Back to searching rural Washington and Oregon! The FBI has confirmed that the parachute found in a Clark County, Wash., field is not infamous hijacker D.B. Cooper's. Parachute experts, as well as Earl Cossey, the man who packed the parachute given to Cooper the night of the hijacking, determined the recently discovered was not Cooper's. FBI spokesperson Robbie Burroughs crushed our mystery-loving hopes by saying, "From the best we could learn from the people we spoke to, it just didn't look like it was the right kind of parachute in any way." more ›

A decades-old mystery may be closer to being solved, thanks to a parachute that was found in Clark County. The parachute is currently being analyzed at an FBI lab in Seattle, in hopes it might be connected to D.B. Cooper. The case of Cooper, who hijacked a Northwest Orient Airlines plane in 1971 with $200,000 ransom, only to abandon the plane via parachute over Washington state, has long fascinated Washington residents and the FBI, alike. more ›