Left is OK bombing sketch of third suspect (John Doe #2). Right is Padilla.
There are lots of conspiracy theory questions and answers about it of course. My thought is simply that the investigators were looking in the wrong place for John Doe #2 and never came across Padilla in that investigation. Could also be a case of incompetence, but not conspiracy.
Now that we got him though does make me wonder if he was ever questioned on it recently. Probably not though since the OKC case has been "closed" for a while.
But the short-lived (publicly)search for the Third Terrorist was terminated so openly, and the switch to Billy Bob Clinton openly and publicly proclaiming the assumed culpability of “white supremacist citizen militias” so sudden and perplexing. It remains obvious to me that McVeigh had no motivating connection to Clinton’s preferred source of his murderous supposed “anti-government” sentiments. Oh, well. History marches on, replete with conundrums.