@@Con-DoeIf the FBI ever investigated him, he was cleared 100% if his prints didn't match the numerous prints the hijacker left in his seating area on the plane.
Why would DB Cooper jump out of a plane in Oregon, then haul that parachute across America, risk capture and being connected to the hijacking, rather than just burying it where he landed? The simplest answer is usually the best answer. This is the simplest answer: He jumped out of the plane and was killed as a result of the landing A secondary answer: He survived and went into hiding with a different name. This is a more complicated answer: He survived, he kept his parachute, hauled that parachute where ever he went, facing the possibilty of being connected to the hijacking in a police encounter at his residence.
I've always maintained it was Richard Floyd McCoy, Jr. There were too many unpublished facts about the first hijacking that overlapped with the second. There's just no way he would have followed the same precise method of operation, unless he hijacked both planes.
@@scottodonnell7121 I've watched a couple documentaries showing them pursuing Rackstraw. He had a similar paratrooper background as McCoy, jumped out of the rear stairs in 727s for the CIA in Vietnam, plus he had an axe to grind on how he left the service. In the end, they ruled him out, and he's also deceased now. What I can't believe is no one identified McCoy when I've seen cases of sketches so off still leading to the actual suspect.
Keeping the parachute would be ridiculous. Evidence like the would be disposed of immediately, not carried home when everyone was looking for a parachutist, what a stupid idea,
The airplane crew was shown McCoys picture, and they said it was not DB Cooper. McCoy was 27 at the time! Witnesses said DB Cooper was mid-40's,+ ????? Also, McCoys hijacking was sloppy compared to DB Cooper's hijacking? Seems like 2 different people!
It wasn't the same guy. McCoy was not Cooper and that has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt and anyone who won't accept the overwhelming evidence showing that they are different people wear tinfoil hats. There was a time when I thought they were the same person but the fact that McCoy's movements can all be accounted for during the time of the Cooper skyjacking is the biggest pice of evidence that they are not the same person.
The money was lost in the first Jump - lack of cord and bags sturdy enough for the exit (wind) DB did the 2nd attempt for that reason. Some of the money was found on a sandbar - Colombia River
@Con-Doe you clearly have no idea what you're talking about so you need to be quiet the money was lost during the jump? No some of the money was lost during the jump that's why some of the money was found next to the river. And the rest of the money has never been found
@@gnlout here is a great example: everyone at the airport, from the ticket agent to the stewardesses, was shown a picture of McCoy and every single one of them said that it was not McCoy. Go read the wikipedia.
@@gnlout everyone from the airport who dealt with cooper was shown a picture of McCoy and every single one of them said that McCoy was definitely not Cooper. how could all of the eyewitnesses have been so unanimously wrong?
Read the book INTO the BLAST, The True Story of DB Cooper by Skipp Pourteous and Rober Blevins. They make a rather compelling case that DB Cooper was Kenny Christiansen. A NW employee and former US Army paratrooper. Mr. Christiansen died with a sizeable estate even though his family had no idea how he made that kind of money.
Misinformation on this McCoy. The real D.B. Cooper was Richard “Mac” McCoy who served with F Co., 51st LRP (Airborne) Infantry. He visited me while doing a documentary on the unit “Silent Victory.
It's odd that this guy is always referred to as DB Cooper because on his plane ticket there was no B in his name. Just D Cooper. There was no DB Cooper so it made sense that the FBI closed the case on DB Cooper but the case for D Cooper was never mentioned. I wonder if the case for D Cooper is still open and why does everyone refer to him as DB Cooper?
What’s even more odd is that back in the 80s there was a restaurant in Westwood California called DB Cooper’s. It was literally named after the hijacker’s incorrect name, lol. I knew a guy that was a waiter there and I used to give him rides to work.
Never know.... People have been arrested after 50 years for shit. Somebody just got arrested for a murder last year committed in the 80s... Case was on unsolved mysteries too... Never say never
right. its definitely not the guy who looks exactly like the sketch, who hijacked the same kind of plane five months later, and whos son has a parachute matching the modified one cooper used. nope.
@@gnlout Your argument leans too heavily on circumstantial evidence without offering any real proof. Saying someone “looks exactly like the sketch” doesn’t hold much weight when eyewitness sketches are often unreliable, and countless suspects over the years have been claimed to match it. Hijacking the same type of plane doesn’t prove anything either, as hijackings were alarmingly common in the 1970s and can’t be uniquely tied to DB Cooper. As for the claim about his son having a parachute that matches Cooper’s, that’s incredibly vague, parachutes were widely available, and there’s no evidence directly connecting it to the hijacking. Without physical evidence or a direct link to the crime, this argument is pure speculation. Yep.
