The FBI has decided to crank up its search for D.B. Cooper, the guy who skyjacked a plane in 1971 and jumped out with $200,000 in cash; he was never seen again.

FBI makes new plea in D.B. Cooper case

FBI agent Larry Carr has this special theory of how to solve the D.B. Cooper mystery.

Maybe, he said, some clever hydrologist armed with satellite technology can trace the Cooper cash found on the Columbia River in 1980 back to the very creek or stream where it fell from the sky on that fabled night in 1971. That might lead to the body of Cooper itself.

On Monday, the FBI renewed its plea for help from the public in solving the case in a news release that took the top spot Monday on the FBI Web site.

Carr, a special agent in the Seattle office — and an avowed D.B. Cooper buff — took over the Cooper case file last year and has been ratcheting up its profile.

"It's a mystery, frankly," the FBI said in the Monday news release. "We've run down thousands of leads and considered all sorts of scenarios. And amateur sleuths have put forward plenty of their own theories. Yet the case remains unsolved. Would we still like to get our man? Absolutely."

On Nov. 24, 1971, Thanksgiving eve, the man who bought a ticket as Dan Cooper hijacked a Northwest Orient flight from Portland to Seattle. He collected four parachutes and $200,000 in ransom money in Seattle and then leapt out the back stairwell as the plane flew south somewhere over Ariel, Cowlitz County, on a cold, nasty, rainy night. --Seattle Times (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004102307_dbcooper01m.html)

Given that Cooper's jump spot is about 10-15 miles as the crow flies from my house, I think I'm going to start wandering through the woods around here. Who knows? I could find the other $194,000 (besides the cash found on the Columbia River, not a single bill has ever shown up in circulation)!

Hey. It could happen. :banana:

go for it! just don't admit where you found it.

how does your state handle escheat?

go for it! just don't admit where you found it.

how does your state handle escheat?

I honestly don't know, but given that the FBI is so intent on solving this mystery, I'd guess that they'd pounce on me like a duck on a June bug. Of course, this is assuming the money would be in good enough condition to use. The $5,800 that was found in 1980 was pretty beat up...

http://www.fbi.gov/headlines/tiemoney122607.jpg

Still, I could always write a book about finding it and make a helluva lot more than $200,000!

:)

trust me on this! if you "find" it, find it on your property:thumbs:

you'll have a better claim on it. it's abandoned property now and normally anything still on the land when a title passes hands is included in the sale.






i'm also sure that there are enough history freaks out there that would pay a premium for one of those $20s...i know i would.

The FBI has decided to crank up its search for D.B. Cooper, the guy who skyjacked a plane in 1971 and jumped out with $200,000 in cash; he was never seen again.



Given that Cooper's jump spot is about 10-15 miles as the crow flies from my house, I think I'm going to start wandering through the woods around here. Who knows? I could find the other $194,000 (besides the cash found on the Columbia River, not a single bill has ever shown up in circulation)!

Hey. It could happen. :banana:

Judgin by sums the bills I've seen lately,i really can't see how
a machine could sort bils w/o at least blushin.

It's pretty hard to believe Cooper survived.. he was going almost 200 mph when he jumped out of the plane, and had an old WW2 parachute with all that money weighting him down. AND he was over some pretty bad land to survive in.

As for the money.. none of it has been used in circulation.. ever.

Ar those pictures above real money from the D.B. Cooper jump?

Yup. That's his tie, too. From the FBI's page (http://www.fbi.gov/page2/dec07/dbcooper123107.html)...

It says that Cooper was not an experienced parachuter.. but then why did he have the wing buffers ( i think that's what they are called) set to EXACTLY 15 degrees, which most experts say is a smart move if you are going to jump out of plane.

It is just weird that he didn't tell the plane to slow down more... that's the weird part.