FD-350 clipping, Evening Outlook: 'Parachute, Skull Found Near Hijack Jump Area' with UPI photo
Document date 13 January 1975
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 61 pp. 126–128 (DB Cooper-25292–25294), News clipping, dated 13 Jan 1975 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-61%3A126-128
FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63)
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Parachute, Skull Found Near Hijack Jump Area
PORTLAND, Ore. (UPI) — A skull found near a weathered parachute in Mt. Hood National Forest is the newest clue in the three- year search for the in- famous skyjacker "D.B. Cooper." A man calling himself by that name parachuted from a low-flying jetliner on Thanksgiving eve, 1971, with $200,000 in ransom money strapped to his chest. Neither he nor the money was ever seen again. South of the suspected jump area authorities Thursday found the skull believed to be that of a person in his early 30s. A parachute was in a nearby tree at the site 10 miles east of Estacada, Ore. Dr. Larry Lewman of the state medical examiner's office said Friday. "That naturally led us to wonder whether the skull might be Cooper's," Lewman said. An FBI spokesman said he doubted the man who hijack- ed a Boeing 727 on a flight from Portland to Seattle, Wash., could have landed where the skull was found. He said the flight pattern and winds on the night of the hijack "seem to rule out" the location. Earlier FBI investigations turned up parachute harnesses and skulls in the suspected jump area. None has helped agents find Cooper or the missing $200,000. Lewman said he put the FBI onto the skull after he heard [illegible] parachute.
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P. 4 EVENING OUTLOOK SANTA MONICA, CA
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Date: 1/11/75 Edition: Saturday 3 Star Author: Editor: Robert D. Funk Title: NORJAK
Character: or Classification: LA-164-497* Submitting Office: Los Angeles
[X] Being Investigated
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SEARCHED.............INDEXED............ SERIALIZED...Am/a....FILED..A.E.[illegible] JAN 13 1975 FBI - LOS ANGELES
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DB Cooper-25292
"I understand that kids in the area have been trying to shoot the parachute out of the tree for about three years," the doctor said. "When the snow melts, we can go up there and find more bones and maybe a billfold that will tell us his name."
Conditions were poor for a jump when "Cooper," dressed in oxfords and a business suit, plummeted into the cold air. Investigators have subse- quently agreed with the opi- nion of an FAA regional security chief:
"One of these days some hunter in Oregon or Washington is going to find the skeleton of this man screwed into the ground up to the elbows."
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DB Cooper-25293
MYSTERY SKULL -- Dr. Larry Lewman, assistant state medical examiner in Portland, Ore., examines skull found by Forest Service employes in Mt. Hood National Forest 10 miles east of Estacada, Ore. Authorities are investigating to determine if the skull is that of D. B. Cooper, who hijacked a Northwest Orient Airlines plane in November, 1971, and parachuted from plane while enroute to Reno, Nev. from Seattle. Cooper and $200,000 he got from Northwest Orient were never found. (UPI Telephoto)
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DB Cooper-25294
Serials: LA 164-497