It is not known exactly what parachute Cooper jumped with. The possible canopy sizes ranged from 24 to 28 feet. It is known that he used a military parachute though.
Those last two cost way more money than they’d pay. Maybe being a pilot could make money but it’s very expensive to get your license. And I don’t think skydiving is like a, paying job maybe. Not sure hahaha. But it adds up honestly.
@@thewatcher5271 I have known several men who have had to mortgage their house to pay for gambling debts. If one consumes lots of alcohol, uses illegal drugs and gambles, it is very easy to get into a lot of debt.
A friend worked at a bank in Minneapolis MN. when this happened and some of the DB Cooper money came through her Bank. They had all the serial numbers to check with. So, at least someone had and was spending DB...money despite what the FBI says. It was a big deal for my friend as she was questioned for hours....It was not DB she said....
There is a huge problem here. If the FBI ever looked at this guy, they compared his prints to the numerous prints D B Cooper left on the plane where he sat. A backpack isn't going to make the prints match. This guy was not the hijacker.
The fictional Mister Cooper did not secure the briefcase well, and the handle separated as the case flew apart. The fictional Mister Cooper only held a few bills when he landed.
I’d of asked for One Million dollars not 200 thousand. Got to make your efforts worth while. In any scenario such as this it’s key to tell no one / trust no one. Great video.
The real suspect knew you could open the rear stairs on the plane while it was flying. Not many people would know this with such certainty to bet their freedom on it.
@@avlifesavers it was actually common knowledge among people who worked in the aeronautical field or plane enthusiasts. Cooper has always been suspected to have worked in this field.
Better plot twist: Dan Cooper never parachuted at all. Plane lands in Reno, NV and Cooper walks off the lowered 727 aft staircase and disappears into the night. On his person, he has the money, a parachute, an attaché case, and his stewardess notes.
He did not have his own parachute. First he only came aboard with a briefcase. Second, he asked for four parachutes & used two of them so they know exactly which ones he took. If he had his own then all four would’ve still be on the plane.
@@kenyattaclay7666 Yea, like getting on a commercial airliner with a parachute is something people wouldn't notice and certainly wouldn't raise suspicions with people. 😅
@@antonyreyn No he couldn't because he didn't have his own parachute. He ONLY had a briefcase with him. However McCoy did bring his own parachute. Also, McCoy was an experienced airborne ranger. Even though when I was in the Army they tried to get me to go to jump school and I didn't I do know one thing about people who are airborne, they don't just use any old parachute.
@@kenyattaclay7666 gryder has been accused of getting the description of the chute wrong. seems like there are different people saying different things. apparently no sn# recorded as well. strange. but if the parachute doesnt match, do you think its therefore not McCoy?
@ as far as the parachutes go the serial number doesn’t matter because you can just look at it and tell that it’s not the one given to Cooper. Air Force & Navy parachutes have different designs that can be seen by the naked eye. As for McCoy himself, authorities know his whereabouts almost to the minute in the days before, during & after the Cooper skyjacking. It is impossible that McCoy is Cooper. McCoy was either in class at BYU, hosting thanksgiving dinner or in Vegas during all of those times. There are receipts & several witnesses to this fact for each of those. No matter how much people want it to be, it’s just not.
@@kenyattaclay7666 you've heard that his sister in law changed her story about his and karens whereabouts when she was babysitting over thanksgiving.? also if he would have been injured in the jump, how did he jump from flight 855 without breaking his ankles?
that now makes "cents" - his wife was his accomplice. So she probably already arrived in her vehicle to the general region of where DB was gonna jump. maybe he had some flares with him that she could see from the sky?! or she had some flares with her - so he could find his wife/their car faster! i never thought of an accomplice because no one ever mentioned once - as we assumed since he jumped alone - DB was therefore in this by himself. but we didnt know...
You seriously need to learn about the case because what you said is impossible. DB Cooper jumped in the middle of a forest, nowhere near a road, not even knowing exactly where he was using parachutes that couldn’t be guided. Cooper also didn’t have proper equipment or gear for jumping at that time of year or into a forest. If he didn’t think ahead enough to at least have proper gear do you really think he would’ve thought about all of that?
