News clippingFD-350 clipping, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, on Ingram family's discovery of Cooper ransom money13 February 1980page 1 of 6
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FD-350 (Rev. 12-5-78) (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) A-1 HERALD EXAMINER LOS ANGELES, CA Date: 2/13/80 Edition: Wednesday. Latest

Title: D.B. AND THE MONEY

Character: or DAMV Classified 164-497 Submitting Office: Los Angeles

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D.B. and the money

VANCOUVER, Wash. — Twelve packets of $20 bills, used eight years ago as part of the $200,000 paid to airline hijacker "D.B. that Cooper died in the hijacking Cooper," have been found on a attempt. Columbia River beach near here, Cooper's extortion effort was the the FBI announced yesterday. first time a jet had been hijacked Harold D. Ingram, 27, his wife, for ransom. A number of hijack- Patricia, 26, and their two sons, ings for cash have been carried out were picnicking on what is known since the Cooper escapade. as Tena's Bar last Sunday when Baker said the FBI could not be their older son discovered the certain how much money was in money. the packets, but said it amounted Eight-year-old Brian Ingram was to "several thousand dollars." helping his father gather firewood The money has been sent to the and had scooped out sand for a FBI laboratory in Washington, fire. As his father was about to D.C., and Baker hopes the lab will drop an armload of wood, young be able to pick fingerprints off the Ingram said, "Wait a minute, bills, which could lead to the Daddy." suspect. Recalling his find yesterday, "That would be a hell of a Brian said, "I seen that money, I break," he said. thought, wow." But his parents remained calm, the son recalled. They thought it was counterfeit. The tattered and worn bills young Ingram found were the first to be recovered by law enforcement agencies since Nov. 24, 1971, when a passenger hijacked a Northwest Airlines Boeing 727. The man, identified on the flight list as Dan Cooper, parachuted out of the airliner somewhere over southwestern Washington. The serial numbers on the bills discovered by young Ingram matched those on the money given Cooper by the FBI in 1971.

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