Brian Ingram was 8-years old when he found $5,800 of Cooper's ransom

Wayne Walker

In 1980 (9 years after the Cooper hijacking), then 8-year-old, Brian Ingram was camping with his parents along the Columbia River in Washington state, when he found a wad of rotting 20-dollar bills buried in the sand. The serial numbers on the money were cross-referenced with the serial numbers of the Cooper ransom money, and it was discovered to be a match.

Wayne Walker

After the wad of "Cooper loot" was discovered along the Columbia Rover on Tena Bar, federal agents combed the area and continued digging and searching for more of the money.

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Some of the actual money Brian Ingram found along the banks of the Columbia River. This money was traced, b=via serial numbers, back to being the random money demanded during the D.B. Cooper hijacking.

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Part of the $5,800 of the Cooper ransom that was unearthed along the north bank of the Columbia River by 8-year old Brian Ingram.

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Part of the $5,800 of the Cooper ransom that was unearthed along the north bank of the Columbia River by 8-year old Brian Ingram.

Wayne Walker

Part of the $5,800 of the Cooper ransom that was unearthed along the north bank of the Columbia River by 8-year old Brian Ingram.

Wayne Walker

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Brian Ingram was 8-years old when he found $5,800 of Cooper's ransom

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