“We know the official story,” Posobiec began. “It’s Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols kind of gets involved, but then pulls out… Where was it for you that some crack started to appear in that official narrative?”
Roberts responded that doubts began forming almost immediately after the April 19, 1995, attack. “Well, at the very beginning, it was the first year of the investigation,” she said. “Again, long before I became actively involved in the case, I was a news junkie and a witness, a citizen witness, like millions of Americans so shocked about what I saw that day. The agony, the devastation, the injury on April 19, 1995.”
“I had been the news director of America’s Most Wanted, and I had worked hand in glove with the FBI. I got as close to the high-profile manhunt stories as any journalist could,” she said. “So I looked at the scene and the early coverage of the bombing and almost immediately red flags went up.”
She continued, “On the one hand, I was wishing for a minute that I was back in America’s Most Wanted and I could push the story. But on the other hand, I was seeing cracks in this narrative almost immediately.”
Roberts pointed to eyewitness accounts as one of the first major problems. “The 24 eyewitnesses to the bombing in Oklahoma City that day… are absolutely critical because they saw not just Timothy McVeigh, but they saw the man never identified who rode next to him in the bomb truck,” she explained.
“That was a big red flag for a story that was heading for this was lone wolf terror by Timothy McVeigh,” she said. “He built the bomb, and he delivered it by himself. That’s what prosecutors would tell the jury. And that’s what would bury Timothy McVeigh.”
Roberts added that reports pointed to unreleased surveillance footage. “Top journalists were reporting that the FBI had collected surveillance videotape of that moment, the delivery of the bomb truck,” she said. “They had McVeigh and his never identified accomplice on videotape, which the American public has never been allowed to see.”
“A grand juror on the McVeigh grand jury was so distressed by what he saw inside that jury that he went rogue,” Roberts told Posobiec. “He started leaking to the Daily Oklahoman and eventually wrote a letter to the judge accusing federal prosecutors of rigging that grand jury—specifically because they were hiding the identity of John Doe No. 2.”
“And if I could add one more, which is just kind of an incredible X-Files moment,” Roberts concluded, “recovery workers brought a severed human leg out of the rubble of the Murrah building that was never connected to any of the bombing victims… Experts would later tell Timothy McVeigh’s defense team that in all likelihood—or very possibly—this leg belonged to one of the bombers, again, completely defying the idea of lone wolf terror.”
