While 200k was still quite of money in the 70s.
It wouldn’t go very far about 30 years later.
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What if he had bought a bunch of exxon stock?
Well,he was quite clever so anything is possible.
It’s my understanding that no bills with matching serial numbers, other than those found bundled along the Columbia River in 1980, have ever surfaced. This tells me the money was never spent and the hijacker died that night.