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...about whether a larger conspiracy led to the April 1995 bombing that took 168 lives. One of the documents, for instance, summarizes a call received by the FBI from Morris John Kuper Jr., who told investigators to check out activities in a parking lot a block away from the Murrah Federal Building about an hour before it was blown apart. Kuper later testified that he had seen a man resembling McVeigh walking with a dark-haired, muscular companion--a description that matches those by other witnesses of a man who came to be known as John Doe 2. Investigators eventually...
...soul, he never acknowledged it, and on this morning, six years after the terrible bombing at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, the victims of his crime may have finally felt that fate had reckoned with their loss...
...Vlad the Impaler. Is there something preposterous about executing a mass murderer in such comfort? What if he'd been wheeled in a tumbrel through the streets of Oklahoma City, to be execrated and spat upon on the way to a guillotine on the spot where the Alfred P. Murrah Building once stood...
...claimed that Carol Howe, a onetime informant for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, was prepared to testify that she had heard militia leaders discuss blowing up buildings in Tulsa and Oklahoma City and that she knew several men who traveled frequently to Oklahoma City to inspect the Murrah Federal Building. The government claimed that despite spending eight months as a paid informant, Howe had gathered no evidence of a conspiracy in the works, coming forward with her tale only after the bombing had occurred. Judge Matsch refused to let Howe take the stand, ruling that her testimony...
...former Justice and FBI officials, the documents are mostly "negative reports"--leads that didn't pan out. Many were tips from people saying that they recognized the so-called John Doe No. 2, whose composite sketch, based on a grainy photograph taken from a bank camera near the Murrah Federal Building, had been released by the FBI. Before the trial, several witnesses told prosecutors they saw a possible accomplice, described as being in his late 20s with a medium build and straight black hair, with McVeigh in the days before the bombing. If the new documents point to the existence...