YouTuber’s new evidence draws FBI attention in D.B. Cooper case: Report

[JACK AYLMER]

An amateur investigator claims to have found a piece of evidence that could solve one of America’s greatest mysteries. What happened to D.B. Cooper.

The FBI closed their investigation into the 1971 plane hijacking back in 2016.  Leaving the case unsolved.

A man identified by that name hijacked a plane in the Pacific Northwest. After telling authorities he had a bomb, they gave him the ransom he asked for: $200,000 and four parachutes. After the plane took off again, he vanished and was never found.

Dan Gryder claims he found a modified parachute rig in North Carolina belonging to Richard McCoy – saying the rig is ‘literally one in a billion’. 

McCoy was a former Green Beret who was convicted of hijacking a plane the year after the Cooper incident. Like Cooper, he demanded cash and parachutes as a ransom.

McCoy never admitted to the Cooper hijacking. After being convicted of the second incident, he escaped from prison before F-B-I agents shot and killed him in 1974.His children believe their father *is* Cooper. They reached out to Gryder to give him evidence for his investigative series on YouTube. 

DAN GRYDER: “Some very, very interesting developments in the unsolved mystery of D.B. Cooper. The rig that we found was, in fact, very highly modified.

JACK AYLMER: They say they stayed quiet for decades until their mother died, believing she could also be implicated if the F-B-I investigated McCoy any further.

Wyoming news outlet Cowboy State Daily reports that Gryder and McCoy’s son spoke with F-B-I agents and allowed them to search McCoy’s family property last year. 

The McCoy family turned over the parachute and a skydiving log from their father that lines up with the timeline of both hijackings.

But the FBI has not publicly confirmed or denied whether they have formally reopened the case.

For Straight Arrow News, I’m Jack Aylmer.

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