Part 9, page 208
DB Cooper-912Serials SD 164-91, SD 164-91-172
Document date 14 February 1980
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 9 p. 208 (DB Cooper-912), News clipping, dated 14 Feb 1980, serial SD 164-91-172 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-09/pages/208
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FD-350 (Rev. 12-5-78)
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[top-right fields:] (indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) San Diego Evening Tribune San Diego, Ca.; A-3 Date: Thurs., 2/14/80 Edition: Final
Title: D. B. COOPER
Character: or Classification: 164-91 Submitting Office: San Diego
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Bills' clues may end D.B. Cooper enigma
PORTLAND, Ore. (UPI) — River engineers and geologists analyzing the mud around a wad of tattered bills may be able to pinpoint the spot where hijacker D.B. Cooper and at least part of the $200,000 ransom he collected nine years ago parted company, the FBI says.
The first trace of the money Cooper took with him when he parachuted out of a hijacked Northwest Airlines jetliner on a rainy Thanksgiving Eve in 1971 was found Sunday by a picnicking family.
FBI agents Tuesday and yesterday found additional fragments of bills nearby, in dredged-up material on the north shore of the Columbia River.
The river was last dredged in 1974, FBI agent Ralph Himmelsbach said. He said Army Corps of Engineers scientists and geologists will probably be able to determine whether the shore material surrounding the bills came from the middle of the Columbia River, washed downstream from the Washougal River or was carried upstream from the mouth of the Lewis River and dumped at the site.
"We have the Army Corps of Engineers and geologists out there," Himmelsbach said. "An agent who was out there said it looks like they'll be able to help us out."
The money found Sunday on the north shore of the Columbia River, about 5 miles northwest of Vancouver, Wash., was bound in packets with crumbling rubber bands. It totaled about $3,000 and the serial numbers checked matched numbers on the bills given to Cooper at Seattle when he hijacked a Northwest Airlines 727.
The money's location indicates the hijacker landed in the drainage of the Washougal River, which enters the Columbia upstream from the site.
Before learning the shore material had been dredged from the river, Himmelsbach said the $20 bills found by the children had been buried on the shore "probably for several years."
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164-91-172 SERIALIZED INDEXED FILED FBI — SAN DIEGO DOJ DB Cooper-912