The Bridge Podcast - The Real D.B. Cooper Revealed: A Son's Irrefutable Proof - Rick McCoy III
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- Опубликовано: 27 ноя 2024
- The truth about D.B. Cooper has finally landed. 🪂 💰
In the latest episode of The Bridge, Travis Haley sits down with Rick McCoy III, son of Richard Floyd McCoy Jr., the man Rick claims is the real D.B. Cooper. For the first time, Rick reveals untold stories, never-before-seen evidence, and the truth behind the infamous skyjacking that captured the world's imagination.
This isn't just a retelling-it's a revelation that could finally close the case on one of America's greatest mysteries.
Are you ready to learn the real story?
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Timestamps for those interested in the DB Cooper parts:
4:00 - He found his dad's parachute, which he showed to a local reporter, who set up a connection with the FBI. Rick III then agreed to turn it in- leading the closed-case to be reopened by the FBI.
24:34 - He says his sister has a paper, written by their dad, on the "perfect crime", written before the DB Cooper incident, about this type of skyjacking.
28:30 - He says his dad's logbook shows multiple jumps occurred in the days before the DB Cooper incident- practice jumps for the heist.
29:33 - When the FBI received the parachute they asked to see the building it was found in. Multiple officers show up to take photographs, and Rick III agrees to give saliva DNA as evidence
31:47 - Rick III agrees to give saliva DNA swabs as evidence, so they can match against the Cooper DNA sample
32:38 - Rick III says there's apparently an issue with the FBI's DB Cooper DNA sample, because they came back to him asking if they can dig up his dad's body to get a sample. His sister's fine with it, he's not. Reminder, the FBI definitely did shoot this guy's dad.
32:37 - "And then they ask me if they can dig up my dad [for DNA]" (Reminder: this guy's dad was definitely shot by the FBI, also that tie was handed around the room before DNA was a thing)
35:30 - "Sister says... what's the matter with you just tell them yes."
36:34 - "I've talked to the FB- they have a description of the parachute. It fits it... 'Your parachute's with the expert'." Then he gives some backstory- the apparently the FBI doesn't have a record of the serial numbers on the original parachute given to DB Cooper, so they can't just look up the serial numbers. But he's saying it matches the description given by the original creator of the DB Cooper rig: Earl Cossey.
47:20 - He felt abandoned by the government and the VA. When he had medical issues from Vietnam, instead of helping they took his pilot's license.
Richard McCoy Jr. lived an amazing life.
I want to believe Rick, I just refuse to completely believe something just off of a RUclips video (especially one with the gall to have "irrefutable proof" in the title). But I really like listening to Rick, he doesn't seem like someone that has any lies to keep straight. If the FBI case stays on the backburner, here are some concrete ways I could be properly convinced:
* Does anyone else have a datestamped copy of their dad's article on his "perfect crime"? That would indicate he's not a copycat.
* Is there a written testimony from Earl Cossey on the container modifications? Then that could be easily matched with the photos.
* Obviously the DB Cooper case being properly closed would be convincing as well, which it sounds like is making a lot of progress.
its true i promise i know him
I’ve lived in Oregon my whole life. I was born in the 70’s. I remember my dad, grandpa and their friends admiring the guts that Cooper had to try and pull this off. I think that was the general attitude of everybody that I grew up around.
They still have D.B. Cooper day in this town I forget in Oregon , people dress up as him and whatnot
All over the country because what kids don't realize today is ppl in the 70s had real adversity. Although, this guy's dad is NOT Dan Cooper. I think people forget there were two stewardess' on that plane. One remained with him. She was up close to Cooper and when asked if this guy was Cooper she didn't identify him as Dan Cooper. Why don't / didn't these ppl simply ask the people on the gd plane instead of pretending.
@@johnscanlon2598 Lewis River in WA is where some of the money was found.
Rick is so damn humble 😅
He’s a Jiu Jitsu black belt, a Judo black belt, and a Sombo black belt. He’s carved out his own legacy, and he has absolutely nothing to gain by lying about anything. EVERYONE who knows him respects him. He’s a successful businessman, coach, and mentor to damn near 4 generations of fighters. He’s as solid as they come, and though I don’t use this term because the bar is so damn low, he is a good man. We love you Coach 🫶🏿
All anyone need do is show his picture to the stewardess. That's it. It's that simple. If he was Dan Cooper she would have said as much when he was arrested. She didn't identify him as Dan Cooper. I don't know why people so wilfully ignore this.
