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F . re a a “Tied the same thing: three were killed and the others were captured, the FBI said. - Children on a Sunday picnic found three bundles of bills — about $3,000 in $20 bills printed in 1963 and 1969 — « that were part of Cooper’s loot. The -serial numbers showed they * matched the $200,000 Cooper extort- ‘ed from Northwest Airlines in 1971. The partially decomposed clamps of + Money were being sent to the FBI . laboratory in Washington, D.C., but _ agents on the case were sure all of the bills found were from the loot. * FBI agents continued searching today’ at the beach on the Fazio Ranch where agents found bits of - bills in the same area where the * families had found the money in the “-sand Sunday. _ “They're very smait pieces of ~ money, about the size of a nickel,” said FBI agent Tom Nicodemus. He aSaig_some of the pieces of money oe, eT he Re eh * OM apron ea repent Bie SOE AF TRL CETTE S * a e nn nammemennnmteittna atte a eee were as deep as 3 feet beneath the " surface. “It indicates to us there’s been a lot of sand shift there and the money has been there for some time,” Nicodemus said. ' —_—_— The discovery of the money was — the first solid lead in the case since Cooper jumped from a Northwest Airlines flight after a hijacking that began at Portland. The hijacker, who actually used the name Dan Cooper on boarding the plane, told a stewardess he had a bomb in his briefcase and demanded $200,000 and four parachutes and to- be flown to Reno, Nev. He allowed the other passengers to leave the plane at Seattle where he got the money and chutes. , After takeoff, Cooper forced the — entire crew to the flight deck and while the plane was over southwest - Washington he jumped with his loot ae i % . Ree we into the freezing, rainy night. a * renee aK HE THOME ne); Goaper-9Q0>~