Is he the real McCoy?

Two North Carolina siblings claim their late father was the elusive Boeing hijacker DB Cooper after they allegedly found his parachute hidden in their home, according to a new report.

Chanté and Rick McCoy III claim their father, Richard McCoy Jr., was the infamous fugitive who disappeared when he jumped out of a Boeing plane with $200,000 in cash in 1971 after taking passengers and crew hostage, the reports Cowboy State Daily.

The siblings said they waited until their mother’s death in 2020 to come forward out of fear that she might be implicated because the parachute allegedly belonging to Cooper was found in their storage outside the house.

After her death, the siblings met with aviation YouTuber Dan Gryder, who saw the parachute and believes it is the exact same parachute Cooper used in 1971.

“This device is literally one in a billion,” Gryder told the local outlet about the unique parachute he saw.

Gryder claimed that the parachute at the McCoys’ home was the same as the modified parachute that veteran parachutist Earl Cossey had prepared for police as part of Cooper’s demands before he disappeared somewhere between Seattle and Reno, Nevada.

DB Cooper detectives have raised the possibility that Richard Jr. was the fugitive for years, given his own criminal past.

Five months after Cooper pulled off his famous prank, Richard Jr. was caught in a similar hijacking in Utah. The thief eventually escaped from prison and died in a subsequent shootout with police.

The McCoy siblings told Gryder they had known the truth for years, but talking about it remained taboo in their family because they feared law enforcement would implicate their mother, Karen, in both kidnappings.

Gryder released his latest theory and images of the parachute, with the FBI reportedly contacting the McCoys to see the evidence themselves.

The McCoys told the Daily that the FBI searched the North Carolina complex for further clues and took possession of the parachute in 2023, with Rick also providing investigators with a DNA sample.

The agents reportedly told him that the next step might be to exhume his father’s body, but no such request has yet been made.

The FBI has not made any public statements about the investigation or confirmed that it is actively investigating the DB Cooper case.

The agency said the case was officially closed in 2016 due to a lack of leads.

Whether Cooper survived the jump over a rugged, forested landscape somewhere between Seattle and Reno, Nevada, has never been confirmed.

One of the few clues to the kidnapper’s identity was his recovered black tie and a crumbled packet of $20 bills that matched the ransom serial numbers, unearthed by a young boy on a Columbia River sandbar in 1980.