Maybe the D.B. Cooper mystery will finally be solved, after all. In case you don’t remember, D.B., or Dan Cooper (pictured in an FBI drawing) hijacked a Boeing 727 on Nov. 24, 1971, demanded a ransom of $200,000, got it, then jumped out of the plane with the cash and into infamy.

He disappeared, and so did most of the money ($5,800 was found), and the FBI officially stopped investigating in July 2016. But that hasn’t stopped the questions, or the attempts by others to get the answers, a recent Fox News story reports (http://tinyurl.com/DBagain).

A Pacific Northwest team of volunteer cold case investigators, assembled by TV and film executive Thomas Colbert, and his wife, Dawna, have been looking for D. B. Cooper evidence for years (https://dbcooper.com). The couple confirmed to Fox News recently that they’ve discovered “potential evidence” in what “appears to be a decades-old parachute strap.” The 16-inch long piece of nylon, hopefully belonging to the hijacker’s parachute, was found “right where a credible source claimed the chute and remaining money are buried.”

By the way, the Colbert team still claims that D. B. Cooper is Robert Rackstraw, whom the FBI cleared years ago. Colbert also claims that Rackstraw posed as Norman de Winter, who stayed in Astoria, posing as a Swiss baron, in the early 1970s (http://tinyurl.com/DBdeWinter). In 2016, Colbert offered at $500 reward to anyone who had a photo of de Winter, so he could compare it a photo of Rackstraw, but there were no takers, apparently.

As of Monday, Colbert had turned the new evidence over to the FBI (http://tinyurl.com/DBagain2), and told them the location of the so-far secret site where it was found. Colbert told the agent, “the site is yours.”

“… I can reassure you that the FBI’s Seattle Field Office will review any physical items possibly related to the parachute or money taken by the NORJAK hijacker,” Ayn S. Dietrich-Williams of the FBI’s Seattle office told Fox News. “Based on that review, the FBI will take any appropriate action.”

Like reopening the official investigation, perhaps?