Joel Henry Hinrichs III in a 2002 photo.
Posted on 10/01/2005 7:05:29 PM PDT by blogblogginaway
Edited on 10/01/2005 7:21:56 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
The explosion happened at the courtyard near the George Lynn Cross Hall, Botany-Microbiology Building on OU's campus, which is west of the stadium, according to Sgt. Gary Robinson of the University police department. The explosion happened during the second quarter of Oklahoma's game against Kansas State. After the explosion, police set up a perimeter of several blocks and made fans exit the stadium to the east.
NORMAN -- An explosion near the University of Oklahoma's Gaylord Family-Memorial Stadium killed one person Saturday, OU officials said.
IF this was a HOMICIDE BOMB that exploded prematurely, then for maximum collateral damage there should be projectiles to form the basis for killing shrapnel. This guy was an engineering student, so he would have known about that. No shrapnel damage or marks on anything: trees, sidewalk, buildings, some of it should have traveled quite a ways to shatter a window further away...
I'm hearing that the guy tried to enter the stadium several times and was turned back for having a backpack.
So he went back across the street and sat down on the bench and was strapping the bomb onto his body so he could enter the stadium without a backpack and it exploded prematurely.
Say what?
PKM was in the stadium Sat. night.
The shock wave that shook her house was Sunday when the police detonated the explosives they collected from the apartment. At least that is my understanding.
I was in the stadium Saturday night and heard the blast -- it was loud. Sunday night around 9:30, I heard a blast that shook my front window -- that was from Norman police blowing up the cache of bomb making supplies they took from the apartment. My understanding is that it was felt pretty much all over town. I am five miles from that site and it rattled my window.
BTW, I was told some windows had to be replaced in Cross.
They showed pictures on Channel 5 last night with him and his beard with other people while interviewing his father. It was no photoshop.
You have it right.
So glad you had this to share...sheds new, scary light on the whole incident.
Joel Henry Hinrichs III in a 2002 photo.
The 7/7 london devices did not contain shrapnel.
The ME roommate was mentioned in a post on timebomb -- written by another Norman resident, who got her information from a friend inside the Norman PD.
There's so little information coming from authorities that we're forced to put this story together ourselves.
Granted there is probably a good reason not to disclose much due to the investigation, but the lid is really clamped down hard on this one, and I think the public should be allowed to know a bit more.
post 222 at this link
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=170283&page=6&pp=40
Yes the old permanent record. I am pretty sure St. Peter at the gates has a copy.
PKMom, what has been the administration's reply as to why they padlocked the stadium?
I have a question. If this was a simple suicide why didn't Hinrichs just shoot himself? According to newspaper accounts and statements by people who knew him Hinrichs was familiar with guns. Going to the trouble of building a bomb seems like a gross violation of the KISS principle. Not only that what guarantees did Hinrichs have that the bomb would go off, that it would go off when it was suppose to, and that there would not be anyone nearby to be hurt.
I feel for this man's family but some of their statements are leading to more questions instead of answers.
Also the additional bomb making material found is very suspect.
Don't even think about it -- so much has happened and stories being rewritten it makes your head swim.
From what I hear, the roommate (hadn't heard he was Paki, and I'm typing this from an OU computer lab)has already moved back into the apartment.
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