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By Tim Talley
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
McALESTER, Okla. — For Jannie Coverdale, the search for sus-
cts in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed her two grand-
ns and 166 other people did not end with the arrests of Timothy
cVeigh and Terry Nichols.
Nine years after the deadly bombing, Coverdale is among a res
olute group of survivors and members of victims’ families that is
ill searching for the enigmatic suspect John Doe No. 2 and evi-
lence of a wider bombing conspiracy.
Coverdale and others believe the state murder trial of bombing
aspirator Terry Nichols may be their last chance to
ove what prosecutors argue is a leap of faith: that
inknown others were involved in the plot to bomb the
klahoma City federal building.
“I want to get to the bottom of it,” Coverdale said.
1 will never stop asking questions until I get some
Jnswers, or until I’m dead.”
Earlier this month, Coverdale sent a letter to
B1 Director Robert Mueller asking that the inves-
Igation into the April 19, 1995, bombing be
hopened, citing the bureau’s failure to share evi-
jence of possible bombing coconspirators with top
ombing investigators. She said she has not
ceived a reply.
Who’s going to investigate the investigators?”
e said.
Nichols’ defense attorneys have built a case around
locuinents and witness accounts they say show other
joconspirators helped McVeigh in the plot to bomb
he Oklahoma City federal building and that Nichols was set up to
ke the blame.
“The evidence that the defense seeks to offer ... provides a viable
jxplanation why these persons are more likely than Mr. Nichols, a
nan without any history of violence, to have aided McVeigh in his
flot,” according to a 90-page defense motion that seeks dismissal of
he case.
Judge Steven Taylor is scheduled to take testimony on the motion
Mien Nichols’ trial resumes Monday, the ninth anniversary of the
ombing.
Nichols, 49, was convicted on federal counts of conspiracy
Jind involuntary manslaughter in Denver in 1997. He was sen
tenced to life in prison for the deaths of eight federal law
I want to get
to the bottom of
it. I will never stop
asking questions
until I get some
answers, or until I
am dead.
— Janie Coverdale
grandsons were killed in
the bombing
Nichols’ defense attorneys allege that dozens of witnesses saw a
man resembling John Doe No. 2 in Kansas and Oklahoma in the
week before the bombing.
In their motion, Nichols’ defense attorneys said they have ques
tioned potential witnesses who can identify other possible suspects,
including members of a gang of white supremacists known as the
Midwest bank robbers.
They allege federal investigators have impeded their efforts to
obtain information about the bank robbery gang and McVeigh’s
connection with Elohim City, a white supremacist enclave in north
eastern Oklahoma.
State prosecutors have repeatedly said defense attorneys have been
given all the information provided to them by federal authorities.
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enforcement officers in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah
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In Oklahoma, Nichols faces I6l state counts of first-degree mur
der for the deaths of the other 160 victims and one victim’s fetus.
Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.
V.Z. Lawton, a retired U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development employee who was knocked unconscious in the
bombing, said Nichols’ state jury will probably hear more evidence
of a wider conspiracy than jurors did at his federal trial.
“There’s more of it coming out down here than ever came out in
Denver,” Lawton said.
Lawton and Coverdale are among those who see evidence of a
Mideast connection.
The day after the bombing, the FBI released
sketches of two men drawn from descriptions provid
ed by employees at a Junction City, Kan., body shop.
Authorities said the truck used to deliver the
Oklahoma City bomb was rented at the shop.
One sketch, known as John Doe No. 1, resembled
McVeigh. The other, John Doe No. 2, depicted a
dark-haired, muscular man with features that do not
resemble Nichols.
Investigators identified the suspect as an Army pri
vate who was at the body shop about the same time
and had nothing to do with the bomb plot. But
Coverdale and others believe the sketch resembles a
man of Middle Eastern descent.
Lawton and 13 other survivors and victims’ rela
tives filed a federal lawsuit in 2002 against Iraq,
claiming Iraqi officials provided money and training
to McVeigh and Nichols. The lawsuit is pending.
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