Word: bomb
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When Joseph Hartzler, the lead prosecutor in the Oklahoma City bombing case, made his opening statement to the jury last month, he began with a story of two little boys. Just before 8 o'clock on April 19, 1995, Tevin Garrett's mother dropped him off at the day-care center in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. "Tevin, as so often happens," Hartzler said, "cried and clung to her." A two-year-old friend of Tevin's, Elijah Coverdale, was moved to sympathy. "Elijah," Hartzler continued, "came up to Tevin and patted him on the back, and comforted...
Jones is an intelligent, wily lawyer, and he has a strategy: to convince the jury that the the infamous John Doe No. 2 is still at large and may really have been the one responsible for the bombing. The prosecution presented no witnesses who testified to seeing the bomb being constructed, nor did it call anyone who placed McVeigh at the crime scene. Several people, though, have made statements to the FBI that they saw a man resembling John Doe No. 2 with McVeigh in the days before the bombing. So Jones does have an opening. But can he exploit...
...other key testimony, Eldon Elliott, the owner of Elliott's Body Shop in Junction City, Kans., pointed out McVeigh as the man who rented the Ryder truck from him. Dealers in fertilizer, racing fuel and other possible ingredients in the bomb testified that McVeigh had approached them trying to buy these products in very large quantities. Finally, Eric McGown, who worked at the Dreamland Motel in Junction City, the place McVeigh stayed in the days before the bombing, testified that he had seen McVeigh in a Ryder truck in the motel's parking...
...once the site of the Manhattan Project, the mother of all government secrets. Broadway Books is hoping it will have a best seller this summer with Los Alamos, a compelling and literate murder mystery from first-time novelist Joseph Kanon. Set amid the wartime development of the first atom bomb, the book has been compared to E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime for its intermingling of real and fictional characters. But a more apt comparison might be to the film Chinatown, with its small-scale moral muddles foregrounding grand-scale moral muddles...
DENVER: The message to the jury was simple: someone else bombed the Alfred P. Murrah building two years ago, not Timothy McVeigh. As the defense got underway in the Oklahoma City bombing trial, Oklahoma state medical examiner Fred Gordon detailed the task of matching 98 body parts with the 168 victims found in the rubble in gruesome testimony that left some jurors looking queasy. The last body part was the key to his testimony, if highly inconclusive as evidence: while eight bodies were found without left legs, nine left legs were found. The extra leg, Gordon said, did not match...