FD-350 clipping 'Skyjacker Killed at Beach,' Richmond News Leader re death of Richard F. McCoy
Document date 11 November 1974
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 110 p. 379 (DB Cooper-50023), News clipping, dated 11 Nov 1974, serial SE 164-81-8466 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-110%3A379-379
FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63) (Mount Clipping In Space Below)
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RICHMOND NEWS LEADER RICHMOND, VA.
Date: 11-11-74 Edition: EVENING Author: DAVE RILEY Editor: JOHN E. LEARD Title: RICHARD MC COY
Character: b6 or b7C Classification: Submitting Office: RICHMOND [ ] Being Investigated
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Skyjacker Killed at Beach
SUB 386, B
By DAVE RILEY VIRGINIA BEACH (AP) — Richard Floyd McCoy and Melvin Dale Walker kept to themselves when they were staying in the ranch-style house they rented in a peaceful sub- division here.
Neighbors had little contact with the two, except for an oc- casional passing greeting or a friendly wave as McCoy jogged through the neighborhood. One of the men once offered to help fix a neighbor's car.
Then late Saturday night, FBI agents swooped down on the rented house after three days of surveillance. Shots were fired. McCoy was killed and Walker arrested.
'THEY SEEMED SO NICE' "I just can't believe it. They seemed so nice," said one neighbor after discovering that McCoy was a convicted sky- jacker who once bailed out of a jetliner with $500,000 ransom and that Walker was a bank rob- ber on the FBI's 10-most wanted list.
MELVIN WALKER In Custody
Federal agents say the men were using the house in the quiet middle class neighborhood a few miles from the oceanfront as an occasional hideout.
.. Both had been the objects of a
RICHARD F. MCCOY Dead in Incident
nationwide manhunt since they fled from a federal prison in a rain of gunfire three months ago.
FBI agents were staked out inside the rented house and
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AP Wirephotos MELVIN WALKER In Custody
RICHARD F. MCCOY Dead in Incident
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5 1 DEC 0 7 1974 [illegible stamp marks]
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SUB 386, B [handwritten initials/routing marks] DB COOPER-50023 164-81-[guess: 8466]
Serials: SE 164-81-8466
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