First let me point out that most crimes don’t have DNA. Through TV shows like CSI or TH-cam videos people think there’s always DNA but it’s not. Second, even in the decades old cases like this one they have to be EXTREMELY lucky to have any usable DNA if any at all. The methods for persevering evidence didn’t exist the way it does now. Sometimes natural disasters have destroyed evidence. Then sometimes evidence was either lost or destroyed because they didn’t think it had value & had limited space. Finally in this case there’s a combination of lost evidence such as the cigarette butts a the times in which this happened. In 1971 the ONLY way to track someone on a flight was through the manifest but you didn’t have to show an ID and could give any name you wanted. He also jumped from a moving plane in the middle of the night in the middle of the forest. Even if they knew the exact time & location where he jumped do you realize how difficult it is to find a body or evidence in a forest. If this had happened even just ten years later they would’ve had a lot more to go on because of changes in general airport security but this isn’t like you see on TV. They can’t just come up with DNA evidence that isn’t there & the little that they had was inconclusive.
The only way to solve this case is to track where the rest of the money ended up. If it is at the bottom of the Colombia river this case will most likely not get solved
Why would he do it again if he was successful with the first hijacking? Doesn’t make sense. Second one could have been a copycat crime. Gianni Russo admitted that he was DB…
I thought this was solved years ago when we found out his real name is Charles Westmoreland and he was doing time in Fox River Penitentiary in Illinois. Before he died tin the infirmary, he was trying to escape with the mastermind Michael Scofield and the Fox River Seven?
@@larrybaker5316 yes he might look similar but so did about a dozen other suspects. However McCoy was roughly 15 - 20 younger than what Cooper was said to be and that parachute is NOT the same as the one that was given to Cooper. This was proven within hours of that video.
another year another CB cooper solution ....over and over year after year.same for jack the ripper,Amelia Earhart etc....somebody always wanting to make a buck
ist proove that McCoy was in the PNW at the time. second the fact that McCoy hijacked a plane that the harness and chute might have been from this attempt
And how did Gryder know those vehicles were from the FBI? The answer is simple to anyone who has ever watched his videos on various "investigations." He speculates and gives no proof. He also claimed he was diving at the spot of a jet crash in Tennessee while others were investigating the crash. Problems with his made-up story was that the area was surrounded by other boats and search parties at the supposed time was also diving. But not one of them was seen in his video. The guy also stole a airport light during another one of his "investigations" and basically tampered with an official investigation. And last, but not least, he was recently found guilty of defamation and has to pay a million dollars to the family. He is nothing but an egotistical attention seeker.
Mckoy was a parachuterbabd could easily buy war surplus parachutes, which could easily be similar. And its unlikely the parachute in Oregon could have been retrieved... Cooper didnt even exit with all the cash... Realistically, Mckoy copied Dan Cooper.b
Seriously think anyone would keep a giant piece of evidence like that? He left some cash behind on the riverbank but held tight to the parachute? Someone once told me the police sketch looks like Pee Wee Herman. That's just a plausible as this story.
You might as well say that Nixon couldn't possibly have been stupid enough to hang on to the tapes that incriminated him. But Nixon had his reasons for preserving the tapes and McCoy could have had reasons for preserving the parachute -- possibly to support a deathbed confession before dying, he hoped, of natural causes. Suppose you'd pulled this off and fooled the authorities. Would it really be that easy to remain silent? You'd want to boast to someone as soon as it became safe to do so. Also I think that the sketch resembles McCoy a lot more than it resembles Pee Wee Herman.
the airline stewardess interviewed from Unsolved Mysteries said they made a mistake drawing the sketch of DB Cooper. The hairline and/or ears were different i think. thats probably what did it overall - wrong sketch = means looking for the wrong suspects..
@@65if2007 Exactly. We’re not talking about the voice of reason here. We’re talking about a guy that’s far enough in left field to board a plane with a fake bomb, calmly make his demands known, stay cool while they meet said demands, make a night jump in the middle of nowhere with the money in freezing weather at high altitude and extreme airspeed, then disappear without a trace into the night. He’s not going to get any awards for reasonable behavior.
Do you think the D.B. Cooper mystery will get solved?
@@GrungeHQ Possibly but every day that passes the trail gets colder.
No.
No. And it was never DB Cooper until the media made that up. It was Dan Cooper.
you are a faker
No.
