(FD-350): 'Break in D.B. Cooper Case - FBI hunts more skyjacker loot near river', San Diego Evening Tribune
Document date 13 February 1980
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 9 pp. 204–205 (DB Cooper-908), News clipping, dated 13 Feb 1980, serial SD 164-91-170 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-09%3A204-205
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[Indicate page, name of] [sp]r, city and state.) [San] Diego Evening Tribune San Diego, Ca.; A-3 Date: Wed., 2/13/80 Edition: Final Title: D. B. COOPER Character: or Classification: 164-91 Submitting Office: San Diego
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BREAK IN D.B. COOPER CASE
FBI hunts more
[S]kyjacker loot near river
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PORTLAND, Ore. (UPI) — Children playing in the sand along the Columbia River found tattered remains of part of the loot paid to skyjacker D.B. Cooper. The find has triggered a search for more of the $200,000 ransom.
Discovery of the money was the first break in the case since Cooper bailed out of a plane into a rainy night in 1971.
FBI agents dug up more fragments of wet $20 bills late yesterday along the river on the Fazio Ranch five miles west of Vancouver, Wash. Agents continued the search today.
FBI agent Ralph Himmelsbach, who has been on the case since the Thanksgiving Eve hijacking, said the finding of the money reduces to "less than 50-50" the odds that Cooper is still alive.
Cooper's case is the nation's only unsolved aerial hijacking for ransom. Since then, 13 persons have [text truncated]
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[text continues from previous page] tried the same thing; three were killed and the others were captured, the FBI said. - Children on a Sunday picnic found three bundles of bills — about $3,000 in $20 bills printed in 1963 and 1969 — that were part of Cooper's loot. The serial numbers showed they matched the $200,000 Cooper extorted from Northwest Airlines in 1971. The partially decomposed clumps of money were being sent to the FBI laboratory in Washington, D.C., but agents on the case were sure all of the bills found were from the loot. FBI agents continued searching today at the beach on the Fazio Ranch where agents found bits of bills in the same area where the families had found the money in the sand Sunday. "They're very small pieces of money, about the size of a nickel," said FBI agent Tom Nicodemus. He said some of the pieces of money were as deep as 3 feet beneath the surface. "It indicates to us there's been a lot of sand shift there and the money has been there for some time," Nicodemus said. The discovery of the money was the first solid lead in the case since Cooper jumped from a Northwest Airlines flight after a hijacking that began at Portland. The hijacker, who actually used the name Dan Cooper on boarding the plane, told a stewardess he had a bomb in his briefcase and demanded $200,000 and four parachutes and to be flown to Reno, Nev. He allowed the other passengers to leave the plane at Seattle where he got the money and chutes. After takeoff, Cooper forced the entire crew to the flight deck and while the plane was over southwest Washington he jumped with his loot into the freezing, rainy night.
Serials: SD 164-91, SD 164-91-170