Bombshell new clue may finally crack DB Cooper case 53 years after hijacker escaped out of plane with $200k

The parachute that the infamous hijacker DB Cooper utilized to marque his getaway out of a level with $200,000 whitethorn person yet been found. 

The enigma down DB Cooper, the antheral who jumped retired of Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 with thousands successful currency aft handing a stewardess a enactment demanding the ransom, has agelong stumped the FBI. 

Nearly a decennary later, the FBI has begun unofficially looking backmost into the lawsuit aft the children of Richard Floyd McCoy II contacted YouTuber Dan Gryder successful 2020 with imaginable evidence. 

After Chanté and Richard III 'Rick' McCoy's parent died, they got successful interaction with Gryder - who had bothered them connected and disconnected for years portion doing his ain probe - inviting him to the family's North Carolina spot successful July 2022. 

Inside McCoy's mother's retention was a modified subject surplus bailout rig Gryder believes Cooper utilized successful the heist, helium told Cowboy State Daily. 

'That rig is virtually 1 successful a billion,' helium told the outlet. 

McCoy's children besides hold that their begetter whitethorn person been Cooper, but they refrained from coming guardant with their speculation until their parent died, arsenic they believed she was complicit successful her husband's crime. 

On Monday, Gryder released a video on his YouTube channel, wherever helium announced the FBI had been looking into their newest discoveries.

The amateur researcher said FBI agents contacted him aft watching his archetypal 2 videos, 1 of which shows him discovering the parachute successful the retention location connected the family's property. 

It was the archetypal clip the FBI had made a determination successful the DB Cooper since they had tabled it successful 2016, pending immoderate caller evidence. 

The formation teacher claimed FBI agents met with him and Rick to instrumentality the harness and parachute into evidence, 

They besides were funny successful a logbook Chanté recovered that aligned with Cooper's hijacking implicit Oregon arsenic good arsenic a Utah hijacking McCoy was convicted of that took placed months aft the Cooper case. 

Gryder's person Laura Savino, a retired hose pilot, besides attended the gathering and recalled to Cowboy State Daily that the agents were 'professional and stoic.' 

'Considering they had requested the meeting, it was wide they were taking it seriously,' she said. 

Gryder and McCoy children said the parachute has the unsocial alterations the chutes had successful the Utah hijacking that person been good documented by Earl Cossey, who owned and provided them earlier the 1971 crime. 

The FBI has yet to instrumentality the evidence, starring Gryder to judge their speculations that the parachute was utilized successful the Cooper hijacking. 

A period later, an FBI cause contacted Rick to asked to hunt the household property. Dozens of agents descended connected the Southern spot and searched 'every nook and cranny,' according to Rick. 

From afar, Gryder and Savino watched and documented the hunt that lasted astir 4 hours, according to Cowboy State Daily. 

Rick has besides provided DNA samples to the FBI, but the bureau has yet to update the McCoy household of immoderate developments successful the case. 

McCoy's sanction has been thrown astir among sleuths for years and galore judge the precocious antheral - who died aft escaping situation - is the famed hijacker. 

Many judge this is owed to the adjacent identical heist McCoy pulled disconnected successful Utah conscionable months 5 period aft the Cooper heist. 

In April 1972, McCoy jumped from a United Airlines formation flying implicit Utah aft demanding $500,000. 

Within 72 hours, the FBI arrested him aft matching fingerprints near connected the enactment and an witnesser who worked a roadside edifice recalled selling McCoy a milkshake soon aft the heist.

The FBI raided his location without a warrant, which much than apt didn't let them to pin him for the Cooper heist. 

He was convicted to 45 years successful situation for the Utah heist, but aboriginal broke retired of the maximum information with 3 different prisoners. 

Two were caught wrong days, portion McCoy evaded arrested for 3 months. He was aboriginal changeable by constabulary successful 1974 successful Virginia Beach, Virginia. 

Although it is wide judge McCoy is the culprit of the Oregon heist, but not everyone agrees with the assessment. 

Retired FBI Special Agent, Larry Carr, who took implicit the lawsuit concisely successful 2007, doesn't judge the hijacker could person perchance survived the autumn - adjacent done Gryder has done it successful the past himself. 

Other naysayers accidental that McCoy was excessively young to lucifer the illustration of the antheral believed to beryllium successful his mid-40s who completed the heist. 

Gryder writes those disconnected arsenic McCoy simply wearing a disguise to fell his identity. 

Besides, Gryder is definite the parachute and rig volition beryllium its their guy. 

'This volition decidedly beryllium it was McCoy,' helium told Cowboy State Daily. 

Despite having the evidence, the FBI has not announced immoderate caller changes to the case, but did antecedently contradict existent transgression researcher Eric Ulis' FOIA request, according to a June study by The US Sun. 

He requested the DNA profiles aft Rick provided the FBI with a sample. 

The FBI had tested a clip-on necktie that was near down by Cooper successful 1971, but the hidden spindle built into the knot has yet to beryllium tested. 

Ulis sued the FBI, saying Cooper's DNA could inactive beryllium connected the spindle, but his efforts were unsuccessful. 

A justice threw retired his archetypal FOIA petition for the spindle, and helium filed a 2nd requesting the DNA records, saying: 'We cognize the FBI evidently pursued retesting past twelvemonth by reaching retired to Richard Floyd McCoy's son, truthful they've intelligibly reactivated the case.

'So based connected this caller investigating successful 2023 and the different tests they did successful 2001, the partial DNA they person documented is either successful a bid of lines oregon a series of numbers – and that's intelligibly bureau record.

'When you look astatine the different documents released successful this lawsuit nether FOIA, they contained societal information numbers, truthful determination shouldn't beryllium an excuse that this DNA information is idiosyncratic information.

'I've done a batch of dense lifting successful this lawsuit implicit the past respective years [...] and the lone mode to lick this substance definitively is done DNA testing,' helium concluded. 

His petition was rejected implicit the summer, according to The Sun. 

Ulis believes the mystery hijacker is technologist Vince Petersen from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

Petersen worked arsenic a Boeing subcontractor astatine a titanium works and fits the grounds near down by the infamous hijacker, the DB enthusiast told The Sun. He would person been 52 astatine the clip of the transgression and has been agelong dead.

Ulis - who was 5 erstwhile the plane-jacking occurred - archetypal landed connected Petersen's sanction aft analyzing microscopic grounds near connected the clip-on achromatic necktie DB near earlier helium parachuted retired of the plane.

Several of the particles recovered were accordant with specialty metals utilized successful the aerospace sector, specified arsenic titanium, high-grade stainless alloy and aluminum, Ulis explained.

The sleuth claims helium recovered 'three particles of a precise uncommon alloy of titanium and antimony that person a precise circumstantial balance, a precise circumstantial blend.' 

Ulis past paired the alloy with a US patent fixed to the Boeing subcontractor successful Pittsburg.