D.B. Cooper lives! ... yet again
A couple of kids who found a tattered parachute buried about 30 miles north of Portland have triggered another round of D.B.Cooper-mania.Cooper skyjacked at jet liner in 1971. He took $200,000 in ransom and parachuted out of the plane somewhere near the Washington-Oregon state line. Most authorities say the jump probably killed him.
But one version of the ageless legend is that Cooper was really Brigham Young University student Richard McC
oy, a 'Nam veteran and experienced sky diver. McCoy pulled off a similar skyjacking a few months later. (Does that violate BYU's honor code?) He was killed in a shoot-out before the FBI could question him.The parachute, right, recently found near Amboy, Wash. would add a sliver of support to the BYU boy-does-bad theory. The chute having been buried would indicate McCoy survived the jump and tried to cover his trail.
In January, the FBI announced it is still hunting Cooper. "Would we still like to get our man? Absolutely. And we have reignited the case."
3 Comments:
Hmmm. An interesting article. However, even though I am non-Mormon, I found the little jab at BYU, "(Does that violate BYU's honor code?)", to be quite pointless and a boring attempt at humor. Reporters should not try to be clever. Leave that for the professionals.
Good memory jog. I remember he bailed out over Utah lake and his home in SE Provo was swarming with law enforcement officers.
I understand he had fallen in with a bad bunch north of the point of the mountain, and their influence on him led to his down fall.
I remember the story well, having been around for it. One point re your retelling, Glen: McCoy was indeed arrested, questioned, charged, tried and found guilty (by a jury before Judge Willis Ritter). He was killed in a shootout when he escaped from federal prison.
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