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The 50-year-old cold case of D.B. Cooper may have seen a new development after an amateur sleuth claims to have found the parachute used by the infamous, yet still unidentified plane hijacker.
We might know the notorious skyjacker at last—thanks to his own children.
The FBI was flagged in 2008 after a family claimed to have found DB Cooper’s parachute near their Oregon home. AP The agency has said the case was officially closed in 2016 over a lack of leads.
Richard Floyd McCoy Jr. (December 7, 1942 – November 9, 1974) was an American aircraft hijacker.McCoy hijacked a United Airlines passenger jet for ransom in April 1972. . Due to a similar modus operandi, McCoy has been proposed as the person responsible for the November 1971 hijacking of Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, attributed to the still-unidentified "D. B. Coop
D. B. Cooper, also known as Dan Cooper, was an unidentified man who hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, a Boeing 727 aircraft, in United States airspace on November 24, 1971. During the flight from Portland, Oregon , to Seattle , Washington, Cooper told a flight attendant he had a bomb, and demanded $200,000 in ransom (equivalent to ...
However, even they have admitted they have no proof the twenties never made it into circulation, just as there is no proof Cooper died during the jump. IF Cooper did make it, I think he waited six months, and simply exchanged the twenties for "clean" twenties in another city, where the Cooper case was only a blip on the news.
A man who discovered the parachute believes a man who executed a similar hijacking was D.B. Cooper
The Last Master Outlaw: How He Outfoxed the FBI Six Times—but Not a Cold Case Team is a 2016 non-fiction book written by Thomas J. Colbert and Tom Szollosi. It details the results of a five-year investigation of a suspect in the 1971 D. B. Cooper hijacking case.