OKLAHOMA CITY -- On May 8, 1996, only three days before Sergeant Terrance Yeakey was to receive the Oklahoma Police Department's Medal of Valor, he "committed suicide." (from link in reply#132)
Posted on 01/29/2002 1:36:51 PM PST by honway
In the audio interview in the links below, Tonia Yeakey tells the story of Terrance Yeakey, an American hero. He was the first OKC Police Department officer inside the Murrah Building after the bombing on April 19,1995. Terrance Yeakey went straight into the building and started rescuing survivors. A year later, on May 8,1996, Terry's body was found in a field one and a half miles from his car. His car was filled with blood. Terry was found with his jugular vein cut in two places, both wrists cut, and both arms cut at the elbow and rope burns on his limbs and a bullet in the head.
Tonia states that a member of law enforcement confirmed the body was drug from one place to another. The FBI immediately took over the investigation and ruled it a suicide without an autopsy, eventhough according to the funeral director the cuts were too deep and severe for the use of embalming fluid.
This is a story you need to hear and not from a journalist but in Tonia's own words, because she too is an American hero for courageously sharing her story with you.
Tonia Yeakey Interview Part II
Rescuers live with memories - Many didn't seek help in dealing with stress
Diane Plumberg
04/16/2000
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Terry Yeakey restored many families that day.
The 30-year-old police sergeant crawled over piles of crushed concrete and furniture as electrical wires sparked overhead. He saved Richard Williams, Randy Ledger, Tom Hall and a woman he only knew by her injuries.
Not long after the bombing, a friend, Romona McDonald, said Yeakey wrote her about his problems.
"I think my days as a police officer are numbered," the letter stated. "I think there is a lot of secrets floating around now about my mental state of mind. I believe that a lot of the problems the officers are having right now are because some of them know what really happened and can't deal with it."
In May 1996, Yeakey was found in a grassy field near a grove of trees in El Reno, where Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols had been held in a federal prison. He had slit his wrists and neck and shot himself in the head. Yeakey is buried next to his mother in an El Reno cemetery. He left behind two young daughters, who are now 8 and 6.
Police Sgt. Jerry Flowers said, "You learn to live with it."
Strange that the FBI should investigate a mere robbery/homocide. The District PD caught the homey whom they claimed to have done deed tho'. I wonder what ever came of that case.
Mr. Cooper was a man of limited resources. Interestingly, his attorney, Frank Carter who was providing him advise on the plea, was the same attorney that assisted Monica in preparing the false affidavit in the Jones case.
I hope that whatever you hear now and in the future will not change your opinions about myself or others with the Oklahoma City Police Department, although some of the things I am about to tell you about is [sic] very disturbing.
I don't know if you recall everything that happened that morning or not, so I am not sure if you know what I am referring to.
The man that you and I were talking about in the pictures I have, made the mistake of asking too many questions as to his role in the bombing, and was told to back off.
I was told by several officers he was a ATF agent who was overseeing the bombing plot and at the time the photos were taken he was calling in his report of what had just went down!
I think my days as a police officer are numbered because of the way my supervisors are acting and there is [sic] a lot of secrets floating around now about my mental state of mind. I think they are going to write me up because of my ex-wife and a VPO.
I told you about talking to Chaplain Poe, well the bastard wrote up in a report stating I should be relieved of my duties! I made the mistake of thinking that a person's conversation with a chaplain was private, which by the way might have cost me my job as a police officer! A friend at headquarters told me that Poe sent out letters to everyone in the department! That BITCH (Jo Ann Randall) I told you about is up to something and I think it has something to do with Poe. If she gets her way, they will tar and feather me!
I was told that Jack Poe has written up a report on every single officer that has been in to see him, including Gordon Martin and John Avery.
Knowing what I know now, and understanding fully just what went down that morning, makes me ashamed to wear a badge from Oklahoma City's Police Department. I took an oath to uphold the Law and to enforce the Law to the best of my ability. This is something I cannot honestly do and hold my head up proud any longer if I keep my silence as I am ordered to do.
There are several others out there who was [sic] what we saw and even some who played a role in what happened that day.
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My guess is the more time an officer has to think about the screw up the more he is going to question what happened... Can you imagine what would be coming down now if that had been our officers' who had let this happen? Because it was the feds that did this and not the locals, is the reason it's okay. You were right all along and I am truly sorry I doubted you and your motives about recording history. You should know that it is going to one-hell-of-a-fight.
Everyone was behind you until you started asking questions as I did, as to how so many federal agents arrived at the scene at the same time.
Luke Franey (a BATF agent who claimed he was in the building) was not in the building at the time of the blast, I know this for a fact, I saw him! I also saw full riot gear worn with rifles in hand, why? Don't make the mistake as I did and ask the wrong people.
I worry about you and your young family because of some of the statements that have been made towards me, a police officer! Whatever you do don't confront McPhearson with the bomb squad about what I told you. His actions and defensiveness towards the bombing would make any normal person think he was defending himself as if he drove the damn truck up to the building himself. I am not worried for myself, but for you and your group. I would not be afraid to say at this time that you and your family could be harmed if you get any closer to the truth. At this time I think for your well being it is best for you to distance yourself and others from those of us who have stirred up to many questions about the altering and falsifying of the federal investigation's reports.