I actually watched Dan’s videos on this case…. I really think he’s done something that the fbi couldn’t. It’s very compelling evidence
it's the wrong style parachute
The one he found it was modified by McCoy . Its all there, watch the deep fbi secrets series.
@@austintaylor6152 oh ok. That shows you how little I know. Thanks for clearing that up for me
Dan did the exact same jump. He's a pilot also - The FBI has always been chasing their tails
@@Con-DoeIf the FBI ever investigated him, he was cleared 100% if his prints didn't match the numerous prints the hijacker left in his seating area on the plane.
Why would DB Cooper jump out of a plane in Oregon, then haul that parachute across America, risk capture and being connected to the hijacking, rather than just burying it where he landed?
The simplest answer is usually the best answer.
This is the simplest answer: He jumped out of the plane and was killed as a result of the landing
A secondary answer: He survived and went into hiding with a different name.
This is a more complicated answer: He survived, he kept his parachute, hauled that parachute where ever he went, facing the possibilty of being connected to the hijacking in a police encounter at his residence.
You really think he was dumb enough to use his real name to begin with?
I've always maintained it was Richard Floyd McCoy, Jr. There were too many unpublished facts about the first hijacking that overlapped with the second. There's just no way he would have followed the same precise method of operation, unless he hijacked both planes.
Agreed he was him in my opinion.
It is compelling but his photo was shown to the stewardess, ticket agent, and the guy that sat next to him. They all said that wasn’t him.
I thought it was a Vietnam vet named Robert Rackstraw that id believed to be DB Cooper.
@@scottodonnell7121 I've watched a couple documentaries showing them pursuing Rackstraw. He had a similar paratrooper background as McCoy, jumped out of the rear stairs in 727s for the CIA in Vietnam, plus he had an axe to grind on how he left the service. In the end, they ruled him out, and he's also deceased now.
What I can't believe is no one identified McCoy when I've seen cases of sketches so off still leading to the actual suspect.
Cooper drank Bourbon and smoked. McCoy drank soda and didn't . Cooper was a lot smarter than McCoy
FBI is embarrassed and should be
They have a lot to be embarrassed by🤷♀️
Keeping the parachute would be ridiculous. Evidence like the would be disposed of immediately, not carried home when everyone was looking for a parachutist, what a stupid idea,
They finally found DB Cooper's parachute. Now let's get to work on that missing Bigfoot suit...
The airplane crew was shown McCoys picture, and they said it was not DB Cooper. McCoy was 27 at the time! Witnesses said DB Cooper was mid-40's,+ ????? Also, McCoys hijacking was sloppy compared to DB Cooper's hijacking? Seems like 2 different people!
The FBI won't admit who DB Cooper is until they can claim credit for solving the case.
If it was the same guy who died in the shootout, he was a real idiot for trying the same hijacking thing 2x
Why?
It wasn't the same guy. McCoy was not Cooper and that has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt and anyone who won't accept the overwhelming evidence showing that they are different people wear tinfoil hats. There was a time when I thought they were the same person but the fact that McCoy's movements can all be accounted for during the time of the Cooper skyjacking is the biggest pice of evidence that they are not the same person.
The money was lost in the first Jump - lack of cord and bags sturdy enough for the exit (wind) DB did the 2nd attempt for that reason. Some of the money was found on a sandbar - Colombia River
dad told me 1 time that prisons are full of smart guys...i.e. they thought they were smart enough to not get caught....
@Con-Doe you clearly have no idea what you're talking about so you need to be quiet the money was lost during the jump? No some of the money was lost during the jump that's why some of the money was found next to the river. And the rest of the money has never been found
Dan Gryder’s claims have already been debunked.
example?
@@gnlout navy and air force parachutes are different. Cooper was given one & the one found in the home was another. The parachutes are not the same.
@@gnlout here is a great example: everyone at the airport, from the ticket agent to the stewardesses, was shown a picture of McCoy and every single one of them said that it was not McCoy. Go read the wikipedia.
If it was McCoy don't you think Tina Mucklow would have been definitively and easily able to confirm or rule this out?
I tend to take Gryder with a grain of salt.
ok but do you think mccoy was cooper?
A full salt shaker.🙄
Another FBI/Government fluffer. Get off your knees.
@@gnlout everyone from the airport who dealt with cooper was shown a picture of McCoy and every single one of them said that McCoy was definitely not Cooper. how could all of the eyewitnesses have been so unanimously wrong?
