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A fragment of the ransom money procured by famed skyjacker DB Cooper reportedly sold for around ten times its estimated value at a recent auction. The $20 Federal Reserve note which produced the expensive remnant was among the three bundles of bills discovered back in 1980 by Brian Ingram during a family vacation in Vancouver, Washington. After the FBI confirmed that the money was from the infamous 1971 caper, they turned a portion of the historic loot back over to Ingram and his family, which has since sold select pieces of the ransom money to collectors.
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