[Texas Gal]

Thank you for this post.  I had never heard about Mr. Yeakey, and the story is very interesting.  Very terrible, but it is one of those things we all need to know about.  I did an search for a picture of Mr. Yeakey and it led me to  this website .   Mr. Yeakey's death does not sound like a suicide at all.  Why did the F.B.I. involve itself in the investigation of his death in the first place?  Doesn't a law enforcement agency have to have jurisdiction to investigate a death?

[mancini]

All of the events surrounding Terry Yeakey's death are suspect, especially the FBI's insinuation into it. The man was murdered, plain and simple. He saw something at the bombing site (that the government didn't want him to see), videotaped it, and paid for it with his life. No tin-foil-hat aspects to this story.

[honway]

Why did the F.B.I. involve itself in the investigation of his death in the first place? Doesn't a law enforcement agency have to have jurisdiction to investigate a death?

It is my understanding that Yeakey's body was found on federal property near El Reno, this was the justification for over two dozen federal agents at the scene of a suicide.

[honway]

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." The 30 year-old cop was found in a field near El Reno, not far from where prison guard Joey Gladden "committed suicide

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According to this piece by David Hoffman, it appears this federal land was selected by two suspicious suicides in less than a year. Gladden was a guard in the prison where McVeigh and Nichols were incarcerated.