I've put together this tool that might be of interest here
I love myself some True-Crime, Unsolved Mysteries and Heists. The D.B Cooper story ticks all the boxes, and also shares an excellent community cross-over with numismatics and banknote collecting.
I'm not sure if something like this is already available, however I've put together an identifier and tracker/notifier for matched D.C Cooper notes, manually extracting the entire serial list via the FBI scanned records (fun fact the list contains 9,998 entries, not 10,000, this forced me to triple check the count, please correct me if I missed 2)
My thoughts around the ransom notes are, even if they made their way into circulation, would the average person even make the connection, it's unlikely they would scour FBI historic records to attempt to find a match.
The tool I've put together does the following:
- Checks 100% Ransom Note match
confirms a legitimate ransom note
also checks:
- Matching Serial on different series / denomination
- Newer series notes containing a D.B Cooper serial within
These are novelty collectables, not an official ransom note but would make for an interesting prop / novelty note in the numismatic / banknote collecting community
I've also setup wishlist alerts, that when a user checks their banknotes, if they we're to find a ransom note, they can register it publicly and anyone with the ransom note on their wishlist will be notified
This all works in conjunction with checking many other collectables features, where casual collectors might not even be aware of ransom notes at all, in which case they will be alerted immediately they have something extremely sought after.
if interested in checking it out:
D.B. Cooper Ransom Note Checker
Will we find a ransom note in circulation? historically the stats are against us, but this is 1 more tool to help solve the mystery. While my hobby lands greater within the collecting side of things, I'm all ears for feedback / corrections if I've missed or made a mistake.