'D.B. Cooper allegedly slain Provoan' — ex-lawmen say Richard Floyd McCoy Jr. was Cooper
Document date November 1974
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 63 p. 3 (DB Cooper-26281), News clipping, dated Nov 1974 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-63%3A003-003
D.B. Cooper allegedly slain Provoan
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Two ex-lawmen claim slain Utah skyjacker Richard Floyd McCoy Jr. was the man who, under the alias D.B. Cooper, skyjacked a Northwest Orient 727 on Thanksgiving 1971, extorted $200,000 from the airline and parachuted into the night. No trace of Cooper was found after he parachuted from the jetliner near Portland, but some of the cash surfaced along the Columbia River in 1980. Most investigators believe the man perished. McCoy was convicted of skyjacking a Denver-to-Los Angeles flight on April 7, 1972, and bailing out over his hometown of Provo, Utah, with $500,000. McCoy was sentenced to 45 years in prison and was shot to death Nov. 9, 1974, by FBI agents in Virginia Beach, Va., after escaping with three others from a federal prison at Lewisburg, Pa. In the recently completed manuscript, "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (D.B. Cooper — No Longer a Mystery)," Bernie A. Rhodes, former FBI division chief in Salt Lake City, and Russell P. Calame, former chief U.S. probation and parole agent, contend McCoy was Cooper. They cite parallels in the hijackings, such as both men getting four parachutes, both using the phrase "no funny stuff" in their ransom notes and both showing knowledge of pilot terminology. At the time of the McCoy hijacking, it was thought to be a rather inept copy of the earlier, greatly publicized skyjacking. Both hijackings were during vacation time at Brigham Young Uni-
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Richard McCoy Jr.
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Drawing of D.B. Cooper
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versity, where McCoy was a student. In both cases, the hijacker sat in the coach section on the right side of the aisle, the authors said. They also said they have found evidence disputing family accounts that McCoy had been at home in Provo on Thanksgiving 1971. They said they had determined that McCoy purchased gasoline in Las Vegas at Thanksgiving time and that a collect call was made to the McCoy residence at 10:41 p.m. on Nov. 25, 1971. They theorize that McCoy drove from Provo to Las Vegas on or before Thanksgiving eve, flew to Portland, bought a ticket on Northwest Orient to Seattle, hijacked the plane, parachuted, walked back to Portland, caught a flight to Las
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Vegas and drove home to Provo. Calame said there is a piece of evidence, an object Cooper left on the airplane, that has always been used to eliminate fraudulent claims by people who said they were Cooper. He said that item has been identified by McCoy's relatives as having belonged to him. Rhodes said that in a pre-sentence interview with him in 1972, McCoy neither admitted nor denied guilt in the Cooper hijacking.
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DB.Cooper-26281 164A - 81 - Sub B
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b6 b7C
Serials: 164A-81-Sub B