DB Cooper is named as Richard McCoy Jr by expert who says he has airtight proof

Infamous airplane hijacker DB Cooper has been unmasked by DNA exertion arsenic a North Carolina begetter called Richard Floyd McCoy Jr, an adept has claimed.

McCoy's children - Chanté and Richard III 'Rick' - contacted YouTube investigator Dan Gryder aft their parent died to confess they believed their parents were down the DB Cooper hijacking mystery.

Now, successful a bombshell update, Gryder told DailyMail.com FBI agents had asked Rick to supply a DNA sample, and that determination were startling results.

Gryder claimed determination are parts of Rick's DNA that lined up 'perfectly' with that of DB Cooper, perchance indicating a partial lucifer of a relative.

The iconic hijacker, whose real identity has agelong remained unknown, commandeered a Boeing 727 astatine Seattle-Tacoma airdrome connected November 24, 1971, and held its unit and passengers hostage with a weaponry threat.

He demanded $200,000 successful currency - the equivalent of $1.2 cardinal today. Once helium got the wealth - and 4 parachutes - helium had the unit instrumentality disconnected earlier sky-diving retired implicit the dense Pacific Northwest woods. From determination helium vanished without a trace.

One of the lone fewer clues of the lawsuit is DNA grounds connected a clip-on necktie that was near connected the level successful 1971. 

There person been galore suspects implicit the years, including Richard Floyd McCoy Jr. who was convicted of an eerily akin hijacking conscionable months aft the Cooper case. 

Considering the similarities betwixt the DNA, Gryder told DailyMail.com investigators are present asking to exhume McCoy's assemblage for testing. 

'All [the McCoy children] were capable to archer america is that there's DNA markers that are present, and they person X magnitude of those that enactment up perfectly similar Swiss food models wherever each the holes successful the Swiss food yet enactment up, but they request much of those markers, and wherever they person fallen down is the quality betwixt the son's DNA and the necktie versus existent Richard Floyd Mccoy,' helium said.

'Undisputable DNA, which would springiness them much of those markers, is what is what they're looking for. That that's wherever they were astatine connected the thing. And that's however travel they've requested to exhume the body, which is simply a immense deal.'

'If the kids volition springiness permission, and they consciousness similar they're that close, that if they could get those last markers to align with what was near connected the airplane compared to Richard Floyd Mccoy himself.' 

When contacted by DailyMail.com astir the DNA testing, the FBI deferred to their July 2016 announcement that they volition nary longer actively analyse the case.

But Gryder, who antecedently revealed however helium discovered a parachute rig helium believes Cooper utilized to flight connected the McCoy household workplace successful North Carolina, said helium has seen FBI agents astatine the property.

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.

They accidental 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 note, and speaking to a witnesser who worked a roadside edifice and 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 the FBI successful 1974 wrong his Virginia Beach home.