Josh Gates and Brian Ingram Search D.B. Cooper’s Money Site! | Expedition Unknown

walk to the area where Eric has determined the money was originally found I’m skeptical until I see who’s holding the fort Josh I’ve got a special guest here I know who this is what’s up man how you doing buddy Little Brian Ingram the only man who’s ever found DB Cooper’s money we refer to Brian as Cooper royalty Brian was just eight years old when he made the only true break in this case finding bundles of Cooper’s Ransom money on the beach here at Tina Barr so all told you found just under six thousand dollars of Cooper’s money correct would you like to see some of it you have it I do get out of here Cooper’s money like I have chills this is the real deal folks remnants of the actual bills that were carried through the air by our mystery Skyjacker this money went out that plane with DP Cooper

[00:57]that’s incredible thank you okay we have to be relatively close to where you found the money but it’s changed so much since then that’s right so how do we know right where the money was found here take a look at this thank you so this looks like old aerial footage that’s Craig this is footage taken from a news helicopter that was filmed during the FBI search you can see the agents on the beach right first thing that pops out here is how much Beach there is I mean it’s all sand it’s completely different there’s an old Gravel Road that you can see in the footage here that an FBI car is actually sitting on that’s part of what we walked on that Gravel Road is right up there right and utilizing landmarks I was able to identify the precise money fine spot they’ve got a still image from the

[01:42]footage that you’re looking at that shows a little better exactly money fine spot now somebody might say all this is well and good but isn’t the FBI all over this place the FBI did not search from the money fine spot back up to the gravel road I don’t know why should we pick up some metal detectors and some shovels I think so are you here to help a man there’s 194 thousand dollars still out there you’re a lucky charm Brian give me a shovel we grab our metal detectors and begin exploring the area from the shore up to the old Gravel Road our team is now Four Strong including Brian and Eric’s friend expert metal detectorist Jeff Morgan is it hard huh yeah yeah something down there but you got a strong hit right here something here what is that it’s an odd enough piece I

[02:37]just can’t tell what it is I mean it could be anything could be part of a barbed wire fence yeah interesting but hey it’s a start yeah all right keep looking the wire is just the beginning as we start to pile up the hits It’s like a feeder straw of some kind yeah yeah yeah that’s WD-40 can did Cooper jump with WD-40 shotgun shell okay we got a shotgun shell we got permission to be on this property right nice snail we were in the iron collection business yep it’d be rich [Music] now in terms of the actual money find spot Brian said it was right around here yeah that’s correct if you see that furthest Boulder out right there yes if you go out from there that’s exactly where the money was found in the water that’s correct nowadays the money fine spots about 15 feet offshore well it

[03:30]feels like one of us should probably get out there and check that out good luck Josh all right I’ll go foreign to get wet I trade in my detector for an aquatic model and Wade back into the search okay so around here two feet to the left of that shark over there all right there’s no sharks in Portland there’s no sharks right I program my phone’s GPS to zero in on the exact spot where Brian found Cooper’s cash [Music] get a hit there is literally a hit right here [Music] it’s like an old Spike you know the cool thing about this Josh this is exactly what I think DB Cooper went through in June of 1972 retrieving the money I mean DB Cooper could have been standing right here that’s right now we just got to see if he left anything else behind [Music] Eric yes hey check this out

[05:17]what is that look it’s like a butthole or inch or a buckle yeah yeah those are clearly two rivets and it looks like the kind of piece you would have on a briefcase I mean it really does I mean what else would you use it for I don’t know very cool I mean that’s pretty unbelievable it’s pretty intriguing okay that’s going right there I’m going back to that same area to keep searching things are heating up because like right in here big hit [Applause] [Music] oh Eric look at this come here come here come here come here check this out that’s a clasp that’s a clasp that is an absolute class there’s no doubt about that that looks like it’s off a briefcase that is definitely from a briefcase do we know what his briefcase looked like there’s no photo of it right no no photo at all we don’t

[06:38]know if it was metal or what the case was but that definitely looks like a clasp I could have gone to his briefcase and it is Rusted to high hell and look where this is this was found close to this these could be from the same thing I think I mean how could they not be from the same thing you got a clasp and you’ve got what appears to be some sort of hinge or something like that I’m kind of flabbergasted because I mean we’re at v-spot the money spot that’s right that could actually be the very first piece of evidence we found related to DB Cooper since the money in the same spot that’s insane that is very cool unbelievable oh my word oh [Music] okay I need to go back and see if there’s anything else in here standby [Music] up with any more hits out there

[07:36]it’s all quiet now not a I scanned the water up and down the bank to be sure there’s nothing else to find and soon the sun begins to set on Tina Barr and on this chapter of my hunt for DB Cooper in the days that follow we conclude that the serial number on the tag found in Cle Elum doesn’t match the registry of any known components of a parachute canopy container or harness the hinge and clasp found at Tina Barr have been carefully examined and appear to match those found on many soft briefcases from the 1960s and 70s Unfortunately they also match any number of other containers and are therefore compelling but inconclusive for me the biggest headline here is the discovery of the diatoms on Cooper’s cash new forensic evidence in a case that’s supposedly cold but feels significantly hotter today