The Questionable Confession of Timothy McVeigh

More questions than answers

While cruising through a search on www.odysee.com I came across an interview with Timothy McVeigh for 60 minutes. After reading Oklahoma City by Roger Charles and Aberration in the Heartland of the Real by Dr. Painting I knew that the confession was different from what really happened but I didn’t realize how much.

McVeigh went into detail about the minutes leading up to the explosion. He pulled off the highway and came to a red light where he lit the fuse that had a two minute length on it. “…longest seconds of my life” McVeigh said as he told the story. He went on to say he pulled up to the front of the building and stepped out of the truck, locking the doors behind him. For all the detail he put into the confession there were several problems with it. For one, the amount of time he would of had after lighting the fuse, parking the truck, locking the doors, and casually walking away to a safe spot before the bomb exploded would be longer than two minutes. Then there is the timeline for the truck that we know from witness testimony.

Twenty-two different witness tell another tale of where the truck went before the bomb went off, and who was in the truck. McVeigh had tried to go into the parking garage in the basement of the Murrah building first but the truck was too tall to fit. Afterwards, he went to the alley behind the Federal Courthouse. There is speculation that this was the original target and that it was changed at the last minute, according to testimony by Terry Nichols. When McVeigh pulled the truck into the alley a van transporting a prisoner by US Marshals was there. McVeigh turned around and went to the front of the Murrah building where a UPS truck had just pulled away leaving a spot for the Ryder truck.

The same people that gave us all of this information on where the Ryder truck was before the explosion also said that there was a passenger in the truck with McVeigh, John Doe #2. McVeigh’s confession was never questioned because the 22 witnesses to the Ryder truck, and McVeigh, were never called to testify. For a murder conviction the prosecution had to sell the story that McVeigh worked alone. There are many theories as to why McVeigh would have confessed to a crime the way the prosecution wanted him to tell it, and that is the story that he told. While McVeigh told a confession it wasn’t the truth of what happened that day and it wasn’t even a good story to cover all the details that were missed. Aside from a confession the prosecution had no evidence in court to prove McVeigh was in the truck. None of the surveillance footage of the truck or explosion were shown to the jury. No one that had seen the truck prior to the explosion testified to what they had seen. While McVeigh had confessed to bombing the Murrah building any testimony from witnesses would have contradicted the confession and caused doubt to McVeigh working alone.

I don’t know who fed this story to McVeigh or why it was so poorly put together but there are a few events that happened around that time that could give some answers to these questions.

McVeigh’s original legal counsel had recused themselves from the case after McVeigh told them about his involvement in a little known government program we would later know as PATCON. In a letter McVeigh wrote to his sister years prior, following his drop out from Special Forces, he explained some of the activities his new assignment could involve, including running drug for the CIA. McVeigh told his lawyers that he was an undercover agent assigned to infiltrate white supremacists organizations and anti-government militias. As he told his story it was convincing enough for his lawyers to recuse themselves from the case and have new legal counsel assigned to McVeigh’s defense. Several weeks went by before Stephen Jones as given the case and started his work for McVeigh’s defense. By the time Jones met with McVeigh the story had changed. Two things happened during those weeks McVeigh was left without legal counsel. Jennifer McVeigh (Tim’s sister) was being investigated by the FBI for laundering money Tim had stolen during a bank robbery he participated in. The second event was the introduction of psychiatric care by federally appointed clinicians such as Dr. John Smith, a student of the MK Ultra Psychiatrist Louis Jolyon West.

Jennifer McVeigh was never charged with laundering the money and instead testified in court about what she knew pertaining to the bombing before it took place. The meetings with Dr. John Smith also continued until McVeigh’s execution in 2001. While it could be debated as to what would have convinced McVeigh to change his defense there is the likelihood that it was several factors and not just one.

The testimony of eyewitnesses to the Ryder truck could have created doubt in the jury that McVeigh had worked alone. It there was any doubt in McVeigh’s guilt it risked him not being given the death penalty. It is not beyond the government to burn an operative and if killing McVeigh covered the ass of the state, that, in their eyes, would be the greater good, for them. Had the truth come out about what really happened before the bombing at the Murrah building this would have been a bigger scandal than Fast and Furious, Waco, or Ruby Ridge.

Whether McVeigh was blackmailed, courced, to please his ego, or playing the role of the good soldier one thing is for certain, the confession he gave to the public and the court was a complete lie.

Sources:

https://libertarianinstitute.org/documents/1995_08_03-WaPo-McVeighs_Sister_Cleared_to_Testify_as_Government_Witness.pdf

https://libertarianinstitute.org/documents/1998_07_01-New_York_Times-Excerpts_from_Timothy_Mcveigh_Letter_to_Sister_recruited.pdf

Aberration in the Heartland of the Real by: Dr. Wendy Painting (book)

Oklahoma City By: Roger Charles (book)