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Article: BOMB TRACES LINKED TO MCVEIGH FBI CHEMIST SAYS HE FOUND RESIDUE OF EXPLOSIVE ON SUSPECT'S CLOTHING.(Local)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- May 20, 1997
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Byline: Kevin Flynn and Karen Abbott Rocky Mountain News Staff Writers
Traces of explosives were found on Timothy McVeigh's clothing and earplugs when he was arrested 75 minutes after the Oklahoma City bombing, an FBI chemist testified Monday.
Steven Burmeister, a supervisory special agent at the FBI crime laboratory in Washington, D.C., said he found traces of the high-explosive PETN, contained in detonating cord, in McVeigh's pants pocket, on two shirts he was wearing and on a set of earplugs.
It was the first testimony physically linking McVeigh to explosives on the day of the bombing.
Burmeister also said that a six-by-eight-inch ...