D.B. Cooper
The investigation
The investigation started straight away, the unknown fingerprints were taken from all the parts of the plane or parachutes that Cooper might have touched, many people were questions, including D.B. Cooper, resident of the area (in case the hijacker would use his real name). Due to mistake from one of the investigators instead of alias used as hijacker (Dan Cooper) media were given the alias D.B. Cooper (of other man) which remained as the name for the case and the hijacker.
According to the investigators Cooper jumped out of the plane over Washington and straight away they started the search of the area where he could have landed, but due to misunderstanding they were given wrong coordinates (of place according to planned route and not real one which was affected by the rainstorm). The later conclusion was that he landed somewhere near Washougal River in south-western Washington, which is large area of the mountainous wilderness.
Intensive search of the area provided no traces of Cooper nor anything he had with him (parachute or money). In February 1980 an 8-year-old boy named Brian Ingram, uncovered three packets of the ransom cash, significantly disintegrated but still bundled in rubber bands, as he raked the sandy riverbank of Columbia River. FBI technicians confirmed that the money was indeed a portion of the ransom - two packets of 100 bills each and a third packet of 90, all arranged in the same order as when given to Cooper.
To this day this is the only material evidence of hijacking. Dan Cooper was never found nor identified.
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