The “Yeakey Rule” -- Had Enough with the FBI’s Calling a Murder a Suicide?

by Mary W Maxwell, LLB

Today (August 22, 2025), a friend of mine told me that the 1997 Oklahoma City Bombing is getting new coverage. I do not intend to research the new material. However, back in 2011, my book Prosecution for Treason had a short piece on FBI lies which I am now posting here, as follows:

The OKC bombing took place on April 19, 1997, under the Clinton Administration. A federal building was blown up, killing 168 people. Two years later Timothy McVeigh was convicted, and in 2001 he was executed. It is not at all clear who did the bombing, but the shenanigans of the FBI – particularly in destroying evidence, and of the prosecutor – particularly in refusing to call dozens of eager witnesses, lead one to believe that the case against McVeigh was nonsense.

As demonstration of that, consider four hushed-up deaths that occurred subsequent to the April 19th event:

1. Oklahoma City police Officer Terrance Yeakey found evidence of explosives planted in the structure of the building (incompatible with the idea that McVeigh’s truck parked outside did the job alone). Yeakey ran into the absolutely standard response when he tried to get the material looked at. He must have been hard to bribe, intimidate, or discredit, however, judging from the fact that ‘they’ finally had to terminate him. His body was found in the woods and the death was ruled a suicide. Explanation? He was feeling bad about his recent divorce – something his ex-wife says is not true.

2. As for Glenn Wilburn, his two grandsons died in the Day Care Center of the Murrah Building. Soon after the bombing his daughter went on TV with the complaint that all staff from the office of the BATF were out of the building, and asked for an explanation of why they had that ‘option’ when her children did not. Mr. Wilburn soon became a spokesperson for the many people dissatisfied with the investigation of the bombing. A year later, at age 46, he developed pancreatic cancer and died.

3. Dr Don Chumley worked at a clinic near the bombing scene and showed up right away. According to a local journalist, as re- ported by David Hoffman in The Oklahoma City Bombing (1998), “Chumley was asked to bandage two federal agents who falsely claimed to have been trapped in the [Murrah that morning]. Since the pair was obviously not hurt, Chumley refused. When the agents petitioned another doctor at the scene, Chumley intervened, threatening to report them” (p. 297). Five months later, he was killed when his small plane, a Cessna 210, crashed into a field.

4. The most amazing death connected to OKC is that of 44-year- old Kenneth Trentadue who was arrested in June 10, 1995, in San Diego for a minor parole violation. That led to his arriving at the Oklahoma City Federal Transfer Facility on Aug 18, the week after McVeigh, Nichols, and ‘others unknown’ were indicted for the April tragedy. While there, Kenneth Trentadue, a happily married man with a new baby, was beaten to death in prison.

Unluckily, Kenneth resembled a man the FBI was looking for named Richard Lee Guthrie, with reference to the Murrah Building bombs. Kenneth Trentadue even had the same dragon tattoo as Guthrie on his left forearm! (Note: the real Guthrie died the following year by being beaten in prison. Both deaths were called ‘suicides.’ A third prisoner, who wrote a deposition for the court about Kenneth’s last hours, was also later found hanged in a federal prison, in California.)

Thus we have Officer Yeakey’s suicide by gunshot, Dr Chumley’s plane crash, Kenneth Trentadue’s death by beating in prison, and Glenn Wilburn’s cancer. These types of fatalities seem to happen whenever local people refuse to accept the government’s version of events. (Single car crashes often figure in terminations, too, as do heart attacks.) Granted we cannot be sure that Wilburn’s cancer was a covert job. It may have been the digitum dei. But for decades scientists have killed rats while testing the carcinogenicity of drugs and, logically, it is possible to kill a human by cancer, via those drugs.

Let’s make a rule of thumb, and call it the Yeakey rule, to wit: “When the authorities quickly determine a death to be suicide, in the face of plain evidence to the contrary, guilt on the part of the authorities will be tentatively presumed.” Laws sometimes establish ‘rebuttable presumptions’ like that, in order to switch the onus of proof from the plaintiff to the defendant. Even if the ‘Yeakey rule’ does not get adopted by courts, it can be used by laypersons. Common sense tells us when officials are trying to hide something.

Note: In their book Tainting Evidence (1998), John F. Kelly and Phillip K. Wearne criticize the FBI Crime Lab. They quote William Thompson, a professor of criminalistics at the University of California, Irvine. He says: “The culture of such places, run by police or agents, for police or agents, is often just inimical to good scientific practice. The reward system, promotion, incentives... in the end your pay check is based on successful prosecutions, not good science.”

