice. They turned over the evidence to the FBI.
“..Where were you when DB Cooper jumped out of that airliner? /s...”
I was a dirt poor college kid trying to live on $5/week and thinking: “$200,000 for just jumping out of an airliner? Naaaa. I’ll just stay poor.”
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Where were you when DB Cooper jumped out of that airliner?
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In a crib in an apartment in Santa Monica, California. Shortly before the Sylmar earthquake. Coincidence? /s
“I just don’t believe in coincidences.”
I do. Coincidences can happen. The 2nd hijacking could have been a copycat crime or the same guy could have done both. It is hard to believe a guy would push his luck and do a 2nd one but there are cases of robbers continuing to rob banks after getting away with it. So it happens.
I understand the main reason the FBI didn’t think McCoy did the 1st one is because the eyewitnesses said McCoy wasn’t the one when shown his photo. One would think those eyewitnesses would clearly remember the face of a hijacker.
Sure eye witnesses can be wrong but that seems strange to me.
Let’s see if they get any new hard evidence. I’m not convinced they have solved it yet.
Yeah, I think he’s in one of those distant blurry pictures/videos with the guy in the Bigfoot costume running away...
I was a freshman in high school in Northern Idaho. I would watch the evening news every night and I do vaguely remember this story when it broke.
Actually, eyewitnesses are documented to be highly unreliable.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-the-eyes-have-it/
I was a senior in high school and working at a McDonald’s.
“That rig is literally one in a billion.”
Much less than Gryder’s head is LITERALLY head up his ass.
Fort Bragg in the 82nd Airborne Division.
I was in HS but got to the 82d in July 74 in what was my Junior year. That was a paratroopers dream hiest.
I was 2 years old but I vividly remember my dab bringing piles of no net to play games with very realistic cash. Who knew my Danny bulshitus cooper was the man being searched for. He was an avid night parachutist with top notch survival skills.
Ungh, here we go again.
I was either finishing 7th Grade basketball practice, babysitting my brother and sister or loitering at the 7-11 along with some of my school chums.
I heard somewhere that John Bobbitt later changed his name to “Les Johnson”...
Makes sense.
New evidence plus the family (witnesses essentially) all point in that direction.
He also made a porno.
I think that got a lot of folks watrching just out of curiosity.
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