I’m born and raised 30 minutes from Cove City NC. I remember watching something on tv about DB Cooper when I was a kid and my dad saying that there was a rumor that one of the McCoy guys in Cove City was DB Cooper. I’ve always remembered that because of how big of a deal it was.
Whether he was D.B. Cooper or not is far less important to me than who CWO McCoy was. He spoke of killing in the same way my grandfather did when I finally got him to tell me about what it was like fighting the Japanese on Luzon in WW2. And in my life, I have witnessed that there are "good men" and there are "criminals". I've also learned first-hand that, unbeknownst to your average citizen, quite often the two overlap.
*We love you Rick, and your dad was **_Legend_** .*
*Thanks for clearing up one of the world's favorite mysteries.*
The overlap would be an epic name for a book.
@@_c_y_p_3 That's a good idea! I have considered writing one, but who would give a shit? LOL
Amazing pod, thank you for sharing my work! It was awesome working with Jordan on this DB cooper tattoo!
I have nothing but respect for RICHARD McCoy Jr. A solid badass patriot hero who was abandoned by his country,I also respect his son & daughter
IT'S ALSO CALLED A 'FINAL RESTING PLACE'.... You did nothing wrong. Who cares? The feds got burned by a smarter man. If yur dad is DB Cooper good on him. Also yur family's cooperation can't be questioned. Awesome story dude. Yur family a legend.
My Dad was MACVSOG. I am not surprised that DB Cooper was quite possibly MACVSOG. I wish I could call my Dad and talk with him about this. He passed away June 12th, 2024.
sorry to hear that. lost my dad a few years ago. it sucks. but it does get better. hang in there
Sorry for your loss.
Did your father ever happen to mention anything about the phoenix program?
I'm sorry to hear your dad just passed. Such a close missed opportunity for you. I totally understand how you feel 😔 after my mom passed I realized there were so many things I wished I would of asked her. We spend our whole lives with our parents and don't realize until after they're gone how little we really knew about their past. I still have one aunt that is in her 80s and sharp as a tack that can still answer a lot of questions for me and your post reminds me that I need to stop wasting time and go visit her. Thank you!!
Thank you for his service
black ops type of stuff?
I always felt bad for the Vietnam vets.... treated so bad when they came home.
So.. people calling this man a thief or criminal... it doesnt feel right.
"A reasonable man driven to do unreasonable things."
It’s all veterans nobody gives a damn about veterans…..not family not the military once you’re out you’re on your own…..definitely not the VA whom profits from taking things away from veterans to put more money into corrupt politicians pockets…..nothing has changed since Vietnam war still veterans dying everyday and the government agencies don’t even want to give them their hard earned military funerals…….yeah as a veteran myself nobody cares…..my dad was a Vietnam veteran served with honor when he died the military (even though I was a active duty Marine at the time) the government said they didn’t have any resources to send a military honor guard to my fathers funeral……so some local veterans and hells angels did the ceremony. It still hurts me today……I served most of my life on the military and nobody really cares….civilian corporations definitely don’t want to hire veterans that’s why so many end up homeless…..yeah even most other veterans organizations put money in their own pocket before helping any veterans and now the govt is giving funding to illegal criminals while veterans are dying.
Fantastic interview, thank you Rick McCoy for sharing your story. I’ve been always been intrigued by DB Cooper, it’s awesome to know how it was. Looking forward to hearing a part 2. Back in the day collect calls would show up on your phone bill showing the city and state the call was made from. I know this because my husband was supposed to be working out-of-town for 2 weeks, he called home collect 3 times, he was calling 1/4 mile from home lol…
Richard McCoy Jr was a dedicated husband and father, an honorable man, a Vietnam hero and the ultimate warrior.
The government made him DB Cooper.
Not my son.
All I want to know is why you were on the grassy knoll on that day in Dallas
You've reached the Expert Hijacking Level 101
Not my hooman
YOUR A LIAR, Sir!
Obviously, since you're lying... or, as they also call it, trolling.
I am enjoying this interview ! I was 17 when this story happened. I thought it was interesting that he went to college in Utah, which made me look on family search and come to find out he was my 10th cousin!
