I talked to a NorthWest airlines guy years after-the airline gave him a training parachute-sewn shut so students could learn how to fold it. He used it to jump. Years later hikers found a few bills about twenty miles from where he roman-candled into something, found them in the wash of a stream. The serial numbers matched.
He’s dead, Jim.
During the 76-77 drought when lake levels were really low, a family on an outing found a bunch of the money buried in the silt. The low lake level made it easy to find. The family was filmed for the news report, and ironically, the father had outstanding warrants in another state.