'Skyjacker, $200,000 Elude 3-Year Search' (UPI), Pittsburgh Press
Document date 24 November 1974
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Skyjacker, $200,000 Elude 3-Year Search
By B. J. McFARLAND PORTLAND, Ore. (UPI) — What happened to D. B. Cooper, history's first and only successful parachuting sky bandit? Where is he and where did he stash the cash? Three years ago on Thanksgiv- ing Eve Cooper boarded a North- west Orient Airlines flight in Port- land for a short hop to Seattle. The plane wasn't off the ground five minutes when it all started. Cooper, threatening to set off an explosive, demanded and got $200,- 000 in $20 bills delivered, along with three parachutes, to the plane in Seattle. After allowing the passengers to get off, he ordered the crew to fly the 727 to Reno, following a course down western Washington and Ore- gon before cutting across the mountains. Somewhere en route he bailed out the tail exit.
No trace of Cooper or the money ever was found.
It set off a chain of similar sky-
jackings that changed the face of air travel. But only Cooper beat the law at faking the money and jumping. The law still is looking for him. "The case is an active one, not only here but throughout the United States," said Julius Mattson, agent in charge of the Portland FBI of- fice. "We're still getting leads," he said, "but not quite as heavy as we were. The case still is in the public mind and when the public thinks of it, it also thinks of us. "There really has been no sub- stantive development. The work now is mostly eliminating possibil- ities, proving or disproving tips. "Not one of the $20 bills has turned up." Cooper apparently strapped the money to his body for the jump. A theory that he may have fallen into Lake Merwin east of Woodland in southwest Washington about 30 miles north of Portland could not be proved following an exhaustive search by the FBI and Army troops from Ft. Lewis, Wash.
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Pittsburgh Press 11/24/74
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64-81 - Sub B
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SEARCHED _____ INDEXED _____ SERIALIZED ___ FILED ___ DEC 2 1974 FBI — SEATTLE
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DB Cooper-23012
Serials: SE 164-81