D.B. Cooper: How A Child Found His Money Nine Years Later Pt. 2
6/17/202628 min
Nine years after D.B. Cooper vanished, an eight-year-old boy digging a fire pit on the Columbia River pulled three rotting bundles of ransom money out of the sand. It was the first physical evidence in nearly a decade, and it raised more questions than it answered.
In part two of three, Katie Ring follows the FBI's hunt: the copycat who may have been Cooper himself, the secret hidden in his tie for 36 years, and the suspects investigators could never fully rule out.
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Katie Ring· Host0:47
On a cold November night in 1971, a man known as DB Cooper jumped out of a plane with $200,000 in cash, and he was never seen again. The FBI had a tie, a strand of hair, and cigarette butts with no fingerprints. That was it. For years, the investigation inched forward. Tips came in by the thousands. Suspects were investigated and cleared. The case became a cultural obsession, and then nine years after the hijacking, an eight-year-old boy digging a fire pit on the bank of the Columbia River pulled three rotting bundles of $20 bills out of the sand. The serial numbers matched, the money was real, and it raised more questions than