Married to a military guy for 32 yrs. He served in a lot of secret missions. A risk taker. After retirement, he searched out more risk taking. He became entangled in illegal activities and paid a high price. I agree that the warriors search for a purpose and that high/rush they experienced in the military.
There is a difference between a nice guy and a good man… HELLUVA quote
I’ve said that same thing with many times with a lot more words….that quote is so simple and true. Once you have some years under your belt, it doesn’t even need explanation
I like this. I'm a great man Not a nice guy.
And I'm not cocky I hate my life but I do love my heart as a man with morals. Sometimes the lines blurr
I was fascinated by the Cooper story since I was a kid, always wondering what really happened. Thanks to Richard telling his story I finally know. Thank you both.
A lot is said about Richard Floyd McCoy, but man, what a woman he was married to, for real. How many of us lost our wives the first moment of PTSD signs, she watched them evolve and was RIDE OR DIE TO THE END.
How many of us would have been loyal to that kind of woman?!
A lot of women leave now as soon as it doesn’t live up to their little fairy tale idea. Maybe I’m projecting but I see everywhere..that goes both ways of course….very sad. I pray my kids will know better
A virtuous act by his wife
@@danielstrother2494it’s all by design we’re weaker without strong family bonds
We're here. Life is not about us. With a strong faith and knowing God will restore me, I keep on showing love, and sometimes fighting my man by telling him I'm not leaving. I have friends that I can cry to. Sometimes I cry alone. That's how I handle being strong for him. He has a hurt that can't be fixed, and memories he doesn't want to speak of. So I stay present, show him how amazing I think he is, and we find good fun together. I battle depression and anxiety for other reasons. Helping others is a way to forget your own troubles. Together, we do a lot of volunteer work. It really opens our eyes to how we have been blessed and it feels great to share the blessings we have. (Near Tampa, where all the houses around our neighborhood flooded from Hurricane Helene's storm surge and roofs were ripped apart by Hurricane Milton. Recovery, of buildings and souls, takes a long time)
Choose better hunny. There are good and bad in every group. War is not glamourous . Unlike the movies. It is by design. 2 destroy families. Give the govt more control. Over the population. And make the rich richer. Be a soldier for your family and your community. Not the mic.
i can't believe it was the guy who looked exactly like the sketch who hijacked the same exact kind of plane 5 months later
Seems so simple right? Lol. I remember watching a documentary and seeing McCoy and the sketch and saying that's him guys lol.
What about the witnesses
@@charmcrackermusic4250 eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable. shockingly so.
I know right? wierd
It doesn’t really look like him and there were over a dozen copycats within the following year
His citation:
Headquarters, 9th Infantry Division, General Orders No. 2816 (April 29, 1968)
The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 2, 1926, takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross to Warrant Officer One (WO-1) Richard F. McCoy (ASN: W-3155317), United States Army, for heroism while participating in aerial flight, as evidenced by voluntary actions above and beyond the call of duty in the Republic of Vietnam. Warrant Officer McCoy distinguished himself exceptionally valorous actions during the early morning hours of 8 November 1967, while serving as a helicopter pilot with the Air Cavalry Troop, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, in the air over a Vietnamese Popular Forces compound at Xa Duy Can, 7 miles northwest of Tanh Linh, Vietnam. Upon hearing that the compound was in the process of being overrun by a large Viet Cong force, Warrant Officer McCoy volunteered to fly his aircraft to the scene in support of the friendly forces, in spite of poor visibility due to thick ground fog and intermittent cloud layers, and a complete lack of tactical maps of the area. Flying by instrumentation and radio alone, Warrant Officer McCoy located the compound and came under automatic weapons and small arms fire. With the position of the compound marked by a flare and the firefight marked by tracer rounds, Warrant Officer McCoy began a series of firing passes, launching rockets directly into the Viet Cong positions until all his ammunition was expended. Due to his courageous flight and highly accurate fire, the enemy was completely routed, leaving 20 bodies behind. Warrant Officer McCoy’s outstanding flying ability and devotion to duty are in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflect great credit upon himself, his unit and the United States Army.
Wow not surprised this has to be db cooper❤
Allons! Welcome Home Richard! - Security Section 3rd Squadron 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment 1968-1969 from Portland, Oregon
I was a senior at a high school in Tacoma, Wa when this story broke. It was fascinating and I always wondered what happened to him. Most reports were that he never survived. lol So glad I got to hear this story.
