FD-350 clipping, The Daily News (Longview): 'Reward offered for D.B. Cooper'
Document date 10 February 1982
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 46 p. 304 (DB Cooper-19144), News clipping, dated 10 Feb 1982 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-46%3A304-304
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Pg. B3, The Daily News Longview, Wash. Date: 2/10/82 Edition:
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Character: or Classification: SE164A-81 Submitting Office: SE
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Reward offered for D.B. Cooper
VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — An attorney from Modesto, Calif., with a taste for adventure is launching a search for the body of 1971 skyjacker D.B. Cooper.
Richard Tosaw, 56, is offering a $25,000 reward to anyone who can produce Cooper's remains. Tosaw will be in Vancouver on Thursday to begin organizing a search for the re- mains of the nation's most famous skyjacker.
The search is planned for area forests this summer.
Cooper parachuted from a Nor- thwest Boeing 727 jetliner on Nov. 24, 1971, with $200,000 he extorted from the airline.
The Californian has created Research Publishing Co. to market a book on his quest. The preferred title is, "I Found D.B. Cooper," but Tosaw said "My Search For D.B. Cooper" will have to do if his search is unsuccessful.
He has placed classified ads in Northwest newspapers reading: "$25,000 reward for the finding and delivery to me of the hijacker D.B. Cooper, whether dead or alive, offer[ed] good until July 1, 1982."
Asked if he had $25,000 in the bank to offer as a reward, Tosaw said, "I've got more than a million, ac- tually."
The Modesto Bee newspaper con- firmed Tosaw is a long-time at- torney there and a one-time FBI agent, believed to have extensive real estate holdings.
Tosaw said he left the FBI in 1955 for law, but now has time to devote to mysteries like the Cooper case. "I've always been interested in things like that," he said. "Things like treasure hunting. I think most people are."
Tosaw said that news stories and a movie about Cooper, coinciding with the 10th anniversary of his jump, drew his interest. After preliminary research, he said, "I'm sure he (Cooper) died in the attempt" and thinks the body must be somewhere in the surrounding hills. "The odds are he's still there."
He has asked for the FBI file on Cooper.
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Ralph Himmelsbach, the FBI agent who worked longest on the Cooper case and now retired, said in November he believes Cooper pro- bably landed somewhere in the Washougal River basin. He speculates that a packet of the ran- som money found in 1980 on a sandy beach west of Vancouver was pro- bably washed down to the Columbia River in later spring floods.
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SEARCHED _____ INDEXED _____ SERIALIZED _____ FILED _____ FEB 16 1982 FBI — SEATTLE
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DB Cooper-19144
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[guess: 1641]-81-8651
Serials: SE164A-81, [guess: 1641]-81-8651