D. B. Cooper Money Ransom Money is Being Auctioned on eBay
In 1980 Brian Ingram 8 year old Brian Ingram was digging with his Dad on a sandy river bank in Washington State. He was lucky enough to find nearly $6,000 in rotting twenty dollar bills. These turned out to have serial numbers from the ransom money obtained by D. B. Cooper.
On November 24, 1971 D. B. Cooper hijacked a Northwest Orient Airlines jet flight 305 from Washington DC demanding and getting $200,000 in ransom money. He then parachuted out of the plane somewhere over Washington State. He has never been caught or positively identified. Nor has any of the money with the exception of the $6,000 found by Brian Ingram been found hidden or in circulation. D. B. Cooper has become one of the most mysterious and sought after legends in American crime folklore.
Brian Ingram has grown up and is auctioning one half of his small share of the found loot on auctions sponsored by Heritage Auction Galleries, which also appear on eBay Auctions. Insurance companies which paid the ransom kept the majority of the found money. The opening bid per bill is $750 on eBay but there is an expectation that the final price may be as high as $1,500 each at the end of the auction. There is also a 22.5% buyers premium tacked onto each item sold.
To see the bills on eBay, search on the keyword: D. B. Cooper.
Published by Stephen Joltin
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- D. B. Cooper ransom loot being auctioned
- The opening bid per bill is $750 but higher bids are expected
- The bills appear on eBay auctions
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Don't know how I missed this one. The "D.B. Cooper" legend has always fascinated me -- I would so love to find out either where he is, if he lived, or where his remains are, if he didn't. I'd heard about some of the money being found, but read that despite a major search effort in that area, they'd found nothing else. I can't imagine paying that much for a piece of the money, though; I'm not THAT fascinated by it! Good one, Steve!
The DB Cooper tale is a fascinating one, the find makes it ready for the screen. Great report here, Stephen.
This is so interesting. I hope that some day they solve this mystery.
I hadn't heard of this. Neat!
The Auction for the first two D. B. Cooper $20 bills yielded about $6,500 for each bill. This was way above expectations of the Auction House.
I'm with Sullivision. I worry about anyone who would pay $750 for a rotten twenty dollar bill. Great story!
Cheryl, I would agree but a 12 year old boy found it digging in the sand 10 years after the event. He is going to use the money he gets to send his children through college. So maybe something good will come of it.
This happened the year before I was born. I wouldn't want my hands to be dirty touching that money, and I am not talking about dirt as in mud. That is filthy money, something someone stole and hurt others, I wouldn't even be paid to touch that money, let alone the other way around--and pay for it. It sounds like some of the material found on the History Channel. Hope I catch more of this one day there since I have so many recorded each week. We know your Rats story will be on there soon! Can't wait! Great job on this Stephen.
Sullivision, DB Cooper is before your time since his hijacking was in 1971 and you weren't born yet (I'm so jealous). However, for us older folk DB Cooper is a folk legend. Of course not all in a good way since he broke the law but in a way like Lizzie Borden who has many thousands of people who are still trying to solve that crime. Those mushed $20 bills have a firm place in history. I I were rich I would buy one :-)