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...They are relying on the jury to use their common sense and connect the dots," Cole says. Friday's witnesses were a case in point. A Chinese food restaurant owner told the jury that four days before the bombing, a man named Robert Kling ordered delivery to the Dreamland Motel's room 25 - the same room that a motel clerk had testified earlier that McVeigh was staying in at the time. But on cross-examination, the restaurant owner acknowledged she could not prove that Kling was McVeigh as prosecutors allege; she never saw the man who called in the order...
...Using the vehicle-identification number on the Ryder truck's axle, which survived the blast, the FBI learned from Ryder which location the truck had been rented from. Descriptions of McVeigh by two people at the rental office were the basis of a sketch that agents showed to motel desk clerks in the area. The owner of the Dreamland recognized McVeigh and gave his name. Federal agents ran it through a national-crime database and discovered that McVeigh was in jail in Perry. Just before he was about to be released, the FBI called and had him held...
...McGown, the proprietor of the Dreamland Motel, also in Junction City, is another witness who links McVeigh to a Ryder truck. On April 14, McVeigh showed up at the Dreamland and registered under his own name. It is a mystery why, after previously using aliases, McVeigh would have chosen this moment not to hide his identity. McGown has a theory, though. In a recent interview with author Gerald Posner, she said in her years managing a motel frequented by prostitutes, she learned how to spot men registering under false names. "People are so used to signing their own name...
...beneath that high gloss of professional success lay struggle and intense self-doubt; behind their united front lurked dissatisfactions and secrets that eventually unraveled the whole idyllic package. And on April 11, Dorris, 52, was found dead in a Concord, New Hampshire, motel room. He had swallowed a lethal combination of pills and vodka and had tied a plastic bag over his head--a suicide method reminiscent of that used by the Heaven's Gate cultists weeks before. "To whomever finds me, sorry for the inconvenience," his suicide note read in part. "I was desperate. I love my family...
...many times a day, felt hopeful that Dorris was on the mend. He even talked excitedly about a new children's book he had started to write. Then on Thursday, April 10, he left the facility on a pass. He rented a car and registered at a motel under a false name and address. His body was discovered by police after the facility registered a missing person's report...