Read the book INTO the BLAST, The True Story of DB Cooper by Skipp Pourteous and Rober Blevins. They make a rather compelling case that DB Cooper was Kenny Christiansen. A NW employee and former US Army paratrooper. Mr. Christiansen died with a sizeable estate even though his family had no idea how he made that kind of money.
@@MrTony3255-is8gd I read the book and the thing that really bothered me was the physical description simply did not match, especially the hair.
I clicked away as soon as I heard the name Dan Grider.
Misinformation on this McCoy. The real D.B. Cooper was Richard “Mac” McCoy who served with F Co., 51st LRP (Airborne) Infantry. He visited me while doing a documentary on the unit “Silent Victory.
If Dan Gryder was any more full of shit you could rent him out to construction sites.
hes right about cooper adn mccoy
@@gnlout Earl Cossey was full of sh*t , Dan should know that.
@@billb89 ok?
@gnlout Bruce A. Smith debunked most of this years ago.
@@billb89 i'll give him a listen
It's odd that this guy is always referred to as DB Cooper because on his plane ticket there was no B in his name. Just D Cooper. There was no DB Cooper so it made sense that the FBI closed the case on DB Cooper but the case for D Cooper was never mentioned. I wonder if the case for D Cooper is still open and why does everyone refer to him as DB Cooper?
What’s even more odd is that back in the 80s there was a restaurant in Westwood California called DB Cooper’s. It was literally named after the hijacker’s incorrect name, lol. I knew a guy that was a waiter there and I used to give him rides to work.
Our press in action. Some dumas reporter puts him down as DB Cooper, it gets printed, and sticks.
@@debr4613 A miscommunication resulted in fact. Not that Dan was his real name either.
Ain't nobody getting caught for this 😂
Never know.... People have been arrested after 50 years for shit. Somebody just got arrested for a murder last year committed in the 80s... Case was on unsolved mysteries too... Never say never
Im pretty sure diddy did it.
@@sab3295 statue of limitations?
well then fine, YOU DID IT!!! and eye report you now not to "national fbi" but to my local police station aka sherriffs office!
@@FFA441 diddy do it oar knot?
I don’t think they’ll *ever* solve that case.
You didn’t watch the video did you? You really should watch the video.
it's been confirmed that DB Cooper is Loki Laufeyson. It's been solved for a long time now.
@@JacobJohnson-lh4gxna
right. its definitely not the guy who looks exactly like the sketch, who hijacked the same kind of plane five months later, and whos son has a parachute matching the modified one cooper used.
nope.
@@gnlout Your argument leans too heavily on circumstantial evidence without offering any real proof. Saying someone “looks exactly like the sketch” doesn’t hold much weight when eyewitness sketches are often unreliable, and countless suspects over the years have been claimed to match it. Hijacking the same type of plane doesn’t prove anything either, as hijackings were alarmingly common in the 1970s and can’t be uniquely tied to DB Cooper. As for the claim about his son having a parachute that matches Cooper’s, that’s incredibly vague, parachutes were widely available, and there’s no evidence directly connecting it to the hijacking. Without physical evidence or a direct link to the crime, this argument is pure speculation. Yep.
It is not known exactly what parachute Cooper jumped with. The possible canopy sizes ranged from 24 to 28 feet. It is known that he used a military parachute though.
How can you be financially insecure being a vet, helicopter pilot and skydiver.
By spending more money than you make
Those last two cost way more money than they’d pay. Maybe being a pilot could make money but it’s very expensive to get your license. And I don’t think skydiving is like a, paying job maybe. Not sure hahaha. But it adds up honestly.
He was not financially insecure. That was a false narrative. He was a thief and criminal. Greed motivated him.
Gambling, Women, The Home Shopping Network, ETC.!?! It Can Happen To Anyone. Thank You. (Reply #4)
@@thewatcher5271 I have known several men who have had to mortgage their house to pay for gambling debts. If one consumes lots of alcohol, uses illegal drugs and gambles, it is very easy to get into a lot of debt.
Y’all are wrong. Look at the D.B. Cooper sketch. It was Kevin Spacey
Looks like they’re gonna have to do an update of that episode of “In Search Of…”.
That was a phenomenal show
A friend worked at a bank in Minneapolis MN. when this happened and some of the DB Cooper money came through her Bank. They had all the serial numbers to check with. So, at least someone had and was spending DB...money despite what the FBI says. It was a big deal for my friend as she was questioned for hours....It was not DB she said....
