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Timothy James McVEIGH

A surveillance camera at the Regency Towers Apartments in Oklahoma City captures
the image of a Ryder truck driven by Timothy McVeigh, just minutes before the truck
blows up in front of the Murrah Federal Building.

Government Exhibit 429B: The T-shirt worn by McVeigh on day of bombing.

Shortly after the bombing, while driving on I-35 in Noble County, near Perry, Oklahoma, McVeigh was stopped by Oklahoma State Trooper Charles J. Hanger from Pawnee, Oklahoma. Hanger had passed McVeigh's yellow 1977 Mercury Marquis and noticed that it had no license plate.

There was that Ryder truck on some bizarre covert Oklahoma Army base in April 1995. Coincidence?

This FEMA memo reports at least two additional bombs were found in the Murrah Building.

Diagram showing failure boundaries of Murrah Building.

Diagram showing Ryder truck location and bomb crater.

Terry Nichols was convicted of being an accomplice to Timothy McVeigh in the Oklahoma City bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in April 1995. Nichols, 40 at the time of the bombing, is now serving life at the federal supermax prison in Florence, Colorado.

Terry Nichols enters the Pittsburg County Courthouse with officers March 4, 2004, in McAlester, Oklahoma.

Terry Nichols is escorted into the McAlester, Oklahoma county jail on the first day of his trial March 22, 2004. Nichols is being charged with 160 counts of murder in the April 15, 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Nichols has already been convicted of federal conspiracy and involuntary manslaughter charges for the deaths of eight law enforcement officers
in the bombing.
(Photo by Larry W. Smith/Getty Images)

Convicted murderer Terry Nichols leaves the Pittsburg County Courthouse on the first day of the sentencing phase of his trial June 1, 2004 in McAlester, Oklahoma. Nichols was found guilty of all 161 counts of first degree murder in the April 19, 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (Photo by Larry W. Smith/Getty Images)

Convicted murderer Terry Nichols is escorted out of the Pittsburg County Courthouse after a state jury deadlocked on a life or death sentence for his state convictions June 11, 2004 in McAlester, Oklahoma. Nichols was found guilty of all 161 counts of first degree murder in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building April 19, 1995 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Nichols faces life in prison or life in prison without parole to be handed out by Judge Taylor.
(Photo by Larry W. Smith/Getty Images)

Convicted murderer Terry Nichols leaves the Pittsburg County Courthouse after being sentenced to life without parole by Judge Taylor August 9, 2004 in McAlester, Oklahoma. Nichols was found guilty of all 161 counts of first degree murder in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building April 19, 1995 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (Photo by Larry W. Smith/Getty Images)

Convicted murderer Terry Nichols leaves the Pittsburg County Courthouse after being sentenced
to life without parole by Judge Taylor August 9, 2004 in McAlester, Oklahoma.
(Photo by Larry W. Smith/Getty Images)

Michael Fortier and Lori Fortier, his wife, were accomplices in the Oklahoma City bombing and key informants in the trials of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols.

Fortier helped McVeigh and Nichols move and sell stolen guns and survey the building in anticipation of the attack. Lori forged a driver's license for McVeigh.

As part of a plea bargain, they testified against McVeigh and Nichols. In return, Michael was sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 on May 27, 1998 for failing to warn authorities about the attack. Lori was granted immunity from prosecution (she died).

Michael Fortier was released from prison on January 20, 2006 into the Witness Protection Program
and given a new identity.

Michael Fortier's wife Lori (centre) accompanied by family to the sentencing.