North Carolina siblings Chanté and Rick McCoy III believe their late father, Richard McCoy Jr., is the infamous D.B. Cooper, the skyjacker who jumped out of an airplane with $200,000 in cash during a 1971 heist. The siblings claim to have found the suspect’s parachute hidden in their home, leading them to believe their father committed the crime. McCoy was a suspect in the FBI’s investigation and has a history of similar hijackings. However, he died in a shootout with the FBI after escaping from prison.
The FBI had long been investigating the case but in 2016 announced they would no longer actively pursue it due to the lack of credible leads and the resources it required. The case remains unsolved, with many suspects emerging over the years but none being definitively linked to the crime. A stash of money connected to the hijacking was found buried along the Columbia River in 1980. The parachute found by the McCoy siblings is believed to be the one used in the heist by aviation YouTuber Dan Gryde, who called it “one in a billion.”
The McCoys provided investigators with their father’s DNA and shared their story after their mother’s death, feeling they needed to come forward before she could be implicated in the crime. The siblings have long known the truth about their father but kept it a family secret. The case of D.B. Cooper remains one of the most intriguing unsolved mysteries in U.S. history, with the hijacker’s identity still unknown after 53 years.
Source
Photo credit www.foxnews.com