Oklahoma: May 2023 Archives

CNN: Why did this cop turn up dead?

A surprising, shocking, largely unknown story from the Murrah Building bombing, by CNN senior writer Thomas Lake, published March 3, 2023. Related Twitter thread by Mises Caucus here (unrolled here).

"Terry Yeakey... was an Oklahoma City police officer and a military veteran. Yeakey saved at least three people from the ruins of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995, the day a terrorist attack killed 168 people and injured hundreds of others.

"Something happened to Yeakey in those hours in the wreckage. He was badly shaken, and his worldview seemed to change. In time, he grew suspicious and afraid. He ran afoul of his supervisors. He went on secret missions, withholding his motives and plans from fellow officers. He seemed to be conducting his own investigation.

"And then, 385 days after the bombing, his body was found near some trees in a field off a country road. His wrists were cut. His neck was cut. He'd been shot through the head.

"The authorities said it was suicide. But among those who knew Terry Yeakey, not many believed he had killed himself."