The E-Sylum:  Volume 5, Number 48, December 1, 2002, Article 9

D. B. COOPER LOOT

  The other boo-boo was my statement that none of D.B.
  Cooper's ransom money had been found.  Terry
  Stahurski wrote: "Is it my imagination or did I read
  somewhere that some tattered currency was found a
  number of years ago in the Pacific Northwest that was
  possibly attributed to D.B Cooper's heist?"

  Well, Terry probably read it right here in The E-Sylum.
  From the referenced vol 4, no. 48 issue:

  "An 8-year-old boy digging a fire pit on a sand bar along
  the north bank of the Columbia River west of Vancouver
  on Feb. 10, 1980, unearthed $5,800 of Cooper's loot.
  The money, only inches below the surface, had eroded so
  badly that only Andrew Jackson and the serial numbers
  were left.

  Some believe the find showed Cooper landed in or near
  the Columbia River, but hydrologists concluded the tattered
  and still-bundled money was more likely deposited by a
  stream flow than human hands."

  All of the notes had been photocopied before being
  packaged for the hijacker.  So the serial numbers are
  known, and 290 of the bills have been recovered."

  ANA Museum Curator Larry Lee provides this followup:
  "There are at least five $20 bills still in the hands of the
  family that discovered three bundles of the notes ($5,800
  face) along the Columbia River, ten years after the incident.
  The ANA was planning on having a display case at the
  New York ANA Convention this year showing the bills,
  but after 911, an exhibit on planes and hijacking in New
  York was inappropriate, so the idea was shelved.  The
  $20 notes are in very, very poor shape, though their serial
  numbers do correspond to the FBI's list of the $200,000
  provided to the mysterious Mr. Cooper."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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