FD-350 clipping: 'Skyjacker Killed at Beach' (death of Richard McCoy)

Document date 11 November 1974

Part 63page 141 pageDB Cooper-26308

Part of: FD-350 clipping 'Skyjacker Killed at Beach' re death of Richard McCoy, Richmond News Leader · 11 November 1974 · Part 45 pp. 245–247

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Document: FD-350 clipping: 'Skyjacker Killed at Beach' (death of Richard McCoy)
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 63 p. 14 (DB Cooper-26308), News clipping, dated 11 Nov 1974, serial SE 164-81-8466 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-63%3A014-014

Assoc. Dir. Dep.-A.D.-Adm. Dep.-A.D.-Inv. Asst. Dir.: Admin. Comp. Syst. Ext. Affairs I [illegible] C. [illegible] [illegible] Inspection Intell. Laboratory Plan. & Eval. Spec. Inv. [illegible] Training ____ Legal Coun. ____ Telephone Rm. — Director Sec'y ____

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FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63)

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Skyjacker Killed at Beach

SUB 38b, B

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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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RICHMOND NEWS LEADER RICHMOND, VA.

Date: 11-11-74 Edition: EVENING Author: DAVE RILEY Editor: JOHN E. LEARD Title: RICHARD MC COY

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NOT RECORDED [stamp date:] 185 [illegible] 23 197[4/5]

let: Classification: Submitting Office: RICHMOND ☐ Being Investigated

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5 1 DEC 6 7 1974 [illegible stamp]

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SUB B

DB Cooper-26308

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Serials: SE 164-81-8466

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