There is a huge problem here. If the FBI ever looked at this guy, they compared his prints to the numerous prints D B Cooper left on the plane where he sat. A backpack isn't going to make the prints match. This guy was not the hijacker.
This will never be solved unless someone comes forward on their deathbed and can prove it... otherwise hes probably already dead.
I think someone did come forward on their deathbed, claiming they were DB cooper. That’s the story anyway…
There have been about a dozen people to come forward on their death beds & all of them were crackpots.
death beads🤭
I’d like to think he made it and is sitting on a beach somewhere having a drink and a cigar with people who have no idea what he did or who he was
Not necessarily. Other evidence could possibly come to light.
The fictional Mister Cooper did not secure the briefcase well, and the handle separated as the case flew apart.
The fictional Mister Cooper only held a few bills when he landed.
During the hijacking DB Copper was given military parachutes, he was in the Utah National Guard. DUH
I do not think Richard McCoy is D.B. Cooper because they said that he was 42-48 as suppose to McCoy who was 28 or 29
Come on, it's not even December yet, the biannual new D. B. Cooper story isn't due until next month!
Clearly it’s Kevin Spacey. Kevin Spacey is DB Cooper! Easy to see now the sunglasses are removed. Should have done that to begin with. Case solved!!
You sure it wasn't Ted Cruz....I mean after all..he was The Zod...
Way to revive an old mystery and only add more questions😂😂😂
DB Cooper was really Elvis. It all makes sense now.
Why does this matter now it happened over 50 years ago and chances of this guy still being alive are slim to none.
I’d of asked for One Million dollars not 200 thousand.
Got to make your efforts worth while. In any scenario such as this it’s key to tell no one / trust no one.
Great video.
@@archstanton3763 inflation-adjusted it would be 1.5 million in today's dollars.
The real suspect knew you could open the rear stairs on the plane while it was flying. Not many people would know this with such certainty to bet their freedom on it.
@@avlifesavers it was actually common knowledge among people who worked in the aeronautical field or plane enthusiasts. Cooper has always been suspected to have worked in this field.
Plot twist: DB had his own parachute on board. The FBI parachutes were just to throw them off his scent even more when they were eventually found.
Better plot twist:
Dan Cooper never parachuted at all.
Plane lands in Reno, NV and Cooper walks off the lowered 727 aft staircase and disappears into the night.
On his person, he has the money, a parachute, an attaché case, and his stewardess notes.
He did not have his own parachute. First he only came aboard with a briefcase. Second, he asked for four parachutes & used two of them so they know exactly which ones he took. If he had his own then all four would’ve still be on the plane.
@@kenyattaclay7666
Yea, like getting on a commercial airliner with a parachute is something people wouldn't notice and certainly wouldn't raise suspicions with people. 😅
@@kenyattaclay7666 I'm not saying he had his own but he could have just chucked any out the plane when he jumped
@@antonyreyn No he couldn't because he didn't have his own parachute. He ONLY had a briefcase with him. However McCoy did bring his own parachute. Also, McCoy was an experienced airborne ranger. Even though when I was in the Army they tried to get me to go to jump school and I didn't I do know one thing about people who are airborne, they don't just use any old parachute.
Do we have a film or documentary on DB Cooper? This information is compelling!
Chael Sonnen knows the real DB COOPER.
*The Money Was Never Spent!*
thats cuz he lost it when he parachuted. watch dans videos.
Nothing new here. Gryder essentially made this up.
nope. it was obviously mccoy
@@gnlout nope, it’s not the same parachute.
@@kenyattaclay7666 gryder has been accused of getting the description of the chute wrong. seems like there are different people saying different things. apparently no sn# recorded as well. strange.
but if the parachute doesnt match, do you think its therefore not McCoy?
@ as far as the parachutes go the serial number doesn’t matter because you can just look at it and tell that it’s not the one given to Cooper. Air Force & Navy parachutes have different designs that can be seen by the naked eye.
As for McCoy himself, authorities know his whereabouts almost to the minute in the days before, during & after the Cooper skyjacking. It is impossible that McCoy is Cooper. McCoy was either in class at BYU, hosting thanksgiving dinner or in Vegas during all of those times. There are receipts & several witnesses to this fact for each of those. No matter how much people want it to be, it’s just not.
@@kenyattaclay7666 you've heard that his sister in law changed her story about his and karens whereabouts when she was babysitting over thanksgiving.?
also if he would have been injured in the jump, how did he jump from flight 855 without breaking his ankles?
