D. B. Cooper parachute found?
From
The Oregonian:
Feds check parachute for D.B. Cooper link
There could be a major break in the biggest crime mystery in Northwest history.
According to the KOIN (6) website: The FBI in Seattle has begun analysis of a long-buried parachute - the same type used by skyjacker D.B. Cooper when he jumped from an Northwest Orient Airlines 727 with a 25 pound money bag containing $200,000 dollars ransom on Thanksgiving eve 1971.
The children of a Clark County contractor found the parachute buried in a field that their father has recently plowed for a road. The chute is white and conical shaped, dirty and deteriorated. Seattle Agent Larry Carr will clean it and search for a label, which could match the chute to a companion reserve chute left behind by Cooper in the plane.
Carr, who's now in charge of the Cooper case, says the parachute was found near the center of the original jump zone identified by searchers in November 1971, between the towns of Ariel and Amboy, Washington. In 1980, a family on a picnic found $5,800 dollars of the loot on a Columbia River beach, near Vancouver. How it got there is another mystery. Some scientists believed the money bag traveled down the Washougal River, which is upstream from the beach, miles from where this parachute was recently found.
I would love to know what happened to him -- an American folk-hero in sort of a 'Robbin Hood' fashion. Take from the rich and give to himself. Hey D. B. -- if you are out there, please write your autobiography and see that it gets published when you pass away -- your story is too good to be left to the shadows of history...
Posted by DaveH at March 25, 2008 10:11 PM