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VANCOUVER, Wash. - A team of scientists is in town, helping the Seattle FBI do something it hasn't been able to do on its own. They're trying to find new evidence that will lead to one of the Northwest's most notorious fugitives.
Tom Kaye's casting with cash, which tells you this is ordinary fisherman on the banks of the Columbia River.
Weird science - that's probably the better way to describe the fishing expedition that's going on this week near Vancouver.
Kaye is hoping his experiment can help reel in one of the biggest catches of all: the Northwest skyjacker known only as D.B. Cooper.
"It remains the only unsolved hijacking in U.S. history," said Kaye.
Kaye is a member of a scientific team that is in Washington state this week helping the FBI unearth new leads in the 38-year old cold case. The hijacker, an armed passenger calling himself Dan Cooper, demanded parachutes and ransom before his airliner left SeaTac Airport.
Nearly nine years after his daring jump, a family on an outing found some of the ransom money along the Columbia. Kaye, a paleontologist who normally digs up dinosaur bones, said his experiment may tell him if the money floated ashore or was planted there.
"What happens to bones and how they get preserved is the same question we ask about the money: How did it get buried and how did it get preserved?" said Kaye.
The scientists will examine more evidence, like the necktie Cooper left on the plane, at the Seattle FBI later this week.
The Cooper researchers say they've already de-bunked some myths about the Cooper case, but they won't go public with specifics until their research is complete, likely in the fall.
The scientists are volunteering their time to the case and are paying their own expenses.
A Doe walks out of the woods today and says, that is the last time I'm going to do that for Two Bucks.
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"The scientists are volunteering their time to the case and are paying their own expenses." See how long this lasts.
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They could be Republicans and will pay their own way.
A Doe walks out of the woods today and says, that is the last time I'm going to do that for Two Bucks.
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They could be Republicans and will pay their own way. Well, I might change "Republicans" to "Conservatives", but I agree with the sentiment. Unfortunately the two aren't as synonymous as they used to be. tq
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The FBI has probably spent more on the investigation than was originally stolen by DB Cooper.
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I believe that "Cooper" died in the jump. A night jump with no protective clothing into mountainous timbered country is not a recipe for succcess. On the other hand, if did live and kept the money, it has not shown up in banking channels.
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As djs says, it's never shown up in circulation...So if he didn't die, he went to a hell of a lot of trouble for nothing given that he never spent a dime of it.
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No doubt about it, he died in the jump and they just haven't recovered the body...case closed if you ask me. Why are we spending money on this?
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Why are we spending money on this? No Body. When they find a body, it will be closed. Until then, its a fun diversion. BMT
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If i was a betting man, i would say he ended up as a Bear Turd
A Doe walks out of the woods today and says, that is the last time I'm going to do that for Two Bucks.
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He was given a bag without a zipper and he lost the money in the jump. He escaped and tried the whole thing again correcting the mistakes he made the first time, was arrested and convicted on the second case. He went to jail escaped and will killed in NV if I remember right. Done deal.
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Why are we spending money on this? Because it's America and we just have money to piss away. Ask Obama.
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Why are we spending money on this? Because it's America and we just have money to piss away. Ask Obama. Rollin' here, 17.
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