Summary Of D. B. Cooper: The Real Mccoy

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About two years later, He and a group of convicts escaped by stealing a truck and crashing it through the main gate of the prison. Right away the FBI started to look for them, and a couple of months later they located McCoy hiding Virginia. As the FBI closed in, McCoy shot at the FBI agents, and agent Nicholas O'Hara fired back, and killed him. When agent O’Hara was later asked about the shooting he responded with, "When I shot Richard McCoy, I shot D. B. Cooper at the same time.”
Almost twenty years later, former FBI agent Russell Calame wrote a book that was called “D.B. Cooper: The Real McCoy.” They claimed that D.B Cooper and Richard McCoy jr., were really the same person. Some of the reasons why they believe this, is that they had almost

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