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 Posted: Sat May 07, 2011 1:31 pm Post subject: rounded" fashion |
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n February 1980, an eight-year-old boy named Brian Ingram, vacationing with his family on the Columbia River about 9 miles (15 km) downstream from Vancouver, Washington and 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Ariel, uncovered three packets of the ransom cash, significantly disintegrated but still bundled in rubber bands, as he raked the sandy riverbank to build a campfire.[68] FBI technicians confirmed that the money was indeed a portion of the ransom, two packets of 100 bills each and a third packet of 90, all arranged in the same order as when given to Cooper.[69][70]
The discovery launched multiple new rounds of conjecture, and ultimately raised many more questions than it answered. Initial statements by investigators and scientific consultants centered around assumptions that the bundled bills washed freely into the Columbia River from one of its many connecting tributaries. An Army Corps of Engineers hydrologist noted that the bills had disintegrated in a "rounded" fashion, and were matted together, indicating that they had indeed been deposited by river action, as opposed to having been deliberately buried.[71] If so, it was clear that Cooper had not landed (as many assumed) near Lake Merwyn, or any other part of the Lewis River, which feeds into the Columbia well downstream from the discovery site; and it lent credence to supplemental data (see Later developments, above) placing the drop zone near the Washougal River, which merges with the Columbia further upstream.[72]
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