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After 50 years of mystery, siblings claim hijacker DB Cooper was their father
Guardian ^ | 30 Nov 2024 | Adam Gabbatt

Posted on 12/01/2024 8:52:20 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT

Chanté and Rick McCoy III say their father, Richard McCoy Jr, was the man who identified himself as Dan Cooper when he boarded a Northwest Orient Airlines jetliner from Portland to Seattle in November 1971.

“That rig is literally one in a billion,” Gryder said of the parachute, according to the Cowboy State Daily. He said FBI agents had visited the property of the McCoys’ mother, Karen, who died in 2020, last year. Agents searched “every nook and cranny”, according to Gryder, and the McCoys handed over the parachute.

McCoy, a former military helicopter pilot who served in the Vietnam war, was among a number of suspects investigated by the FBI after he hijacked a plane on 7 April 1972, leaping out of the aircraft with $500,000 cash, over Provo, Utah. McCoy was arrested two days later and sentenced to 45 years in prison, but he escaped in 1974 – after three months on the run he was killed by an FBI agent.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Humor
KEYWORDS: dbcooper; flight305; mccoy; richardfloydmccoyii; skyjack; skyjacker; skyjacking
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To: DUMBGRUNT
A fingerprint got him caught after conducting an identical hijacking a few months later.

The FBI never had much doubt he was DB Cooper, they just couldn't prove it.

21 posted on 12/01/2024 10:46:25 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: fso301

—” good luck proving none of your family assets came from that money”

On the positive side like the Norks and a few others, Kim Il-Sung once said that any person who has anti-government sentiments should be wiped out entirely and up to three generations of their family should be punished.
In the US they crush you with lawfare, imputed income tax, and penalties.


22 posted on 12/01/2024 10:54:09 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

—”A fingerprint got him caught after conducting an identical hijacking a few months later.”

“In fact, the dearth of information on the fingerprints is so complete that I’ve never written about it before, and this chapter was not included in previous editions of this book. Along those lines, the early works on Cooper barely mention the fingerprints at all, such as Richard Tosaw’s Dead or Alive – DB Cooper, and they fail to declare any specificity as to number, types, and clarity. More troubling information comes from Geoffrey Gray, who, even with his unlimited access to FBI files, was unable to deliver any definitive statement on the fingerprints in his SKYJACK, and in an email to me in 2020 stated: “However many sets there were… we know the quality and origin are… no good or incomplete.”

The FIBS botched again.
https://themountainnewswa.net/2020/12/07/db-cooper-the-fingerprint-conundrum/


23 posted on 12/01/2024 11:04:27 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

First I’m hearing of this ...

Family Claims Late Father Is Mysterious Plane Hijacker DB Cooper After Discovering Parachute in Storage

11/27/2024 9:36:56 AM PST · by bitt · 17 replies
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com ^ | 11/26/2024 | Anthony Scott

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4281200/posts

Siblings Claim Late Dad Is Mysterious Plane Hijacker DB Cooper After Finding Hidden Parachute in Home: ‘One in a Billion’

11/26/2024 9:50:23 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 27 replies
New York Post ^ | Nov. 26, 2024 | Ronny Reyes

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4281128/posts

Who is D.B. Cooper? New Evidence May Crack One Of America’s Greatest Mysteries

11/24/2024 7:35:19 PM PST · by lasereye · 10 replies
Cowboy State Daily ^ | November 23, 2024 | Jen Kocher

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4280677/posts

DB Cooper Mystery After 53 Years - New Clues May Solve Case.

11/24/2024 5:19:11 PM PST · by equaviator · 43 replies
Lawyer Monthly ^ | Nov. 24 2024

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4280658/posts

... not.


24 posted on 12/01/2024 11:27:20 AM PST by Paal Gulli
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To: Paal Gulli

—”In case we missed it the first seven times it was posted here?”

Nothing comes up on a title search.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=After%2050%20years%20of%20mystery%2C%20siblings%20claim%20hijacker%20DB%20Cooper


25 posted on 12/01/2024 11:47:24 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Sure Jan.


26 posted on 12/01/2024 11:59:26 AM PST by 3RIVRS
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To: bgill

Thank you! I don’t think they look anything alike. The only resemblance is that they are both men.


27 posted on 12/01/2024 12:01:18 PM PST by Kathy in OC
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To: DUMBGRUNT

The original article ends in TDS calling to stop Trump from shackling the fake news. The DB Cooper story was an effective hook.


28 posted on 12/01/2024 12:44:00 PM PST by drypowder
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To: drypowder

—”The original article ends in TDS calling to stop Trump from shackling the fake news. “

????
Are you shure?
Are you logged in?


29 posted on 12/01/2024 1:06:12 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: Kathy in OC

Like Bridge Guy in the Abby and Libby case. One sketch looked to be 20ish and the other a rough guy at least 40. It’s no wonder it took so long finding Bridge Guy who worked at the local CVS store but looked nothing like either sketch. Sadly, too many sketches look nothing like the perps or the deceased Doe victims. The only clay creation that is spot on is the John List one.

Lots of relatives have come forward saying their dad or uncle was Cooper.


30 posted on 12/01/2024 4:01:48 PM PST by bgill
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31 posted on 12/01/2024 4:55:22 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I opened the original article and in the last paragraph the author slammed Trump for his fake news stance. Check it out.


32 posted on 12/01/2024 4:56:26 PM PST by drypowder
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To: DUMBGRUNT

https://freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=cooper


33 posted on 12/01/2024 4:57:47 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: bgill

It’s weird how memories change. I think the clothes that Bridge Guy was wearing kept changing too. It might not seem to matter but the witness can lose credibility if their story has changed a lot.

I had involvement in a big murder case and everyone went on about how the artist sketch was so good. I don’t get it. I tried to copy them here but can’t make it happen. I can’t even post a link because they include so much other info it’s not worth it. But it was Rodney Alcala if you want to look at it. The sketch looks nothing like him or photos except for curly hair. I don’t get it.


34 posted on 12/01/2024 5:06:57 PM PST by Kathy in OC
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To: drypowder

Last lines of the article:

“McCoy was arrested two days later and sentenced to 45 years in prison, but he escaped in 1974 – after three months on the run he was killed by an FBI agent.

Perhaps McCoy died hiding the secret of the DB Cooper hijacking with him – and 50 years on, the truth may finally have come to light.

???
Not sure what you may be reading?
Perhaps they tag you as a fellow traveler?
Maybe update your VPN...


35 posted on 12/01/2024 5:12:04 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

My bad. I read right into the article below, not recognizing that it was a different article.


36 posted on 12/01/2024 8:38:42 PM PST by drypowder
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