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,
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Cooper could not even keep hold of all the cash, there is no way he kept his bail out rig.
DNA analysis wasn’t a thing back in 1971. But if they had kept the cigarette butts that Cooper had used, the mystery might have been solved years ago.
Bombshell has become the most meaningless word in the English language.
Reminds me of days gone by when people dressed well to travel. Today it’s slippers and pajamas.
I thought Cooper demanded and received 5 parachutes, one of which was used for the escape. It would be stupid to keep it.
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.
Still, always been an entertaining and interesting mystery IMO.
Gotta hand it to him.....whoever that guy was, he had a set of stones on him to jump outta that jet in those conditions at night......or he was just a lunatic.
No its tied with Racist
“days gone by when people dressed well to travel”
And every seat had it’s own ashtray. 😏
I can see taking the parachute with him to not leave a trail behind. But at some point, you would like to think he would have disposed of the parachute, possibly piece by piece.
I doubt it...
Interesting
4 years is not "nearly a decade".
'That rig is literally one in a billion,' he told the outlet.
No.
And Nazi
Far be it from the daily mail to not sensationalize a story......looking for clicks just like this guy is looking for hits on his YT channel.
Hannity has made it meaningless—one reason I no longer listen to him.
With just a little plastic surgery, Cooper could have easily become a replacement for Mitch McConnell. Enquiring minds want to know!
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