As horrible as it would be I would let them get the DNA sample. At this point this case needs solving. I respect your wishes Rick. I really wish you would change your mind buddy. Any decision I'll definitely support. This is the most reliable evidence ever found with this case.
He’s just saying it for attention, he knows he’s not his son. It’s 2024, do a DNA test 🙄
@@UnknownUser-fe5zu I would not give my DNA. If you have to ask why then you would not understand the answer
@@HatredMMA closure is an illusion
Why does it have to be solved?
Its basically solved Dan geyser did all or most of the work on it.his dad is the eh Cooper guy.its his dad.
He came back a hero and was not treated that way by America. Most Vietnam Veterans experienced this. VA’s answer was to take his pilots license. That would have been devastating to his psyche.
I smell a JRE in the near future, I think it was his dad just on his background alone. I don’t think regular folks could plan, have the stones/stomach and most importantly the expertise to do that type of jump.
Very cool interview! I’m convinced! 🤘🏼Here’s to D.B. Cooper!😎
I REALLy enjoyed this interview. What an enigma was Richard McCoy ! I loved hearing about all the Good things he did in his life.
Brother, You know who your father was. Please do not solve the case for them by letting them desecrate your father’s grave. Let him rest
This truely need to be a mini series
What an incredibly interesting story with a horrific ending. We don’t take care of our veterans 😢 The courage and valor they possess is beyond words! I do believe his Dad was Dan “ DBCooper” and I am glad to know this is solved. I wish the family peace
He should open a museum or even a wing of museum in is martial arts dojo or in a restaurant and put all of the artifacts all of the evidence all of the letters the photos the metals and awards should be on display. He should be showing the video of the cop talking about shooting McCoy. All of the articles about the bank robberies and the sky jacking. And he could just call it the Real McCoy the dB Cooper museum. Maybe this guy can earn a little money on the side from this and show his dad's side of the story. I would like to see this person humanized and not demonized simply because he's a veteran Who went a little off the reservation.
Sounds like a great idea
Super fascinating episode!!!! Excellent interview/conversation gentlemen! Most credible story/evidence I've heard within my lifetime for sure.
I'm convinced. I do wish, however, you guys had addressed the 'Cooper' money that was found. That part of the story seems important to me
My dad had horrible PTSD from Vietnam. He was sprayed with Agent Orange, my brother was born with short gut syndrome because of it too. He had to have 80% of his intestines cut out at 36 hours old. He was the first person to get a small intestine transplant in I believe 1999 and is now 46 yrs old and doing great. He spent the first 9 yrs of his life in Dayton, Ohio's Children's Medical Center and my teenage yrs were spent at a Ronald McDonald house every weekend, but I am glad he is alive. My dad died in 2021, had been diagnosed with lung cancer, but fell and died from a blood clot a day before his 71st bday. Heartbreaking!!!😢😢😢
Im a new subscriber, you are a great interviewer. Thank you Rick for sharing your hero and father with us all. You are a great man yourself, dont let ANYONE TELL YOU ANY DIFFERENT!!! GOD BLESS YOU BOTH AND YOUR FAMILIES TOO!!! 🙏🩷🙏🇺🇸
I am deeply interested in this subject, but this interview is frustrating. The son says half a sentence, pauses, spews out onomatopoeias and then continues with a second half of the sentence which doesn’t belong with the first half. He changes direction in mid paragraphs. He does not complete some sentences at all. His words are confusing af. It’s so frustrating to listen to. I tried using closed caption to help but that is worse. I do think his dad was DB. I appreciate this interview and it was enlightening. Thanks for this. I wish it could be done again with more effort put into having the son’s speech being more clear and conclusive. I do thank him for trying. He seems like a very good person.
I doubt the flight crew during the hijacking would see DB Cooper as a hero. No one really talks about them much.
That's a good point. He no doubt gave those innocent people PTSD. They are absolutely his victims.
@@lilyw.719 🙄 not everyone who goes thru something negative gets PTSD! Especially to people back then!
