Posted on 11/27/2024 9:36:56 AM PST by bitt
A brother and sister in North Carolina are claiming their late father is the mysterious plane hijacker DB Cooper after finding a parachute in their father’s home.
Rick McCoy III and his sister Chanté claim their father, Richard McCoy Jr., is the notorious plane hijacker who leaped out of Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 with $200,000 after taking crew and passengers hostage in 1971. ...MORE The siblings discovered the parachute in their father’s home years ago but waited until their mother’s death to reveal their findings out of fear their mother could be indicted as an accomplice.
Shortly after their mother’s death, the siblings met with aviation YouTuber Dan Gryder, who analyzed the parachute and believed it was identical to the one Cooper used in 1971.
Gryder stated, “That rig is literally one in a billion.”
Siblings claim late dad is mysterious plane hijacker DB Cooper after finding hidden parachute in home: ‘One in a billion’ https://t.co/8YKyPEbJU1 pic.twitter.com/YZIY5tQWzb
— New York Post (@nypost) November 27, 2024
Per The New York Post:
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.
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So like, where is the money?
The NY Post article is much more informative: https://nypost.com/2024/11/26/us-news/richard-mccoy-jr-s-kids-claim-hes-db-cooper-after-finding-hidden-parachute/
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11/26/2024 9:50:23 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 24 replies
New York Post ^ | Nov. 26, 2024 | Ronny Reyes
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4281128/posts
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https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4280474/posts
So he jumped into a heavily forested area at night and decided to carry his parachute out of the woods?
Not likely.
He didn’t spend it until 2022, and then found out it was only worth a shopping cart worth of groceries.
Maybe he helped people in natural disasters in North Carolina, unlike FEMA.
How long until Meritless Garland comes to confiscate the estate?
In an old box I found a magnetic D and B. That proves someone in my family was D B Cooper.
The parachute was military, and not commonly available.
He looked like the police drawing.
He did hard time for a similar attempted hijacking a few months later.
Adult children claimed it was hinted at, but never spoken of, until mother also died.
He was a prime susoect by FBI, but they didn’t have the parachute.
And which of them can prove their portion of the inheritance wasn't the result of ill gotten gains?
Can they get the kids for withholding/tampering with evidence?
So he jumped into a heavily forested area at night and decided to carry his parachute out of the woods?
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Kept it as a souvenir? Future bragging rights? Was it cold and he ended up using it for a while to keep warm while he was getting out of the forest and then decided “heck, I may as well keep it?”
He left his clip on tie aboard the aircraft. It was finally analyzed and metal alloys were found on the tie... IIRC the alloys were not common and were traced to a lab in Pittsburgh... a certain technician, who went to Seattle on business fairly often. Go look it up, there’s several vids out. Worth the watch... and much more plausible than this tale of a hidden parachute.
The techie from Pittsburgh has long passed. More details on line. I drove all day and am too tired to try and write it all out.
“So he jumped into a heavily forested area at night and decided to carry his parachute out of the woods?”
It may have been a brilliant plan, made it harder to track him
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