The identity of D.B. Cooper may have finally been revealed thanks to a secret parachut in the FBI’s possession.

Because they believe their father was the culprit, the children of a D.B. Cooper suspect turned over fresh evidence to the FBI.
According to reports, a parachute that has been concealed on family land in North Carolina for a long time is the same kind that was utilized in the only unsolved skyjacking in American history.
Only a few months after the D.B. Cooper incident, the defendant in issue was taken into custody for a similar skyjacking.
Convicted skyjacker Richard McCoy II’s daughters thought their beloved father might have been D.B. Cooper, the infamous (and infamously unnamed) main character in the unsolved skyjacking in 1971. In actuality, it’s the only one in American history that hasn’t been addressed—possibly until now.

McCoy was found guilty of a strikingly identical skyjacking that also involved a parachute leap just months after the Cooper incident. Richard III (Rick) and Chanté, his offspring, have long believed that the pieces fit together.

Their fears might now be supported by evidence.

Because they thought their mother, Karen, might have been involved in both crimes, Chanté and Rick had remained silent. However, because both parents have already passed away, the siblings had the chance to voice their suspicions. Importantly, they appear to have concrete proof: a modified parachute that they (together with amateur D.B. Cooper investigator Dan Gryder) think was utilized in the audacious escape.

After publishing a series on YouTube regarding his findings, Gryder told Cowboy State Daily, “That rig is literally one in a billion.” Gryder claimed that the FBI became involved in the case again because of that YouTube series.

In addition to a harness and a skydiving logbook that Chanté says documents D.B. Cooper’s movements near Oregon and Utah (the sites of the two skyjacking incidents), the FBI now has the parachute and harness that were previously hidden away in a storage shed on family property in North Carolina, according to Gryder. Even though several former employees thought the case was still secretly active, this is the first significant action the FBI has taken on it since closing it in 2016.

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Gryder said the FBI contacted the family after obtaining the new evidence and conducted a four-hour search with over a dozen agents on the property where the parachute was kept. The value of the fresh evidence in the lawsuit that has been going on for more than 50 years may be found in the distinctive changes made to the parachute. The FBI is aware that veteran skydiver Earl Cossey, who was employed by the agency until his murder in his home in 2013, changed the original parachutes. The hunt for the actual D.B. Cooper may gain momentum if the new discovery confirms what they already know.

With innumerable theories put up by amateur investigators online, in books, and in movies, the D.B. Cooper case has almost become legendary. D.B. Cooper: The Real McCoy, a book published in the 1990s, even accused McCoy of being the guilty party, but it was taken off the shelves after Karen filed a lawsuit alleging libel.

Due to a lack of rules at the time, D.B. Cooper—who went by Dan, but the media misreported his name as D.B.—paid $18.52 in cash for a one-way ticket to Portland on November 24, 1971, and boarded Northwest Orient Flight 305 without providing any identification.

Halfway through the journey, Cooper, carrying a briefcase and a paper sack, handed a note to a flight attendant sitting behind him and muttered that she had better have a look at it because he had a bomb. After revealing what looked like a bomb in his briefcase, Cooper sent his requests for $200,000, several parachutes, and a refueling truck that was waiting in Seattle so he could depart once more, this time for Mexico City.

The planned 30-minute flight was expanded into a two-hour loop over Puget Sound while ground crews were ready after Cooper’s requests were satisfied. After releasing the 35 passengers and a few crew members, Cooper ordered the remaining crew members to follow the flight path and configure the aircraft, requiring precise speeds, flap angles, and other details. Cooper and the other four crew members resumed their flight when these conversations were concluded.

Cooper then opened the rear stairway and parachuted from the aircraft, though it’s unclear exactly where and when he did so, somewhere still over Washington. Due to the numerous factors involved in the night leap, scientists have been unable to pinpoint a precise search region over the years, and immediate searches produced no proof.

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The FBI has a $1.49 clip-on tie from JCPenney that was one of the few genuine pieces of evidence left by Cooper. To no result, investigators have filed a lawsuit against the government to obtain the DNA and the particles left on the tie.

Possessing the real parachute would greatly increase the amount of evidence in the case.

A fascinating prospect, McCoy was eventually overlooked because, by the time he emerged as a potential suspect, many FBI staff had come to assume that the real D.B. Cooper had died in the leap. Furthermore, McCoy didn’t precisely fit the physical description because he was 27 years old at the time, significantly younger than Cooper’s initial estimated mid-40s age.

However, McCoy would have had the skills necessary to carry out the well-known crime. He demonstrated this in April 1972 when, after requesting $500,000, he was able to successfully skyjack a United Airlines airplane. When he got on the jet in Denver, he managed to force it back into the air, get his demands granted, and have it rerouted to San Francisco. After jumping from the aircraft over Utah, McCoy was apprehended by the FBI three days later as a result of an anonymous tip.Following that tip, the FBI located a teenager who claimed McCoy paid him $5 to drive him from the roadside hamburger stand into a nearby town, as well as a waitress who recalled selling him a milkshake on the night of the skyjacking. His fingerprints were eventually found to match those on the demand note.

Following an FBI raid on McCoy’s residence, he was taken into custody. After being found guilty and given a 45-year prison term, he managed to escape from a maximum-security facility and elude arrest for three months until being shot by Virginia police in 1974.

The best opportunity to find evidence that might connect McCoy and Cooper is through the parachute. “This will undoubtedly demonstrate that it was McCoy,” Gryder stated.