Unplanned flight procedures like opening up a plane brings high risk to all involved
False They Notably Stated How Polite a Kind His was. especially to the Flight Attendants
Good episode! I’ve always been fascinated with the DB Cooper case. I took a forensic photography class probably 15 years ago that was taught by one of the FBI agents who also worked this case. The mysteries behind it is incredible. It was interesting to hear the story from this angle. Thank you for publishing this episode!
I wish the interviewer would let him talk
Thank you so much for sharing that your dad was so much more!! A good man❤ What a fantastic podcast! Thank you both!
This pod cast is all over the time line Dan gryder is the guy who brought the case to light and solved ultimately. “Probable cause.” Is his RUclips channel he’s got his investigation documentaries posted there.
As a Jummper a Veteran and a Huge fan , im super fukin excited!!
Same here brother
This was awesome Travis. Thank you for your service teammate. To Richard McCoy III - I'm sorry for your loss of your father at the hands of the FBI. I think I speak for many but a DB Cooper Museum would be amazing with these artifacts. I don't know that there is enough, but I think you could really turn a negative into a positive with this. I'd love to pay my respects to your father - his gravesite should be a memorial site people can visit. Godspeed.
This was a GREAT interview!!
This is going to be great! I can't wait to see this! So many questions to be answered!
No this was a bunch of lies! He never was SOG lol
@budgibson185 That's not what I was here for, I'm here for DB Cooper.
Watch Dan geyser documentary called family secrets ,he solved it a few years ago.this guys dad was FB cooper.Dan geyser deserves the credit he solved it
Gryder’s description comes from what Cossey told author Bruce Smith in 2011. What Cossey told the FBI in 1971 is totally different.
Geyser solved the TV Cooper case
Anyone ever took a minute to think about some of the very first GB’s some of em came to very odd ends in the 70’s. C.w. McCoy, sgt Sadler, just to name a few, awesome hero’s who meet odd ends..
They would fringer printed him when he went to prison those records should be around
Fun fact: I’ve watched Rick McCoy III (the man being interviewed) casually steamroll professional fighters in their prime. Dude is the TRUTH!
He is i know him in real life he is a great dude
the undisputed hide and seek grand champion
The children should allow LE to obtain DNA from the buried father. The truth is important. It is not desecration as you can control how the body is treated and your father deserves when he is reburied to have a ceremony with military honors.
I always believed McCoy was DB Cooper I’ve seen other podcast of guys who were in lewisburg pen with him and they all believed he was Cooper this guy was the real deal John J Rambo
No wonder the guy has 5 black belts.
Pumped for this episode!
Great stuff dude. I believe you have solved the mystery
Why are they touching that parachute with bare hands?
Because touch DNA breaks down so quickly. The chain of custody is also just ruined after so many years.
May I suggest taking a course in intervieing people. This is all over the place.
John Stryker Meyer on his SOG cast I can’t remember which one mentioned a SOG guy that all the SOG veterans believed was DBCooper
This is wild! Awesome podcast.
This is intriguing to me, I have always been fascinated with this case. My grandmother was an McCoy, my father's mom, from Pound Virginia. My dad was drafted for Vietnam as well and stayed 21 years and is 78 now still working full time for the Federal Government. He is also a pilot on the side for over 40 years and has his own plane in Dinwiddie County Virginia. So many parallels...would love to help you go through things and FYI don't ever be sorry for getting a Lawyer, that was smart. LE are not your friends when it comes to investigating 🤣.
HOPE IS OWN PLAN WASN'T TEACHING YOU TO SPELL PLANE ! YOU FAILED AND LET HIM DOWN
Check your own spelling @@fredflintstoner596
Great interview! Very cool story.
I guess it’s better that you look upon your father as a hero instead of a loser.
i mean, he was a very decorated soldier. not sure i'd say loser
Y'all need to hit up Chael and tell him he's wrong who he thinks is DB Cooper lol😂
Lmao I've watched Chael tell that story atleast 3 times by now 😂😂
They don't need to hit up anyone. He already has & you're watching it @hatredmma.
I have watched this fascinating interview three times now. Thank you for this content. I wonder if there is DNA on his personal items.
First off, the family should sue the FBI on the behave of the estate - no warrant, murder, excessive use of force, violation of the 4th the Amendment.
Escape all cages, respect, just remember the house always wins and they don't follow their own rules.
rules???
@timoakes450 rules laws Constitution tomato tomahto. It's all the different lines drawn in the same sand. I was never one to color inside the lines, boring that deal
Most definitely. That's deep Deep.
