Phone Card Linked to Bombing Suspect
Prosecutors linked Terry L. Nichols to a prepaid phone card he was alleged to have bought to shop for explosives and fuel as ingredients for the bomb that blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people. Government witnesses testifying against Nichols in a federal court in Denver displayed money orders in his handwriting used to buy the phone card. Prosecutors say Nichols and Timothy J. McVeigh, who was convicted of the bombing in June, used the card to phone vendors of fuel oil and blasting supplies before the bombing.
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