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D.B. Cooper skyjacking cash sold
Saturday, June 14, 2008 | No comments posted.
DALLAS (AP) — Fifteen tattered $20 bills from the 1971 D.B. Cooper skyjacking sold for more than $37,000 at an auction.
That figure announced Friday was two to three times higher than expected, according to Heritage Auction Galleries of Dallas.
Winning bidders paid about $6,500 each for two of the $20 bills.
The money has the handwritten initials of investigators who examined the money when it was found buried in sand nine years after the skyjacking.
Cooper skyjacked a flight from Portland to Seattle, claiming he had a bomb.
He released the passengers at Seattle for $200,000, four parachutes and a flight to Mexico.
On that flight, he jumped out with a parachute near the Oregon-Washington border and never was found.
That figure announced Friday was two to three times higher than expected, according to Heritage Auction Galleries of Dallas.
Winning bidders paid about $6,500 each for two of the $20 bills.
The money has the handwritten initials of investigators who examined the money when it was found buried in sand nine years after the skyjacking.
Cooper skyjacked a flight from Portland to Seattle, claiming he had a bomb.
He released the passengers at Seattle for $200,000, four parachutes and a flight to Mexico.
On that flight, he jumped out with a parachute near the Oregon-Washington border and never was found.
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