I truly believe there are other officers like me out there who would not settle for anything but the truth, it is just a matter of finding them. The only true problem as I see it is, who do we turn to then?
It is vital that people like you, Edye Smith, and others keep asking questions and demanding answers for the actions of our federal government and law enforcement agencies that knew beforehand and participated in the cover-up.
The sad truth of the matter is that they have so many police officers convinced that by covering up the truth about the operation gone wrong, that they are actually doing our citizens a favor. What I want to know is how many other operations have they had that blew up in their faces? Makes you stop and take another look at Waco.
I would consider it to be an insult to my profession as a police officer and to the citizens of Oklahoma for ANY of the City, State or Federal agents that stood by and let this happen to be recognized as any thing other than their part in participation in letting this happen. For those who ran from the scene to change their attire to hide the fact that they were there, should be judged as cowards.
If our history books and records are ever truly corrected about that day it will show this and maybe even some lame excuse as to why it happened, but I truly don't believe it will from what I now know to be the truth.
Even if I tried to explain it to you the way it was explained to me, and the ridiculous reason for having [our] own police departments falsify reports to their fellow officers, to the citizens of the city and to our country, you would understand why I feel the way I do about all of this.
I believe that a lot of the problems the officers are having right now are because some of them know what really happened and can't deal with it, and others like myself made the mistake of trusting the one person we were supposed to be able to turn to (Chaplain Poe) only to be stabbed in the back.
I am sad to say that I believe my days as a police officer are numbered because of all of this....
It's all so incestuous. But lo' there is no conspiracy here, just move along, the war on terror, etc...
"Mr. Cooper confessed to the killings to Prince George s County detectives after he was taken to Maryland, but [FBI Agent Bradley J.] Garrett testified yesterday that Mr. Cooper recanted his confessions when he returned to the District on March 16. Mr. Cooper was brought back to the District after being charged with the Starbucks killings. "He said: I admitted to everything under the sun. I said what they wanted me to say. They didn t advise me of my rights. My statements will be suppressed. I know my rights. Mr. Garrett testified regarding what Mr. Cooper told him."
From reply #118
OKLAHOMA CITY -- On May 8, 1996, only three days before Sergeant Terrance Yeakey was to receive the Oklahoma Police Department's Medal of Valor, he "committed suicide." (from link in reply#132)
Heat Notes Newsletter Archives
HEAT NOTES December 8, 1997
This year we lost Max Hames of the Oklahoma City Police Department. His death was a wake up call that reminds us of just how fragile life can be. We send out our sincerest condolences, once again, to Max’s family and friends in Oklahoma City.
12. The Hames case was referred to Coalson “because of the strikingly similar clinical histories of the two individuals, with somewhat similar pathological findings.” Hames, an Oklahoma City police officer, died on June 8, 1997. The OCME ruled that his cause of death was “acute pulmonary edema with hyaline membrane disease of unknown etiology” and that his manner of death was “unknown.”
Following the change in the autopsy report, we asked if the ARDS diagnosis was unusual. ME spokesman Ray Blakeney told the Oklahoma Constitution that there had been another case, also in 1997. On June 8, 1997, Maxwell Dennis Hames, 41, died under nearly identical circumstances.
The headline for the story in the June 11, 1997 edition of the Daily Oklahoman read, Unkown Illness Kills City Officer. The case was referred to the ME. Hames was a Technical Investigator for the Oklahoma City Police Department who received a Special Recognition Certificate for his work at the Alfred P. Murrah federal building following the bombing. The ME listed the "Cause of Death" as "ACUTE PULMONARY EDEMA WITH HYALINE MEMBRANE DISEASE." The "Manner of Death" was listed as "UNKOWN."
Miller's death is a mystery four years later. The medical examiner's office speculated that it might be a case of the rare Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome. The office could identify only one other possible case -- on June 8, 1997, Maxwell Dennis Hames, 41, died under nearly identical circumstances, the office said.
Hames was a technical investigator for the Oklahoma City Police Department who received -- sit down for this one -- special recognition for his work on the Alfred P. Murrah bombing case.
Miller turned over to the FBI on Aug. 5, 1997, 165 tape-recordings of conversations he had with the Lums and their associates. He was interviewed by the congressional committee staff Aug. 12. On Sept. 2, the committee subpoenaed documents from Miller concerning Brown, the Lums and Dynamic Energy Resources.
Three days later, the committee deposed McLarty. He denied knowing the Lums, and questions about ARKLA and its convicted lobbyist were largely diverted by his attorneys. Seven days later, PBS "Frontline" broadcast interviews with Miller and Anthony. The congressional committee was set to begin formal proceedings Oct. 8.
But on Oct. 3, Miller, 58, was admitted to the hospital with an unknown illness. He died nine days later. The cause is still unknown. Earlier, Miller told a few people he feared for his life. In a police report in January 1997, he identified Don Sweatman as the man who told him: "You hadn't been shot at yet." And who is Sweatman? He was associated with the Lums, often dropped Ron Brown's name and, according to others, sometimes identified himself as "Bill Clinton's personal representative."
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