D.B. Cooper Cash to Be Auctioned

For a man who's been missing for over 30 years, D.B. Cooper sure has been in the news a lot lately. Just last week, we reported that a parachute with possible connections to the mystery had been found in Clark County, Wash. Today, a 36-year-old man in Arkansas—who discovered three bundles of $20 bills on the shores of the Columbia River as an 8-year-old, which were proven to have belonged to Cooper—announced plans to auction off a few of his treasures. Before last week's discovery of Cooper's possible parachute, the deteriorated $20 bills were the only evidence found in the lone unsolved "skyjacking" case.

Brian Ingram discovered the bundles of bills in 1980, when he and his family were on a camping trip in Oregon. He discovered nearly $6,000 while trying to clear a spot in the sand for a campfire. Ingram's family contacted the FBI, who matched serial numbers from the discovered bills to those given to Cooper as part of his $200,000 ransom demand. The FBI kept 13 of the bills for evidence in case they were ever able to prosecute the case. An insurance company who payed the ransom also kept several of the $20 bills, but the majority were returned to Ingram.

Now a father of five, Ingram has decided to auction off 15 of the $20 bills through Dallas-based Heritage Auction Galleries. The auction will occur live and online, and is scheduled for June 13-14.

Wanted Bulletin of D.B. Cooper from 1971 from the FBI