D. B. Cooper's ransom was only $200,000
While he holds a legendary status as a mastermind criminal who vanished into thin air, his actual monetary demand was shockingly modest by modern standards. In 1971, he strapped on a parachute and jumped out of an airliner with roughly two hundred thousand dollars, a sum that today wouldn't even comfortably cover a down payment on a modest suburban house.

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