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D.B. Cooper still missing: Forty years after a hijacker calling himself D.B. Cooper parachuted from a Boeing 727 and vanished with $200,000 in cash, the FBI is investigating a new tip provided by a woman who believes the folk-hero legend was her uncle. Marla Wynn Cooper, 48, of Oklahoma City told the agency that the hijacker was Lynn Doyle Cooper, a logger and Korean War veteran who died in 1999. She claims to have heard Cooper discussing the hijacking with her father, and then returning with injuries suffered during his parachute jump into the wilderness. The FBI, however, said DNA evidence from Lynn Doyle Cooper failed to match that found on a tie the hijacker left on the plane. But because it’s unclear whether the DNA on the tie is the hijacker’s, the FBI said, it would continue to investigate Cooper’s tip.

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