Dirty Money

Did you hear the one about the guy who parachuted out of the plane he'd just hijacked clutching a bag filled with $200,000 in stolen cash -- only to disappear? No, it's not a joke; it's the story of DB Cooper, the 1971 mystery in which neither Cooper nor the marked money was found.

However, in 1980, a young boy, 8-year-old Brian Ingram, playing along the banks of the Columbia River, found wads of the decomposing twenty dollar bills from Cooper's heist. A few years later, at age 14, Ingram was given a portion of the found money as a sort of 'finder’s fee', but the finder's not playing keepers; he's now auctioning them off.


So is his ex-wife, Christy Austin, who received some Cooper bills during their marriage, claiming the proceeds are earmarked for their daughter, Kara.

Austin claims Ingram, her ex-husband, owes $60,000 in child support for Kara and says, "I wanted to see if I could sell one of mine. Since our daughter may never see the majority of her child support Brian owes her, I thought this may be a way to add to her college savings fund I have for her."

And that's how dirty wads of Cooper's money are now a part of Kara's family tree and her own sex history.