Posted on 11/26/2024 9:50:23 PM PST by nickcarraway
A pair of North Carolina siblings claim their late father is the ever-elusive Boeing hijacker DB Cooper after allegedly finding his parachute hidden in their home, according to a new report.
Chanté and Rick McCoy III claim their father, Richard McCoy Jr., was the infamous fugitive who disappeared when he leaped out of a Boeing plane with $200,000 in cash after taking passengers and crew hostage in 1971, the Cowboy State Daily reports. The siblings said they waited until their mother’s death in 2020 to come forward, fearing she could be implicated as the parachute that allegedly belonged to Cooper was found in her storage stash outside the house.
After her death, the siblings met with aviation YouTuber Dan Gryder, who has seen the parachute and believes it’s the very one Cooper used in 1971. “That rig is literally one in a billion,” Gryder told the local outlet about the unique parachute he saw.
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I wonder if the FBI checked all missing person reports and Social Security Numbers that went inactive following the hijacking.
What hijacker, in his right mind, after jumping out of an airplane, in the dead of night, in a heavily forested area, is going to pack up his parachute, in pitch darkness, then take it home and hide it? What idiot would do that?
Amazing what the FBI can find when it wants to find it.
What, was the parachute monogramed with DB COOPER, NOTORIOUS HIJACKER?
I’m thinking fraud, with the intent to sell their story and have a book written.
“Let me keep this incriminating parachute at my house. I might need it again.”
Sorry but, if he survived the jump, there is no chance that D.B. Cooper would have gathered up the parachute and taken it home with him. The jump was into an extremely remote, heavily forested area. He would have abandoned it possibly after trying to hide/camouflage it somewhat.
“That rig is literally one in a billion.”
Dan Grider literally head up ass.
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The thinking is that the hijacker had an accomplice on the ground who picked him up. Taking the parachute and unique harness with him deprived the authorities of potential clues to his identity. My guess is that the hijacker also had a walkie talkie, a compass, and a powerful flashlight with him when he jumped.
There some striking pieces of circumstantial evidence pointing to hi. If Cooper lost the money in the jump, then this man’s skyjacking and jump in the next year makes sense as the means to get more money.
Shoulda sent a Hatfield out to look for that hijacker.
The Zodiac and the Black Dahlia Murder both had people come out of the woodwork to claim their father was the person. Good way to sell books.
None. Never, one in a billion/s
Slap a lien on anything the McCoy’s own, and watch the story change on a dime!
Book deal AND cut it up into pieces and sell the pieces, framed with a special certificate like Cristo and Jeanne-Claude did.
D B Cooper is literally Hitler.
I’ve watched several documentaries on this through the years and I think they found pieces of the parachute and some money in the woods where he jumped.
Concur…theory is BS.
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