DB Cooper’s infamous parachute may have just been found breaking open the 50-year-old cold case

The 50-year-old cold case of D.B. Cooper may have seen a new development after an amateur sleuth claims to have found the parachute used by the infamous, yet still unidentified plane hijacker. YouTuber Dan Gryder said that he found a modified device matching the one used in the 1971 hijacking on a property in North Carolina, and has handed it over to the FBI. Gryder, who has been looking into the case “off and on” for almost 20 years, said in a video series about his investigation that the rig was “literally one in a billion.” “This is the rig he used... we just solved it,” he says. D. B. Cooper, also known as Dan Cooper, hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 on November 24 1971. During the flight, Cooper told a flight attendant he had a bomb, demanding $200,000 in ransom and four parachutes upon landing in Seattle. However soon after taking off again with the intention of heading to Mexico, Cooper opened the aircraft’s door and parachuted into the night over southwestern Washington. His true identity and whereabouts remain a mystery to this day. Gryder found what he claims is Cooper’s parachute on a property owned by the family of the late Richard McCoy Jr – one of the men considered by the FBI to be a “serious suspect” in the case.<br/>