Cooper skyjacking cash sells for $37K at auction

DALLAS — Fifteen tattered $20 bills recovered from the 1971 D.B. Cooper skyjacking sold Friday for more than 120 times their face value at a Dallas auction. Heritage Auction Galleries said the bills sold for a total of more than $37,000 — two to three times higher than expected. In this photo released by Heritage Auction Galleries June 13, 2008, a fragment of one of the fifteen tattered $20 bills recovered from the infamous 1971 D.B. Cooper skyjacking is shown. The items sold for more than $37,000 at an auction, according to the auctioneers, two to three times higher than expected. (AP Photo/Heritage Auction Galleries of Dallas) Winning bidders paid about $6,500 each for two of the $20 bills. The money has the handwritten initials of investigators who examined the bills, which were found buried in sand in 1980. Another... [read full story]