DB Cooper is in New Mexico and frequently comments on KRQE TH-cam videos. Look it up.
Is that so? What’s his username
New details......ah ha ha ha ha ha.....oh wait, you're serious, let me laugh even harder. AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Sigma?
So they didn't reopen? Because a mainstream headline said they did last week, that's y I watched this video, cause I was curious
that now makes "cents" - his wife was his accomplice. So she probably already arrived in her vehicle to the general region of where DB was gonna jump. maybe he had some flares with him that she could see from the sky?! or she had some flares with her - so he could find his wife/their car faster! i never thought of an accomplice because no one ever mentioned once - as we assumed since he jumped alone - DB was therefore in this by himself. but we didnt know...
You seriously need to learn about the case because what you said is impossible. DB Cooper jumped in the middle of a forest, nowhere near a road, not even knowing exactly where he was using parachutes that couldn’t be guided. Cooper also didn’t have proper equipment or gear for jumping at that time of year or into a forest. If he didn’t think ahead enough to at least have proper gear do you really think he would’ve thought about all of that?
With all the DNA crimes we got? Solved crimes hundreds years ago and can't solved this really?
First let me point out that most crimes don’t have DNA. Through TV shows like CSI or TH-cam videos people think there’s always DNA but it’s not.
Second, even in the decades old cases like this one they have to be EXTREMELY lucky to have any usable DNA if any at all. The methods for persevering evidence didn’t exist the way it does now. Sometimes natural disasters have destroyed evidence. Then sometimes evidence was either lost or destroyed because they didn’t think it had value & had limited space.
Finally in this case there’s a combination of lost evidence such as the cigarette butts a the times in which this happened. In 1971 the ONLY way to track someone on a flight was through the manifest but you didn’t have to show an ID and could give any name you wanted. He also jumped from a moving plane in the middle of the night in the middle of the forest. Even if they knew the exact time & location where he jumped do you realize how difficult it is to find a body or evidence in a forest.
If this had happened even just ten years later they would’ve had a lot more to go on because of changes in general airport security but this isn’t like you see on TV. They can’t just come up with DNA evidence that isn’t there & the little that they had was inconclusive.
The only way to solve this case is to track where the rest of the money ended up. If it is at the bottom of the Colombia river this case will most likely not get solved
Why would he do it again if he was successful with the first hijacking? Doesn’t make sense. Second one could have been a copycat crime. Gianni Russo admitted that he was DB…
I thought this was solved years ago when we found out his real name is Charles Westmoreland and he was doing time in Fox River Penitentiary in Illinois. Before he died tin the infirmary, he was trying to escape with the mastermind Michael Scofield and the Fox River Seven?
Composite drawing and McCoy mug shot looks eerily similar, and with 1 of the original parachutes at his home, sounds like he did it.
@@larrybaker5316 yes he might look similar but so did about a dozen other suspects. However McCoy was roughly 15 - 20 younger than what Cooper was said to be and that parachute is NOT the same as the one that was given to Cooper. This was proven within hours of that video.
It’s Jimmy James. Case Closed.
D B Cooper would be in his 90s now. He never made through that night in 1971.
BWAHAHAHAHA
You'll never get me coppers !
Has anybody noticed the UFO in the background at 3:17. It doesn't move while the vehicles underneath are 😮
DB Cooper hijacked the UFO and escaped to Mars.😊
All wrong ! DB Cooper was Charles Westmoreland. Michael Scofield figured this out years ago ! (Source - Prison Break)
Ever notice the resemblance between Cooper and l.h.oswald?
They all have serial numbers just look it up before you start the speculation . Then test the tie
They tested the tie years ago & there wasn’t enough to come up with a full profile & what they were able to come up with was inconclusive.
they apparently didnt record the serial number of the chute. crazy.
DB Cooper is living off the grid with Elvis and Amelia Earhart.
Chael P Sonnen has the real story on DB Cooper
another year another CB cooper solution ....over and over year after year.same for jack the ripper,Amelia Earhart etc....somebody always wanting to make a buck
I picked up.the money fot this old boieling guy..really...but.his bow tire gave me away..ck in Ron in washington..working southwest at that time
It's nice to at least hear some of Gryders bullslhit without hearing a banjo.
So basically we know not much more of anything... go it!
If he’s basing anything off of Earl Cossey, he’s found nothing of substance.
