Posted on 03/24/2009 12:25:00 PM PDT by Dan B Cooper
Gary Larson looked out his window the other day and glimpsed perhaps the oddest scene he's seen in nearly 40 years of living beside the Little Washougal River in Clark County. There on the opposite bank stood a tall, bearded man, fishing pole in hand. Attached to his line was a bundle of $1 bills that he cast into the water and carefully watched as the river current washed over it.
Larson was witnessing the latest chapter in the search for the elusive D.B. Cooper.
Tom Kaye takes measurements along the banks of the Columbia River. Here he attempts to reconstruct the path of some of the ransom money from a 1971 hijacking of a Northwest Airlines flight from Portland to Seattle.
The fisherman was Tom Kaye, a retired owner of a paint-ball equipment business and amateur scientist from Sierra Vista, Ariz. This week, he led a team of investigators through the thick woods west of Vancouver and along the sandy shores of the Columbia River, trying to figure out what happened after the mysterious figure who became known as D.B. Cooper jumped out of an airliner more than 37 years ago.
The sleuths include Brian Ingram, a building contractor from Arkansas. Now 37, Ingram was 8 years old tossing a Frisbee with family members on a sandbar along the Columbia when he discovered three stacks of $20 bills totaling $5,800, part of Cooper's payoff.
"My hair started standing up," Ingram said of his return to Tena Bar, where he found Cooper's loot.
(Excerpt) Read more at oregonlive.com ...
I miss his Far Side comics.
Hey, welcome to Free Republic!
That’s what I thought of first too!
Picture the cartoon with the fisherman. “Wally tries again to lure a big buck in”.
D. B. Cooper ping
Tom Kaye, former NASA scientist, and creater of the Automag line of paintball guns...Good guy.
Sorry, he died a few years ago trying to break out of Fox River prison.
So, are they getting close?
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