(July 19, 2011 at 6:18 pm)Chuck Wrote:(July 19, 2011 at 6:13 pm)Paul the Human Wrote: D.B. Cooper is one of my favorite 'mysteries'. I don't know why.
The fact that not one of the ten thousand twenty dollar bills he extorted ever appeared in circulation sort of took the mystery out of what happened to him after he jumped.
Quote: In February 1980, an eight-year-old boy named Brian Ingram, vacationing with his family on the Columbia River about 9 miles (15 km) downstream from Vancouver, Washington and 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Ariel, uncovered three packets of the ransom cash, significantly disintegrated but still bundled in rubber bands, as he raked the sandy riverbank to build a campfire.[68] FBI technicians confirmed that the money was indeed a portion of the ransom, two packets of 100 bills each and a third packet of 90, all arranged in the same order as when given to Cooper.[69][70]
The discovery launched multiple new rounds of conjecture, and ultimately raised many more questions than it answered.
From Wikipedia, not sure how they got buried there, could have been natural from the river.