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...same day that Stephen Jones announced he would be defending Timothy McVeigh in the Oklahoma City bombing case, he hired a security firm to protect his home outside Enid, Oklahoma. But that has not stopped the phone calls. Late last week the 54-year-old lawyer received a threat from someone the fbi believes is a known violent offender. "I have to take this seriously," Jones says. "The man said if I represented McVeigh, he was going to send a Ryder truck to my house and blow...
That task was made more difficult last week as evidence against Jones' client mounted, suspects were tracked down and prosecutors organized their case against McVeigh and his Army buddy Terry Nichols. The latest person drawn into the FBI's dragnet is Steven Garrett Colbern, 35, who was picked up Friday on an unrelated weapons charge in Oatman, Arizona. Colbern, a biochemist, lived in Oatman, about 20 miles from Kingman, where McVeigh once resided. There are a number of coincidences involving Colbern: he owns a brown pickup truck similar to one a witness allegedly saw alongside McVeigh's car in Perry...
Earlier in the week Nichols was charged with "malicious damage" to the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and with aiding and abetting McVeigh. According to an official affidavit presented last week, Nichols began stockpiling large amounts of fertilizer last September in several lockers near his home in Herington, Kansas. When agents searched Nichols' home after he turned himself in to police on April 21, they found 60-ft. primadet cords with blasting caps, fuel meters and a receipt for fertilizer that had McVeigh's fingerprints on it. During the search, Nichols allegedly asked the agents not to "mistake household items...
Meanwhile, family members and known associates of Nichols' and McVeigh's are being questioned in the hope that such pressure will persuade the suspects to cooperate. Investigators tell TIME they are convinced that Joshua may provide them with insight into his father. For instance, the boy said in an interview on PrimeTime Live last week that his father "started going to gun shows and making little bombs" and in Kansas, showed him how to make and detonate explosives as well. Nichols' brother James and McVeigh's sister Jennifer are being pressed for new leads, as are McVeigh's Army buddy...
Reports thatbombing suspect Timothy McVeighmade a jailhouse confession taking responsibility for theOklahoma bombingsimply are not credible, says the sheriff of the Perry, Okla. jail. A prisoner in that jail claims McVeigh confided in him. The sheriff notes the prisoner is a twelve-time convicted felon, and has a history of lying.McVeigh lawyer Steven Joneswas quick to discount the story, which was first reported in this morning's New York Times. Making his second appearance in as many days on NBC's Today show, Jones said that such prisoner tales of confessions shouldn't be taken seriously. Jones has been pressing...