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Apparently not. q John Reed, special agent in q charge of the F.B.I.’s Seattle of- fice reports the total number of q persons investigated so far on the 4 Cooper caper has exceeded 800. q {How many are they investiget- ing now? . 4 {I would estimate,” he said, 4 ‘fthat around 20 to 30 suspects are 4 involved.” : 4° The D. B. Cooper file, he con- 3 cluded, “‘is still very much open,” Robert Hawkins is a Seattle writer. _ What about reports of — the statute of limitations. | on the “D. B. Cooper” | Skyjacking being five years and running out this November? “John Reed, special | agent ‘in charge of the F.B.1.’s Seattle office says: _ ‘if a’pergon leaves the | jurisdiction; for the crime, and it's a capital offense, the statute never ‘talls’.’" Stan Pitkin, © United pace attorney in Seattle, grees, adding: " { "Although at the time pf. the offense, there was an uncertainty on the imple-, _méntation of a death pen- alty, this is, by act of Con- gress, a capital offense and the stafufe of fimita- ion does nof apply to (apital offenses.” | What if Cooper is dead, and some hunter one day runs across the $209,- 000? . “The money's contra- band,” Pitkin said, ‘and it doesn't belong to anyone ofher than Northwest Air. Lines.” " Besides, he explhined, the long-sought {noney would be subject to. being held .as evidence, so any such windfall ‘would be ill-gotten, and a very seri- ; ous offense,” DGS TE i ge et ett gg te oe DB Cooper-14879