After 50 years of mystery, siblings claim hijacker DB Cooper was their
father
Cooper's whereabouts after he jumped from a plane with $200,000
stumped investigators. Has the case been solved?
Now, more than 50 years later, the infamous crime may have been
solved, after a pair of siblings came forward to claim they had found
the parachute used in the hijacking, in their mother's shed, and that
Cooper was their father.
...
...
The suggestion that Richard McCoy may have hijacked the Northwest
Orient Airlines is not as outrageous as it may seem.
McCoy, a former military helicopter pilot who served in the Vietnam
war, was among a number of suspects investigated by the FBI after he
hijacked a plane on 7 April 1972, leaping out of the aircraft with
$500,000 cash, over Provo, Utah. McCoy was arrested two days later and sentenced to 45 years in prison, but he escaped in 1974 - after three
months on the run he was killed by an FBI agent.
Perhaps McCoy died hiding the secret of the DB Cooper hijacking with
him - and 50 years on, the truth may finally have come to light.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/30/db-cooper-plane-hijacking
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