Airliner hijacker D.B. Cooper case, though closed, might resurface - UPI.com
The kids of the main suspect in the 1971 D.B. Cooper hijacking have revealed that an important piece of evidence has been handed over to the FBI. Image provided by FBI Facebook.
On November 26, UPI reported that the long-unraveled mystery surrounding the identity of D.B. Cooper, the infamous airline hijacker from the 1970s, could have been cracked by the offspring of the main suspect, a podcaster, and a recently found parachute.
In 2020, Chante and Richard McCoy III, the children of Richard Floyd McCoy II—who has been the main suspect in the infamous hijacking case—contacted YouTuber Dan Gryder. They wanted to discuss a parachute and a logbook that they discovered on their family's land in 2022, according to a report from Newsweek on Monday.
This relationship resulted in Gryder creating a two-part series for his YouTube channel focusing on D.B. Cooper and the fresh evidence surrounding the case. The parachute in question had a remarkable resemblance to those used on airplanes from the early 1970s, much like the one Cooper used when he leaped from a plane in Washington state back in 1971.
This piqued the interest of the FBI, leading them to reach out to both McCoy III and Gryder for a more detailed examination of the parachute and the logbook.
McCoy II had been the main suspect ever since he was apprehended for a related hijacking five months after the Cooper case. Despite this, law enforcement was unable to gather sufficient proof to press charges against him.
After the passing of their mother, Karen, the McCoy kids sought out Gryder, who sees himself as an expert on the D.B. Cooper case, because they suspected their father might actually be D.B. Cooper. Gryder mentioned that the FBI possesses both the parachute and the logbook.
The FBI has not made any public statements regarding the case, which was officially marked as unresolved in 2016. This incident continues to be the only hijacking in the United States that has yet to be solved.
