The cop who knew too much…
There have always been a lot of unanswered questions about the Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people. This is the true tale of an Oklahoma City police sergeant who became aware of something suspicious about the blast before anyone else, apparently during the first hour of rescue. He paid for that discovery with his life.
After numerous private investigators have produced evidence of multiple explosions, unexploded bombs being hauled away after the fact, and the complete incapability of an Ammonium Nitrate Fuel Oil (ANFO) bomb to cause the cause the kind of devastation seen in downtown Oklahoma City, a giant government cover-up has become obvious. Nobody knows why.
Only a couple of hours into the rescue, Sgt. Terrence Yeakey became painfully aware of something disturbing. Did he somehow figure out that the building had been blown up from the inside and that the news reports were baloney? Did he overhear a strange conversation from some of the many ATF agents who were on the scene sooner than they should have been? Whatever it was, Terry was upset. He called his wife that morning crying and said, “It’s not true. It’s not what they are saying. It didn’t happen that way.” Terry Yeakey may have been the first to discover that the official story of what happened that morning became a fabrication.
He ran back and forth into that concrete mess of bricks and mortar all day long and continued beyond exhaustion, far into the night. He scraped and crawled and dug until his fingers bled and then kept digging some more. In a cadre of heroes that day, Terry’s performance was heroic. On May 11th he was scheduled to receive the Medal of Valor from the Oklahoma City Police Department. He never got it. Instead he was murdered on May 8th 1996.
The official report listed the cause of death as “suicide”.  According to the report, Terry drove to an isolated area where he slashed himself eleven times on both forearms before cutting his own throat twice near the jugular vein. Then, apparently seeking even a more private place to die, he crawled another mile of rough terrain away from his car and climbed a fence, before shooting himself in the head from above with a small caliber revolver. What appeared to be rope burns on his neck, handcuff bruises to his wrists, and muddy grass imbedded in his slash wounds strongly indicated that he had some help in traversing this final distance.
The bullet’s entrance wound was in the right temple, above the eye. It went through the policeman’s head and exited in the area of the left cheek, near the bottom of the ear lobe line. The trajectory was from a 40-45 degree angle above his head. There were no powder burns. No weapon was ever reported as found at the scene, but independent investigators speculated that had Yeakey shot himself with standard police issue – a Glock 9mm or a .357 Magnum – his head would have been far more destroyed than it apparently was. The would looked more like a .22 caliber.
One of the last people Officer Yeakey talked to was a friend who knew he was on a mission of private investigation. Terry had told him that he was on his way to El Reno to check out something but first he had to shake the FBI agents who were following him. He was traveling in his private automobile, and witnesses said later that the inside looked like someone had “butchered a hog” on the front seat.
Although the Yeakey incident occurred some thirty miles away in a different jurisdiction, the investigation was quickly taken out of the hands of the El Reno police and the Canadian County sheriff and turned over to the Oklahoma City Police Department and the FBI. No homicide investigation was ever conducted, and there was no autopsy.
In an interview with Terry’s widow, Tonia Yeakey revealed that her husband had been very upset by something he had seen under the day care center on April 19th. He had wanted to go back and photograph it, but the officials would not let him onto the site again.
Mrs. Yeakey also said that Terry was supposed to be decorated for his work as a rescue person, but didn’t want to be put in the limelight. Terry felt the investigation was fraudulent and didn’t like the fact that the OKPD was honoring people who really weren’t deserving of the honor.
Sgt. Yeakey had told friends that he was going out of town to hide or secure “evidence of a cover-up of the bombing by federal agents.” It was his day off, and he was traveling in his private automobile. In his last known conversation, Terry reportedly told a friend that he “was being followed by the feds and had to shake them.”
From a letter Terrence Yeakey wrote to a bombing victim and friend:
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!
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.
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?
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.
A month later he was dead.
Officer Terrance Yeakey’s death was a tragedy, but if OCPD officials were  concerned over their fellow officer’s death, they didn’t show it. No one from the Department ever called the family after his death to offer their condolences. Although forensics are also standard procedure in the event of a violent or suspicious death, especially that of a police officer, Yeakey’s car was never dusted for prints or searched. No autopsy was ever conducted. Most telling, no gun was found.
Yeakey had a briefcase full of documents and a camcorder with him at the time of his death. OKC Police admitted they had these items to the family, but they have never been returned to them, in spite of numerous requests for many years.
The Oklahoma City Police Department exercised illegal jurisdiction over an incident located in a completely different county, then immediately ruled it a suicide in spite of the lack of a gun! Their investigation was then sealed, and it remains sealed to this day. Not even the family is allowed to see the case files or evidence. Only one thing is clear:
Whatever Officer Yeakey knew, it was apparently worth killing him over.           ô¿ô BADSAM