Its unfortunate that Travis isnt able to get this guy more comfortable and able to shake his nerves a bit so he could manage staying calm in the interview and able to stay a bit more focused and avoid rambling so much. It causes the interview to jump around alot and lose direction. But i was totally unaware of this mans father and the story of his life. I tend to believe that its totally possible that he was the man known as DB Cooper and more evidence points his way than anyone else im aware of. I'm fascinated by this story.
This gives us a whole new look at DB Cooper.
I feel like even back then $200,000 wouldn't have been worth going through all of that for the average person to want to do.
1:37:30 wow this is great how he wrote about the delema of a soldier at war.
And how much the movies had influenced his thinking.
May Our Father Bless the McCoy family with Peace and Prosperity. I admire his father so much now hearing his story. I have had these same thoughts since I saw it on the TV as a child in the '60s. M Is C is just a process to destroy families and culture in that process. Peace us what we deserve, need and is the hill we need to defend. Ef the mic.in all due respect to soldiers and I for years dreamed to be part of it, stop just stop doing the dirty work for tptb.
@@constancegreiner906
Exactly, and since being Awakened in 2016 I found out that the tptb are satanic and the military has ALOT of satanists in it now. Especially Equino he was a Lieutenant in the military and come to find out doing research that there are rituals behind the killings as well. The rituals are stronger with the emotions behind ALOT of the guys that are fighting and killing. It is SICK ACTUALLY WHEN YOU LOOK INTO IT!!! GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY!!!🙏🩷🙏🇺🇸
Rick, I would like more time spent on the heroic man, the man of service to his country and mankind.
Apple don't fall far from the tree.
Yeah, Sr did bad ("fought the law & the law won") but he paid for that - in full. Jr displays all the good qualities his father had,
hence the cliche fist line..
Also, bravo to the retired Delta captain (& traveling minstrel ;-)) for solving the case (the FIB couldn't (or wouldn't.)
And McCoy's VietNam helicopter heroics recalls two other, Huey pilots that war, Bruce Crandall & Ed Freeman.
Hope/Trust most here know the names, if not look up their story - wouldn't be believable if weren't true.
RIP to all three men.
Unless D.B. could fly.. He died on exiting that plane. I knew one of the 2 officers that delivered the money and parachutes to him on that plane that day. and according to the officer, They made sure that neither parachute would open properly and he would fall to his death. The money was also marked and some was found washed up on shore not far from where he bailed out of the plane some years later.
Yes I remember seeing a story about that money being found all over the woods.
They were talking about this guy Earl that modified the parachutes . He gave it to one of your buddies I guess and it was delivered to D.b. Cooper
@@jamesbuttery3862 True story.
That’s an Air Force rig, not a Navy Backpack-8. The harness is very different.
His dad is DJ cooper.Dan geyser solved this case about 3 years ago.its solved
It's a heavily modified surplus bailout rig with the handle moved for recreational use along with added d rings which the original didn't have... The personal rig modified and delivered to the FBI from the local drop zone, that rigger gave very specific details about the rig in a book years ago before he passed away... You need to watch Dan Gryder's DB Cooper series parts 1-3... He's the one mentioned in the interview, he's mostly into aviation training/skydiving but has been studying DB Cooper for like 20 years... Worth watching his videos, you'll be convinced...
@@berryreading4809 I agree
@@berryreading4809gonna have to check it out
I believe him and His dad looks like cooper
A frustrating interview. All over the place. I wanted to hear the evidence but this was just too discombobulated. Had to stop listening. Please try again once you sort this out.
Very difficult to follow the chain of events . Gentleman seemed nervous. Would love to see this reorganized and a timeline followed. Great story .
I felt the same. Lay out the evidence, piece by piece. Make the case. Then if you want to talk about all this other stuff, go for it.
