Rain was falling

Rain was falling. The temperature was below freezing. The terrain below was some of the most unforgiving wilderness in the continental United States. He was never seen again. In 1980, a young boy digging along the Columbia River found a small bundle of decayed bills. Partial serial numbers matched. They were from Cooper's ransom. But the rest of the money, and the man himself, was never found. The FBI investigated the case for over forty-five years before formally suspending active investigation in 2016. More than a thousand suspects were considered. None were charged. None were confirmed. No body. No parachute. No confirmed identity. He remains the only unsolved case of air piracy in American aviation history. The name D.B. Cooper was a press error. It spread so far it replaced whatever name he actually carried.