Actually, it's been thirty years since this happened... ;0)
THIS LINK DOES NOT WORK. It was originally a link to the US News story about the Florida woman and her husband. The link now connects to a US News archieve access site from whence I assume anyone who wishes to do so can get back to the full story about the Florida woman. The story is in my view persuasive--her husband was in fact DB Cooper. http://www.usnews.com:80/usnews/issue/000724/mysteries/cooper.htm
Lets see here,if I was a hunter and found a dead cooper,$200,000,I think I would shovel and shutup
I saw him once with Elvis.
Cooper dove into a freezing rainstorm at 10,000 feet, wearing only a business suit and loafers. The temperature was 7 below zero, not counting a wind chill factor estimated at minus 70 because of the plane's speed of 200 mph. Ralph Himmelsbach, the FBI agent assigned to the case before his retirement in 1980, has long maintained Cooper was a bumbler and a fool.
If the cold didn't kill him, if he withstood the powerful turbulence, Cooper was still parachuting into dense forest at night, at the onset of winter, with no food or survival gear.
"It was a bad place to land, and it is doubtful we would ever find the body,"
If this is true, then who buried this money?:
$5,880 of his loot was found by a boy playing on the banks of the Columbia River in 1980.