How did 290 of the bills reach Tena Bar?
Most likely: a person placed, buried or lost the money on the bar, months or more after the hijackingAhead on the evidence, not yet confirmed. It needs two reviews to be accepted.
Where it stands
Four answers have been proposed. A person placed, buried or lost the money on the bar, months or more after the hijacking. leads, with evidence 3 for, 1 against: partly supported by its tests. Three are still possible.
Why it matters
The money is the one piece of the ransom ever recovered and lies 30 kilometres from the drop zone on a beach the Lewis River does not reach. Whatever carried it there constrains the landing site, survival and the hijacker's movements. It is also the question with the most data[1][2].
Answers 4
History
- Kaye & Meltzer: diatoms on the bills indicate a single spring or summer immersion, not years in the river.Against: The bundles washed down a tributary (the Washougal) into the Columbia and were deposited on the bar by the…
- Kaye & Meltzer: diatoms date the immersion to spring or summer, months after November 1971.For: A person placed, buried or lost the money on the bar, months or more after the hijacking.
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