Some say a criminal is a criminal, but the romance, or mystique of certain historical crimes is hard to not admire. The sheer will power it can sometimes take to go through certain things or do things is admirable even though not moral. Respect from retrospect, I would call it, but when you're in the moment and the pistol gets crammed down your throat or you see that happen to someone else isn't quite as romantic. If some hood pistol whips Grandpa Shicklegruber's in the teeth, well that isn't as entertaining, or worthy of glory, and most the time when life happens in a bad way and you find yourself in a tight spot with fate, there is usually atleast one good person in the crowd who would be willing to step in and help protect the meek, or injured, and I say this because more than a few times in my life I've found that the good Samaritan turned out to be a criminal, or a person with a blurry history that most wouldn't expect much chivalry from. A man can walk in the bank at 10am, rob it, and while trying to make good his escape could see see some young punk pushing old sweet Grandma Sugercookie out of his way so he gets on the bus first, and seeing that alters his escape plans so he can dance on over and embarrass the living hell out of punkie Brewster by beating his brains loose and off the bus so granny can have a seat. I agree that I also always thought he was a pro, to some degree. It isn't easy to look out of the aircraft at the ground and make speed assumptions. Alot of fast math, because you aint fairing well you go leaping out of a airliner at 500 mph. That's a deal breaker with existence. Crimes-people-life, it isn't always black and white, it's usually black and blue, if you don't learn to learn how the artist of our cosmos shades all these drawings. McCoy is also the only guy that favors the description drawings. Remember that Rackstraw dude? He didn't look nothing like the description.
Very good conversation to be in on. I'm proud to have been allowed to be in the room during this journey. Thank you
Semper Fi Brother!
He didn’t get excommunicated because the church was embarrassed. I’m sure they were. He committed a crime.
You should take this video down. D.B. Cooper Sleuth posted a video yesterday definitively proving that the parachute Dan Gryder found was not one given to DB Cooper. Sleuth compiled tons of references to the parachutes with detailed descriptions of them from volumes of original case records he foia'd, and the descriptions make it 100% clear that Gryder has the wrong chute. Gryder did not use the records and instead based his belief on the claim of just one man decades later, who was disreputable and uncredible.
Tie recalls to mind similar ones I used to see the missionaries wearing, growing up in Idaho.
His FATHER is a MATCH for the D.B Cooper ARTIST'S SKETCH.
Think he is DB Cooper?
Dude where are you getting that McCoy is SOG? Lol we have the master list and HE AINT ON IT.
Not to mention I’ve interviewed SOG RECON vets for 5 years and they have their own real SOG man as DB, NOT McCoy
Nah, he’s a super secret SOG. You wouldn’t know of him because he was super secret.
Dan geyser solved the case his dad was the famous hyjacker
I think he was sheepdipped and was working under military orders , think about it it took a lot of freedoms away searches at airports metal detectors , that was the start of it now look at the state of it , yea we want it safe but they went overboard with the TSA , all sorts of horror stories from them
We have the serial number for Cooper’s canopy. It’s literally in the FBI files that have been released. That’s not the right one found in the barn.
You have the serial numbers for the chutes they sent on the plane. Cooper threw some off to throw the investigators. Like come on lol
Saved me two hours
The wrong serial number? You should call the FBI and let let them know, I guess they didn't catch that. the FBI is a bunch of idiots, lucky the internet Wiz Kids like you are playing attention
@@burtonporter8437So you think he risked landing the plane even though he already had a chute on board?
@@armorers_wrenchhow do you think he got the money?
I bet it was him. Smart ...born risk taker. Definitely had the ability. Plus the change in him.
One of the best podcasts I've watched in a long time. Thank you both
Awesome podcast. Rick McCoy is the real deal.
I know some of the McCoys from the Cove City area. My dad grew up in the Wintergreen community.
Doesn't make sense to me that he would keep the parachute.
I'm convinced.
From what was said in this podcast, DB Cooper was not his father. Imo. The commentary was all over the place.
Need HBO to get on this mini series pronto
The notorious "DAN COOPER", LEGENDARY and PEERLESS hijacker extraordinaire, SURVIVED his leap into the unknown and has been IDENTIFIED at last!
This made me happier than Bitcoin hitting $99,000. What an absolute legend.
"It's not because I have a grudge against your airlines, it's just because I have a grudge."
My dad is DB Cooper, but don’t do a DNA test.
Awesome show.
Wonder if anyone touched base with John Plaster regards possible SOG service.
I really like this DB cooper guy!! Sounds like an exciting life and he broke out of prison to boot!! 😂❤
They should beable to go threw his things and find his dna profile with out digging him up
My god. Speaking words seems so extremely difficult for some people. Smh
Looks like painful memories
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was he in the Portland area on Nov.24th of that year?