FBI: Parachute found in SW Wash. was not D.B. Cooper's
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Investigators reached that conclusion after speaking with parachute experts, including Earl Cossey, who packed the chutes provided to Cooper that rainy November night in 1971. (article 2)
DALLAS - A boy who found the lone piece of evidence linked to the world's only unsolved skyjacking is now a 30-something father of five who has decided to start selling his treasure. (article 4)
Brian Ingram was an 8-year-old on a family camping trip when he discovered three bundles of deteriorating $20 bills on the shore of the Columbia River near Portland, in 1980. (article 4)
VANCOUVER, Wash. - A recently discovered parachute could not have been used by D.B. Cooper in 1971, says the man who packed the four chutes that were given to the mysterious skyjacker. (article 3)
The torn, tangled parachute - found about a month ago by children along a dirt road near Amboy - was probably made around 1945, said Earl Cossey, who examined the chute for the FBI on Friday. (article 3)
After the plane landed at Seattle, he released the passengers in exchange for $200,000 and four parachutes and asked to be flown to Mexico. (article 3)
Cossey, who sold parachutes at a skydiving operation in Issaquah in the 1970s, had provided the chutes that the FBI gave Cooper. (article 3)
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Cooper, Parachute, Cossey, FBI, chute |
Source articles
- FBI: Parachute found in SW Wash. was not D.B. Cooper's (seattletimes.nwsource.com, 04/01/2008, 572 words)
- FOXNEWS.COM HOME > U.S. (FOX News, 04/02/2008, 512 words)
- Parachute isn't D.B.'s: chute salesman :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Nation (suntimes.com, 03/31/2008, 323 words)
- D.B. Cooper bills up for sale (seattletimes.nwsource.com, 04/01/2008, 449 words)
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