New evidence handed over to the FBI could identify DB Cooper more than five decades after the infamous skyjacking.
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The Lede
On Thanksgiving Eve in 1971, an unidentified man hijacked a Northwest Orient Airlines flight and demanded $200,000 in ransom money before parachuting into the night, never to be seen again. DB Cooper's case is the only unsolved skyjacking in US history — but new evidence handed over to the FBI by a suspect's children could change all that.
Key Details
- Convicted skyjacker Richard McCoy Jr — who was arrested for a similar plane hijacking months after the DB Cooper incident — was initially a prime suspect in the case, but was later eliminated.
- McCoy's children have long suspected their father was DB Cooper. Now, with both parents deceased, the siblings have turned over a modified parachute that had been stored on the family's property, and which they believe was used in the skyjacking.
- The new evidence is the FBI's best shot at linking McCoy to Cooper.
