In 1980, an 8-year-old boy discovered $5,800 of D. B. Cooper’s ransom money decomposing along the banks of the Columbia River, more than eight years after the h

In 1980, an 8-year-old boy discovered $5,800 of D. B. Cooper’s ransom money decomposing along the banks of the Columbia River, more than eight years after the hijacker disappeared. On November 24, 1971, a man calling himself Dan Cooper hijacked Northwest Orient Flight 305, demanding $200,000 and fo…