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...mind-boggling scope of the case is allowing Jones to fashion theories of whatever kind. Federal investigators have already turned over to the defense more than 21,000 witness statements, more than 400 hours of videotapes from various surveillance cameras and even satellite photographs of 20 sites in Oklahoma and Kansas that were taken by intelligence agencies. "It's the largest criminal investigation in the history of the U.S.," Jones points out. "Larger than Kennedy's death, larger than Oswald by any standard...
Witnesses identify McVeigh as the man who rented a Ryder van under a false name on April 17. During the days leading up to the blast, they place him and his truck at the Dreamland Motel in Junction City, Kansas, about 200 miles from Oklahoma City, where he was registered under his own name. Other witnesses say that in the moments before the explosion they saw McVeigh, a Ryder truck and the beige Mercury in which McVeigh was later arrested all in front of the Alfred P. Murrah building...
...prosecution case will depend mostly upon physical evidence. McVeigh's fingerprints were found on a receipt for 40 one-fifth-pound bags of ammonium nitrate fertilizer--the chief ingredient in the Oklahoma bomb--that the FBI discovered at Nichols' home in Kansas, where they also found detonator cords with blasting caps. After McVeigh's arrest, traces of explosives were detected on his clothing and in his car. Prosecutors will argue that McVeigh and Nichols stashed the fertilizer in rented storage facilities, then mixed and assembled their bomb in a park near Nichols' farm. To clinch its case, the prosecution does...
...McVeigh had accomplices. Just who was John Doe 2, the dark-haired man who may have been with McVeigh when he rented the Ryder van? And among the many sightings of McVeigh, some are of no help to the prosecution. Mike Moroz, an employee at a service station in Oklahoma City, says that moments before the explosion McVeigh and another man pulled up to ask directions, which would be odd if the pair had studied the building frequently in advance, as the prosecutors allege. Jones claims that on April 19 there were as many as three Ryder trucks in Oklahoma...
...then, were their associates? One key to the answer, Jones thinks, is a white supremacist named Richard Wayne Snell. On the evening of the Oklahoma bombing, Snell was executed in Arkansas for the 1983 killing of a pawnbroker he mistakenly believed to be Jewish. In the early 1980s Snell and some associates conspired to blow up the Murrah building. His last words before his death were, "Look over your shoulder; justice is coming." Aha! says Jones. "Why would Snell think that unless he knew? One hypothesis is that a group of people decided to give the old man a going...