North Carolina siblings say late father is D.B. Cooper after finding alleged parachute in home: report

A brace of North Carolina siblings judge their precocious begetter is the elusive D.B. Cooper skyjacker who infamously leaped retired of an airplane with $200,000 successful currency during the 1971 heist. 

Chanté and Rick McCoy III assertion their father, Richard McCoy Jr., is the fugitive, aft allegedly uncovering the suspect's parachute hidden successful their home, Cowboy State Daily reported. The lawsuit remains unsolved 53 years later. 

The chartless thief who utilized the sanction Dan Cooper took passengers and unit hostage aboard Northwest Orient Flight 305 earlier jumping retired and disappearing determination betwixt Seattle and Reno, Nevada. Wearing a concern suit, helium passed a enactment to the formation attendant stating helium had a weaponry successful his briefcase and wanted her to beryllium with him.

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A sketch provided by the FBI shows the skyjacker known arsenic "Dan Cooper" oregon "D.B. Cooper." A brace of North Carolina siblings judge their precocious begetter is the infamous hijacker.  (FBI)

Authorities said helium past opened his briefcase to amusement a clump of wires and colored sticks. He allegedly told the formation attendant to instrumentality a enactment to the skipper demanding 4 parachutes and $200,000 successful $20 bills.

The lawsuit would punctual 1 of the longest and astir exhaustive investigations successful FBI history. The McCoys told the Daily that the FBI searched the North Carolina location and took possession of the parachute successful 2023.

They besides said they provided investigators with a illustration of their father's DNA. They said they waited until their mother's decease successful 2020 to travel guardant due to the fact that they feared she could beryllium implicated successful the transgression due to the fact that the alleged parachute utilized by the fishy was wrong the house. 

The McCoy siblings said they’ve known the information astir their begetter for years, but talking astir it remained taboo successful their family.

Aviation YouTuber Dan Gryde, who has seen the parachute, believes it's the 1 utilized successful the heist, according to the outlet. 

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Badly decomposed $20 dollar bills were shown to newsmen aft a cheque of their serial numbers showed that they were identical to the bills fixed to hijacker D.B. Cooper connected November 24, 1971. (Getty Images)

"That rig is virtually 1 successful a billion," Gryder told the siblings, the New York Post reported. 

A stash of wealth was found buried on the Columbia River adjacent Portland, Oregon, successful 1980, but the FBI continued its manhunt.  The lawsuit remains the lone unsolved skyjacking successful U.S. history, with galore absorbing candidates topping the database of suspects.

Fox News Digital has reached retired to the FBI.

Richard McCoy has agelong been 1 of respective suspects by the FBI aft helium pulled a akin hijacking successful Utah 5 months aft the D.B. Cooper incident. He was sentenced to 45 years successful situation for the Utah transgression but aboriginal broke retired of a national situation successful Pennsylvania with 3 different inmates.

Two of the escapees were caught wrong days, but McCoy died 3 months aboriginal successful a shootout with the FBI successful Virginia Beach, Virginia, the Daily reported. 

In 2016, the FBI said it would nary longer actively analyse the case, citing the fig of unit and antheral hours it would instrumentality and the deficiency of credible leads. 

FBI Agents excavation successful soil formation wherever a information of the D.B. Cooper hijack wealth was found. (Getty Images)

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"Every clip the FBI assesses further tips for the NORJAK case, investigative resources and manpower are diverted from programs that much urgently request attention," the bureau said. 

Several imaginable suspects person emerged implicit the years, but they were ne'er tied to the crime. Sheridan Peterson, who was main among the suspects due to the fact that of his emotion for skydiving and taking carnal risks, died successful 2021.