Last 3 Bomb Victims Are Identified

The last three bodies pulled from the rubble of the bombed-out Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building have been positively identified, a state medical examiner’s spokesman said Wednesday.

The bodies of two missing women, Christy Rosas, 22, and Virginia Thompson, 56, were identified late Tuesday by dental and X-ray records, spokesman Ray Blakeney said. Their bodies have been released to their families.

Blakeney said the other body was identified by X-rays as that of Alvin Justes, 54. His body has yet to be released, pending a final identification by fingerprints, he said.

The last three victims were recovered Monday. They were among 168 people killed in the April 19 truck-bombing of the federal building.

Rescue crews were unable to retrieve the bodies during the initial 15-day recovery effort because they were in a debris pile holding up a support column of the unstable building. The building was demolished last week.

Rosas and Thompson were employees of the federal employees credit union on the third floor of the nine-story building. Their bodies were found side by side, Blakeney said. The body of Justes, a credit union customer, was found about 20 feet away.