Posted on 10/16/2005 11:02:43 AM PDT by MizSterious
The FBI read the message to the father Friday, after he came to Oklahoma to clear out his son's university-owned apartment.
Joel "Joe" Henry Hinrichs III, an engineering student, died when his bomb went off about 100 yards from the packed football stadium during the second quarter of OU's night game against Kansas State.
Hinrichs, 21, was from Colorado Springs, Colo. He had a reputation as a loner and had struggled at times with his grades. His parents had begun divorce proceedings.
Joel Hinrichs Jr. said he understood investigators found the message on the computer screen when they arrived at the apartment.
"It was a single line of text on his computer," said the father, who lives in Colorado Springs. "The cursor was still blinking at the end."
The father said he could not recall the exact wording but said his son used profanity in the message and was obviously very angry. "He wrote he was dissatisfied with the situation and was going to quit living," the father said.
His description of the message is consistent with the recollection of others who have been briefed about the investigation by the FBI.
No links to terrorist groups
FBI officials have said they may never know whether the student wanted to get inside the stadium. The student did not have a season ticket.
FBI officials also have said the investigation has not found any links between the student and terrorist organizations.
His father said he thinks his son was just committing suicide and never intended to hurt anyone else.
The father said the FBI on Friday showed him the fractured bench where his son was sitting when the bomb exploded and photos of his son's headless body and a tattered backpack.
The father said when cleaning out the apartment, he learned his son apparently had been having trouble sleeping and had bought Sominex, a sleep aid.
The younger Hinrichs had a long fascination with ammunition and bombs, his relatives and friends said. Inside his bedroom in Norman were several used metal artillery shells -- the largest about 2 feet long. He had belts of used brass shell casings, a box of spent bullets and military ammo containers.
He also had items more typical of many college students -- textbooks, empty liquor bottles, magazines and a martial arts movie videotape.
The father allowed two reporters from The Oklahoman into the bedroom briefly Thursday.
Bomb experts removed explosive-related materials from the apartment Oct. 2. Contributing: Randy Ellis
Kinda of sweet, fun-loving, all-American kid who lives just down the block. Kinda kid you'd like to hug,...except that he's in so many pieces that's not really an option!
That makes perfect sense, Battle Axe.
Well, what else can we expect, Peach? Some of us now there is much more to this story but we can't do much in the absence of media support. Unfortunately, most Americans don't frequent FR..........
I still find it baffling that the media will spend days and weeks on things like the girl in Aruba, Laci Peterson, etc, and yet almost totally ignore what may have been a botched homocide bombing. I mean, maybe it really was just a suicide, but that was far from clear in the beginning, and yet they ignored it.
susie
I was so disappointed in Kasich. He needs to go back to interviewing 101 and learn how to ask a few probing questions...
susie
Thanks for the link and your good work. It took years of ridicule and abuse before patriots got enough support to force Washington to get serious about what happened at Ruby Ridge and Waco. We learned most of what happened.
Some in the MSM did a good job with facts and McVeigh. For example the Denver Post. Their investigators named people who not only saw McVeigh and others that morning but tried to speak to them but were rebuffed with some hostility.
You can wear beer goggles, but do be sure to match the color (or at least coordinate it) with your tinfoil hat! Otherwise, the fashion police will write you a ticket!
;)
susie
"Unlike FReepers the FBI doesn't run out and proclaim everything that springs into their minds the minute it pops up."
Unlike immediately running out and claiming that this was a "lone suicide," despite Hinrichs having attempted to purchase ammonium nitrate a few days prior, despite his having blown himself up with a backpack filled with TATP outside a stadium filled with 84K or so people, and having a cache of explosive materials in his apartment?
I see what you're saying, lol. Yep, we've all got our tinfoil hat on too tight (sarcasm).
Altho I'm not 100% certain, I THINK the brother was Tom.
susie
It's been two weeks since the bombing, and this is the first time we hear about a suicide note? Give me a break. The FBI got their hands on his computer the day after the bombing. If there had been a suicide note on it, we would have heard about it much sooner, if only to quell all the "rumors". Sorry, but this doesn't wash.
Thanks. And he's clean-shaven, too? Shoot, any of them could get rid of their beards in a few minutes, it's growing a new long one that takes time. OK.
"It's been two weeks since the bombing, and this is the first time we hear about a suicide note? Give me a break."
From the sound of this, it's all about putting soundbites out there, in order to manage the impression that the mostly-inattentive public at large would get, should the story break out.
Thank you William.
You made a good point about Ruby Ridge and Waco. Everyone questioning what went on in those two events were called "conspiracy nuts" too... Eventually, the truth has a way of making itself known.
I still haven't written to media contacts in CO, but perhaps I will dig up the old media list I have and see if any of them are interested in the information I have compiled.
Thanks again,
LR
Thank you. (o:
I just sent an email to the contact listed for the nightly new broadcast that Ms. Kahne is an anchor for. I also cc'd the program director and the faculty advisor. I will report back here or at my blog if I acquire any new information.
I can't say as I buy any of this. This "note" would have been found the night of or the day after the event. WHY NOT REVEAL IT THEN?
This stinks.
To me, this smells like a bunch of folks going over the entire crime scene, cleanining it and purging it from top to bottom of any evidence that might contradict a suicide, then "revealing" a bogus note that they now know cannot be disproven-- because they have eliminated anything that could disprove it.
And how convenient. A typewritten note (so anybody could have typed it). And not emailed or recorded onto a hard drive (so there is no time stamp as to when the note was entered).
Far-- FAAARRRRR to convenient for me.
Why would he be scouting for ammonium nitrate TWO DAYS before the detonation? He obviously had designed and probably had completely built his bomb by then. He would have had the explosives already made or in progress by that time-- what would have been the point of seeking out a different explosive?
The only logical explanation is that he intended to survive the first blast and live to bomb again.
But, then again, logic may be irrelevant here-- who knows.
"what would have been the point of seeking out a different explosive?"
TATP can be (and has been) used to ignite a much larger ANFO bomb, made by combining ammonium nitrate fertilizer with fuel oil. Both have distinct, strong odors that would not have been missed, certainly not by the roomate Cheema, and very likely not by those in surrounding apartments. TATP is described as acrid, a "funny smell," a chemical odor likened to a meth lab. ANFO smells strongly, like diesel fuel.
Thanks for the ping. As always, Freepers are right on target...suicide note mentioned now? Nah, don't think so.
What I do see is what appears to be an organized effort to discredit Free Republic posters.
Our questions have NOT been answered...until then, I'll keep asking and won't buy the party line.
Notice how it's always the same freepers who come in slamming?
FYI All,
Malkin isn't buying it either:
"Pussyfooting Around Islam"http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46786
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