How does one keep the parachute but leave behind the loot.. bogus.
Unfortunately, now this man is going to mysteriously croak…
It was William Smith for sure. Gryder probably had loads of chutes.
ist proove that McCoy was in the PNW at the time. second the fact that McCoy hijacked a plane that the harness and chute might have been from this attempt
Dan Cooper! Dan Cooper! Say it with me. Dan Cooper. There was no D.B. Cooper.
I know who Cooper was.
And McCoy and his wife spent a few days in vegas to do some um laundry.
Y would he keep the parachute….
Ok 👌
just like how a killer or serial killer keeps something from his dead victim - as a trophy to remember the event over and over again.
That was my immediate thought when I saw this. No reason to keep the parachute.
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Not talking about a reasonable person here. He had to be a real wack job to try this at all.
why would he carry the parachute all the way through the wilderness and kept in his house. very heavy and so is money. ex 82nd
And how did Gryder know those vehicles were from the FBI? The answer is simple to anyone who has ever watched his videos on various "investigations." He speculates and gives no proof. He also claimed he was diving at the spot of a jet crash in Tennessee while others were investigating the crash. Problems with his made-up story was that the area was surrounded by other boats and search parties at the supposed time was also diving. But not one of them was seen in his video. The guy also stole a airport light during another one of his "investigations" and basically tampered with an official investigation. And last, but not least, he was recently found guilty of defamation and has to pay a million dollars to the family. He is nothing but an egotistical attention seeker.
Yall are all wrong. I’m still alive and I live in mexico
The FBI solve more than they don’t.
McCoy is NOT DB Cooper.
The sketch is DEAD ON a match for McCoy.
@@Derpy1969 A) it’s not a dead on match & B) several of the other suspects also match the sketch.
He never left the plane till it landed.
Dude... we've wasted far more money looking for this guy than he actually stole... Stop, just stop.
Mckoy was a parachuterbabd could easily buy war surplus parachutes, which could easily be similar. And its unlikely the parachute in Oregon could have been retrieved... Cooper didnt even exit with all the cash... Realistically, Mckoy copied Dan Cooper.b
DB was really Jimi Hofa it was how the mafia threw the FBI off their trail, set up the whole bank robbery thing 😅
"Olive Drab" not Drag
I thought they closed the case years ago
The Butler did it.
Hope they never solve this case...this person belongs up there with John Dillinger and Jessie James..JD Cooper is an American legend
JD ?
my dad..former 101st airborne fmr. p.o w. Korea...was d.b.cooper
Amazing story
Yup it was McCoy
@@cato451 it has been throughly proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Cooper & McCoy were two different people.
@ oh bummer. I thought for sure that was closed.
He did not survive the jump the backpack IS A BOGUS CREATION OR PLANTED
How did he hang on to all of that $ and stuff
he didnt. he lost it in the jump
Seriously think anyone would keep a giant piece of evidence like that?
He left some cash behind on the riverbank but held tight to the parachute?
Someone once told me the police sketch looks like Pee Wee Herman. That's just a plausible as this story.
You might as well say that Nixon couldn't possibly have been stupid enough to hang on to the tapes that incriminated him.
But Nixon had his reasons for preserving the tapes and McCoy could have had reasons for preserving the parachute -- possibly to support a deathbed confession before dying, he hoped, of natural causes.
Suppose you'd pulled this off and fooled the authorities. Would it really be that easy to remain silent? You'd want to boast to someone as soon as it became safe to do so.
Also I think that the sketch resembles McCoy a lot more than it resembles Pee Wee Herman.
the airline stewardess interviewed from Unsolved Mysteries said they made a mistake drawing the sketch of DB Cooper. The hairline and/or ears were different i think. thats probably what did it overall - wrong sketch = means looking for the wrong suspects..
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Exactly. We’re not talking about the voice of reason here. We’re talking about a guy that’s far enough in left field to board a plane with a fake bomb, calmly make his demands known, stay cool while they meet said demands, make a night jump in the middle of nowhere with the money in freezing weather at high altitude and extreme airspeed, then disappear without a trace into the night. He’s not going to get any awards for reasonable behavior.
Where's the money?
he lost it in the jump. hence, the second hijacking
cocaine is a hell of a drug
William Colby was db.
Good morning
I think that he did that night nobidy could survived stormy night and strong wind he fall into river and frozen to death money find in river
Someone knows and that’s DB Cooper aka ?
chael p sonnen knows who it is