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...angry crowd--McVeigh later told interviewers he had expected at that moment to be shot--he had just been charged as a suspect in the worst single instance of domestic terrorism in U.S. history: the bombing two days earlier of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The horribly ravaged and hollowed- out structure--a giant wedding cake smashed by a malevolent fist--had become a national monument to loss. The final death toll: 169, including 19 children, most of whom had been dropped off at a day-care center shortly before the blast...
...McVeigh? What kind of person would park a rented truck filled with several thousand pounds of explosives next to a building busy with the early-morning comings and goings of innocent people? Federal investigators and journalists quickly began digging into McVeigh's past, looking for pieces of the appalling Oklahoma City puzzle. Not surprisingly, the fragments did not fit together in a way that would convincingly explain a monstrous deed...
Then began a strange period of drifting that led, prosecutors charge, toward Oklahoma City. In the military, McVeigh had become close friends with Terry L. Nichols, who was later to be charged as an accomplice in the bombing; after leaving the service, McVeigh moved to the Dexter, Michigan, farm owned by Terry's older brother James. Neighbors later reported that explosions had been set off outside the farmhouse. People who met McVeigh during this time noticed that he always carried a weapon. Some witnesses claim that he became involved in the notorious Michigan militias, ad-hoc paramilitary groups preaching armed...
...Billig would not be diverted from her search for Amy. When police interest waned and community donations dried up, she and Ned financed their own hunt by closing their art gallery, selling their Bentley and moving with their son into a smaller house. They tracked bogus leads to Oklahoma and Nevada, visited the Seattle headquarters of a motorcycle gang rumored to have snatched Amy, persuaded Texas officials to exhume an unidentified body and got Unsolved Mysteries to air a TV segment on the case in 1992. After Ned died of lung cancer two years ago, Billig, who also suffered from...
...outbursts. In October an Army sergeant opened fire on colleagues, killing one and injuring 18. In August 1993 a soldier from the post killed four people in a local restaurant. And in 1991 Timothy McVeigh, the chief suspect in last April's bombing of a federal office building in Oklahoma, arrived for a 21-day Green Beret selection course. His failure to qualify for the elite group apparently helped turn him against the government...