D.B. Cooper mystery may be solved

D.B. Cooper mystery may be solved


It looks like the D.B. Cooper mystery may be solved. The children of a D.B. Cooper suspect have turned over the parachute and canopy used by their father to the FBI.

Major Points:

* The children of a D.B. Cooper suspect handed over new evidence to the FBI because they think their dad was the culprit.

* A parachute long hidden on family property in North Carolina is said to match the type used in the only unsolved skyjacking in U.S. history.

* The suspect in question was arrested for a similar skyjacking just months following the D.B. Cooper event.

“That rig is literally one in a billion,” Gryder told Cowboy State Daily after releasing a series on YouTube about his suspicions. It was that YouTube series, Gryder said, that drew the FBI back into the case.

According to Gryder, the FBI now has the parachute and harness that were once tucked away in a storage shed on family property in North Carolina, along with a harness and a skydiving logbook that Chanté claims show D.B. Cooper’s movements near Oregon and Utah (the locations of the two skyjacking events). This is the first real movement from the FBI on the case since the bureau closed it in 2016—even if some former personnel claimed it remained secretly open.

McCoy is an intriguing suspect—one who was later passed over because many FBI personnel had come to believe that the real D.B. Cooper died in the jump by the time McCoy surfaced as a possibility. And McCoy didn’t exactly match the physical description, as he was much younger—27 years old at the time—than the original estimation of Cooper’s mid-40s age.

McCoy would have had the have the chops to commit the famous crime, though. He proved it in April of 1972, when he successfully pulled off the skyjacking of a United Airlines flight after demanding $500,000. He boarded the plane in Denver, and was able to get it diverted to San Francisco, have his demands met, and force the plane back into the air. McCoy then jumped from the plane over Utah and was arrested by the FBI within three days, thanks to an anonymous tip. (wonder if his wife turned him in...lol)

A lot more info in the Yahoo News Article located here ...

The parachute matches the one described/used by D.B. Cooper. The suspect is convicted skyjacker Richard McCoy (go figure). His children kept the chute and their fathers' jump logs hidden until after their mother died....out of respect for their mother.

Youtube vid below explains it all. You have to skim a bit because there is a lot of "blah, blah, blah" in it but, it also has some good info. The video was uploaded eight days ago and the uploader states that there will be a bigger channel covering the story...



It will be interesting to see if this case has finally been solved.

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a reply to: blend

Oh, that was an interesting one as well.

I kind of hope it turns out not to be solved.

Just that kind of tale.

RIP DB Cooper, who ever you were.

a reply to: blend

There's still the mystery of what happened to the money, and why some of the bills were found washed up on a beach fairly far from the suspected scene.

a reply to: blend

Dang it you beat me to it! This is one of my favorite mysteries because I am OBSESSED with airplanes. I didn't see this video I'm gonna watch it when I get done at work.

So many cold cases getting solved these past couple years is wonderful.

I think maybe he dropped the money or it fell off of him somehow when he jumped. OR maybe he buried it or some of it.

originally posted by: Shoshanna
I think maybe he dropped the money or it fell off of him somehow when he jumped. OR maybe he buried it or some of it.

Or given that, if he survived and therefore got away with it, he was probably smart enough to throw a wad of notes into the sea to throw his pursuers off his scent.

It’s all lies! Lies I say! It was really Loki on a dare.

db cooper loki pictures comparison