Crime History: Nichols found guilty of killing 161 people in Oklahoma City bombing
By: Freeman Klopott
Examiner Staff Writer
May 26, 2009
On this day, May 26, in 2004, an Oklahoma jury found Army veteran Terry Nichols guilty of killing 161 people in the Oklahoma City bombing.
He previously had been convicted on federal charges for the bombing in 1997 and was already serving a life sentence when he was convicted by the state jury.
In 1995, Nichols and Timothy McVeigh used hundreds of pounds of fertilizer to create a bomb that ripped the federal office building in Oklahoma City to pieces. The two had met while assigned to the Army’s 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley, Kan. They were later linked to the Michigan Militia, a paramilitary group that denies either man was involved with the organization.
During the bombing, Nichols was at home in Kansas spreading fertilizer on his lawn.
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