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If you are as intrigued by the mystery of D.B. Cooper as Seattlest is, but have more expendable cash than we do, we have just the auction for you!

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."

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.

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.