D.B. Cooper Lead?

[ImWithStupid]

This is cool. I've been intrigued by the whole D.B. Cooper story since I was a kid.

 

Possible D.B. Cooper chute investigated

 

By CASEY MCNERTHNEY

P-I REPORTER

 

The FBI has obtained a parachute found where hijacker D.B. Cooper is believed to have jumped, and the bureau is seeking the public's help in what may be a major break in the world's only unsolved hijacking.

 

The parachute -- similar to the one Cooper jumped with -- was unearthed earlier this month after a Clark County man plowed part of the rural property he's owned for nearly a decade, said Larry Carr, the lead agent on the Cooper case. The man's children found the parachute when they were playing and Carr, who is based in Seattle, retrieved it from southwest Washington.

 

"If D.B. Cooper had pulled his chute not long after that jump, he would have landed in that area," Carr said. "Is this D.B. Cooper's parachute? We don't know yet."

 

On Nov. 24, 1971, a man who identified himself as Dan Cooper boarded a commercial Portland-to-Seattle fight and demanded $200,000 and four parachutes.

 

One of the parachutes was left on the plane; another was cut to secure the ransom money he leapt with about 20 miles north of Portland, going 196 mph, 10,000 feet in the air, according to FBI records.

 

Possible D.B. Cooper chute investigated

[wez]

This is cool. I've been intrigued by the whole D.B. Cooper story since I was a kid.

 

 

 

Possible D.B. Cooper chute investigated

 

 

Me too.. be nice to finally know the final chapter.. That's cool.. Gonna have to check it out when I get a chance.

[snafu]

Get out the sand screens and start sifting for bones.

[Old Salt]

Get out the sand screens and start sifting for bones.

And money?

[ImWithStupid]

There was that kid who found a bunch of $20 bills along the Columbia River about 25 years ago. I wonder how far that was from where this parachute was found.

[snafu]

There was that kid who found a bunch of $20 bills along the Columbia River about 25 years ago. I wonder how far that was from where this parachute was found.

 

And I wonder if the money was found down stream from where the parachute was.

[Guest schoolmom]

Oh darn it. I just heard on the radio this morning how much money it was and where in relation to the parachute it was, but now I don't remember. For some reason circa 20 miles away and I don't think down or up stream, (but don't quote me) seems familiar. I wasn't paying as much attention as I didn't know this thread was here. I think the money amounted to circa $2,500 or so.

[ImWithStupid]

Oh darn it. I just heard on the radio this morning how much money it was and where in relation to the parachute it was, but now I don't remember. For some reason circa 20 miles away and I don't think down or up stream, (but don't quote me) seems familiar. I wasn't paying as much attention as I didn't know this thread was here. I think the money amounted to circa $2,500 or so.

 

I read something that if the chute is D.B. Cooper's then, it blows up the theory that the money naturally flowed downstream to where it was found, but may have been transported.