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    In 1971, a man calling himself Dan Cooper hijacked a plane from Oregon to Seattle, releasing the passengers in exchange for $200,000. He then parachuted from the plane with the ransom money and was never seen again, in what remains one of the longest FBI investigations. Decades later, a boy found $6,000 of the ransom money marked with special serial numbers along the Columbia River, but the fate of the rest is unknown.

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    In 1971, a man calling himself Dan Cooper hijacked a plane from Oregon to Seattle, releasing the passengers in exchange for $200,000. He then parachuted from the plane with the ransom money and was never seen again, in what remains one of the longest FBI investigations. Decades later, a boy found $6,000 of the ransom money marked with special serial numbers along the Columbia River, but the fate of the rest is unknown.

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    In 1971, a man calling himself Dan Cooper hijacked a plane from Oregon to Seattle, releasing the passengers in exchange for $200,000. He then parachuted from the plane with the ransom money and was never seen again, in what remains one of the longest FBI investigations. Decades later, a boy found $6,000 of the ransom money marked with special serial numbers along the Columbia River, but the fate of the rest is unknown.

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    It remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in the United States.

    In 1971, a man who called


    himself Dan Cooper hijacked a passenger plane from Oregon to Seattle where he freed the 36
    passengers in exchange for $200,000 in cash. As the nearly empty flight took off again, flying south, he
    parachuted out of the airplane with the ransom and was never seen again.

    But after 45 years in which hundreds of leads were probed and discarded, the F.B.I. said it was no longer
    actively pursuing what it called one of the longest and most exhaustive investigations in its history.

    No one knows who he was. Or someone does but is not telling. The F.B.I. has described him as a
    “nondescript” man. He appeared to be in his mid-40s, which if true would make him about 90 years old
    by now.

    What happened to the money?

    In 1980, a boy found a rotting package of twenty-dollar bills along the Columbia River worth $6000 and
    that marked by special serial numbers. Using an inflation calculator, the ransom of $200,000 in 1971
    would be equivalent to about $1.2 million today. It is unclear what happened to the rest of the money.

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