Part 43, page 204

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was on a family picnic, helping build a fire, when he discovered the money. He and his cousin, Denise Ingram, 5, dug it from the sand, about 3 inches down. "I thought, 'Wow!' " Brian said. "I saw it was money and went over to my parents. They thought it was counterfeit." The boy's father, Harold D. In- gram, said he called the F.B.I. be- cause "I figured if anybody knew what to do it would be them." He said he did not connect the money with the D.B. Cooper loot. The money was described as looking like a ball of wet pulp. Agents said there could be any- where from $4,000 to $10,000 in the bundle. The serial numbers of the bills matched the numbers of the $200,000 taken by Cooper when he hijacked the plane, which was on a Portland-Seattle flight. The money was put aboard at the Seat- tle-Tacoma Airport. Cooper jumped out through the 727's rear loading steps somewhere in South- western Washington after order- ing the pilot to fly to Reno. Dorwyn Schreuder, an F.B.I. agent in charge of the beach search yesterday, said Cooper probably is not alive today. "If he were, I think he'd be with his mon- ey," Schreuder said. One earlier F.B.I. theory was that Cooper fell to his death in Lake Merwyn on the Lewis River. However, the Lewis River enters the Columbia downstream from where the money was found. Baker said he believes rewards offered in the D.B. Cooper case have expired. "But if there was a reward," Baker said, "I certainly would recommend that the In- grams get it." The discovery was the first ma- jor break for the F.B.I. in the hi- jacking. The hijacking was the first of its kind and the only one that remains to be solved.

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