4 Wednesday, August 11, 2021 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon Crime historian conducts dig for D.B. Cooper case evidence VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) 4 Nearly 50 years after skyjacker D.B. Cooper van- ished out the back of a Boeing 727 into freezing Northwest rain 4 wearing a business suit, a parachute, and a pack with $200,000 in cash 4 a crime historian is conduct- ing a dig on the banks of the Columbia River in Vancouver, Washington, in search of evidence. KOIN reports that Eric Ulis, a self-described expert on the infamous D.B. Cooper case, began a two-day dig on Friday. Ulis and four volun- teers are searching for evi- dence about 10 to 15 yards away from where a boy found $6,000 of Cooper9s ransom money in 1980. Ulis said his theory is that Cooper buried the parachutes, an attaché case and the money at the same time, but dug smaller holes instead of one large one. The case of Cooper has become infamous, not only in the Pacific Northwest but also in the country. The FBI Seattle field office called the investigation one of the lon- gest and most exhaustive in the agency9s history. On November 24, 1971, the night before Thanksgiving, a man described as being in his mid-40s with dark sun- glasses and an olive com- plexion boarded a flight from Portland to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Sea- Tac). He bought his $20 ticket under the name