Has the FBI found a clue in the case of the hijacker who got away?

The FBI is studying a torn and tangled parachute found by children in southwest Washington this week. They think it might be the parachute "DB Cooper" used 36 years ago when he hijacked a plane and made off with $200,000. It's the only domestic hijacking case that's never been solved.

On November 24, 1971, a man claiming to be Dan Cooper boarded a Portland to Seattle flight and DB Cooperdemanded $200,000 and 4 parachutes. He got the money, released the passengers and jumped off the back stairs of the plane roughly 20 miles north of Portland. The money disappeared along with him.

Until now.

Kids in Amboy found the parachute while playing. It was sticking out of the earth where their father had recently graded a road. The one they found is the same color as Cooper's and found near where authorities suspect he landed. Trouble is, the parachute doesn't have any obvious markings that link it indisputably to Cooper.

If it is Cooper's chute, a whole new mystery will open up. In 1980 a family found nearly $6,000 while picnicking on the Columbia River near Vancouver. Investigators think it's Cooper's money. But there's no way it could have made its way there from where the parachute was found.

Have they found DB Cooper's parachute?

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This is one unsolved mystery that I'd love someone to solve. What really happened to Cooper 36 years ago? What happened to all that money?