An expert claimed infamous plane hijacker DB Cooper has been revealed through DNA technology to be a North Carolina father named Richard Floyd McCoy Jr.

McCoy’s children – Chanté and Richard III “Rick” – contacted YouTube investigator Dan Gryder after their mother’s death and confessed that they believed their parents were behind the mystery surrounding DB Cooper’s kidnapping.

Now, Gryder tells DailyMail.com in a bombshell update that FBI agents asked Rick to provide a DNA sample and there were startling results.

Gryder claimed there were parts of Rick’s DNA that were a “perfect match” to DB Cooper’s, possibly indicating a partial match with a relative.

The FBI now plans to exhume his body where it currently lies buried on the family’s property, Gryder added.

The iconic hijacker, whose true identity was long unknown, seized a Boeing 727 at Seattle-Tacoma Airport on November 24, 1971 and held its crew and passengers hostage with a bomb threat.

He demanded $200,000 in cash – the equivalent of $1.2 million today. After receiving the money – and four parachutes – he let the crew take off before skydiving over the dense forests of the Pacific Northwest. From there he disappeared without a trace.

One of the few clues in the case is DNA found on a clip-tie left on a plane in 1971.

On November 24, 1971, an unknown man named DB Cooper hijacked a Boeing 727 at Seattle-Tacoma Airport and demanded $200,000 in cash

After his demands were met and placed on the plane, Cooper had the crew take off before jumping from the plane

There have been many suspects over the years, including Richard Floyd McCoy Jr. (pictured), who was convicted of an eerily similar plane hijacking just months after the Cooper case

After reviewing the similarities between the DNA, Gryder told DailyMail.com that investigators are now asking that McCoy’s body be exhumed for investigation.

“All of (the McCoy children) were able to tell us that there are DNA markers, and they need more of those markers, and where they fell is the difference between the son’s DNA and the tie and the actual Richard Floyd McCoy,” he said.

“They’re looking for undeniable DNA that would give them more of these markers.” That’s where they were in the matter. And that’s why they asked to exhume the body, which is a big deal.”

“If the kids give their permission and they feel like they’re so close that they could match those final markings with what’s left on the plane compared to Richard Floyd McCoy himself.”

When contacted by DailyMail.com about the DNA testing, the FBI postponed its July 2016 announcement that it would no longer actively investigate the case.

But Gryder, who previously revealed how he discovered parachute equipment on the McCoy family farm in North Carolina that he believes Cooper used to escape, said he saw FBI agents on the property.

McCoy’s name has been debated by detectives for years and many believe the late man, who died after escaping from prison, was the famous hijacker.

They say this is due to the nearly identical raid that McCoy committed just a few months, five months after the Cooper raid in Utah.

One of the only possible DNA evidence from the crime scene is a clip tie (pictured) that was left on the plane in 1971

YouTube investigator Dan Gryder’s investigators want to do a DNA match with McCoy

In April 1972, McCoy jumped off a United Airlines flight over Utah after demanding $500,000.

Within 72 hours, the FBI arrested him after matching fingerprints left on the note and speaking to a witness who worked at a roadside restaurant and remembered selling McCoy a milkshake shortly after the robbery.

The FBI searched his house without a search warrant, which most likely did not allow them to blame him for the Cooper robbery.

He was sentenced to 45 years in prison for the Utah robbery, but later broke out of the maximum security zone along with three other prisoners.

Two were caught within days, while McCoy evaded capture for three months. He was later shot and killed by the FBI in his Virginia Beach home in 1974.