A False Flag Motive, re Iraq?

Luckily, in the OKC case, there are many tenacious citizens who are determined to keep up the pressure. One is an OKC journalist, Jayna Davis (2004), who reported in detail the fact that Iraqi immigrants in Oklahoma were very involved in the planning of the truck bomb. She also found that a German neo-Nazi, Andreas Strassmeier, was involved with the White Supremacists and was working with the CIA’s permission.

Davis collected witness statements from people who saw the Iraqis, but of course someone may have recruited the Iraqis in order that, once the building was bombed, Iraq could be blamed. Quite possibly the destruction of the Murrah was scheduled to be a false flag event – an earlier version of 9/11, that would justify a US military action in the Middle East.

If that be so, what were the White Supremacists, including Timothy McVeigh, doing in the picture? Implicating McVeigh may have been ‘Plan B’ if a last-minute decision was made to abandon blaming the Middle East. All of Jayna Davis’ efforts to present her investigation of those Iraqi men were rejected by the government.

Instead, the government chose to say that McVeigh was a disillusioned soldier, a militia type, or whatever could cause people to think that their own countrymen are nuts and are dangerous.

RULE OF LAW

The marvelous thing about being an American is that we can count on rule of law for protection. The natural state for the human species is to have rule-by-bosses. Not until recent centuries did it become possible for persons on the lower rungs of the ladder to overturn that normal state of affairs. The US Founding Fathers, specifically the Framers of the Constitution, came up with a very comprehensive scheme so that we could be ruled by the law itself. This is intrinsically better than being ruled by law-free bosses.

Now let us apply rule-of-law sensibilities to the OKC bombing case. Although Timothy McVeigh has already gone to his grave (and accomplice Terry Nichols is in prison for life), the person responsible for the 168 deaths needs to be tracked down. First let’s note that allegations of involvement by ‘White Supremacists’ is a veritable give-away that a federal agency is behind the whole thing.

The following is from an article by Patrick Briley, “FBI, SPLC, ATF behind OKC Bombing” (www.newswithviews.com), dated March 27, 2007.

“McVeigh hung around a religious group in Elohim City, OK. Also at that sight were Andreas Strassmeier, allegedly a neo-Nazi, but in fact an agent for Germany’s covert agency [and] Sean Kenny, at the time a private in the US Army.... FBI and DoJ officers used up to 19 provocateurs... to encourage and help McVeigh finance, build, and strategically locate his truck bomb.... An FBI 302 report obtained by Jesse Trentadue shows that McVeigh attended a meeting with FBI informants and provocateurs at Elohim City in 1994. [So there!]

“Kenny was involved in Midwest bank robberies with McVeigh.... Strassmeier gave him advice on explosives....Holloway was a CIA pilot that...helped Strassmeier escape the INS to Germany after the OKC bombing.... FBI teletypes show that [FBI Director Louis] Freeh knowingly allowed David Holloway to help Strassmeier escape. A formal DoJ report later confessed the FBI crime lab officers gave misleading if not false testimony in the courts... about forensic analysis of the truck bomb.” [Emphasis added]

In the above, Patrick Briley (a US veteran and interested citizen) has thus catalogued six items that are often used by covert agencies:

1. 1. collusion with foreign covert agencies;

2. 2. mingling with (perhaps actually creating?) groups of eccentrics whose possible fanaticism suggests to the public a mental disturbance or a desire to overthrow our traditional institutions;

3. 3. training in terrorism by the infiltrating member of federal agency;

4. 4. misleading testimony from an FBI crime lab person (confessed);

5. 5. apparent mixing of US covert agencies and US military; and

6. 6. FBI positively assisting wrongdoer to escape law enforcers.

Should we add another: “possible use of ordinary theft to obtain ‘funding’ for the project”? Briley says McVeigh participated in many bank robberies as part of the ARA. Could this mean that those robberies, and maybe other ‘unsolved’ bank robberies, were carried out by government? Wow, what a clever scheme that would be!

Whoa there! How could it be allowed? Have we all become certifiable mental cases? Of course not. This is America! We have law. This is no tin-pot dictatorship, this is the Great Republic. They cannot get away with it! Listen to this nonsense about a coroner:

Despite the fact that the alternative media states its revelations in that matter-of-fact way, it is essential for us to say, in the old- fashioned way, “Lawbreakers will get the punishment due to them.”

By the way, the world is hoping America will come to its senses!

-- Mary W Maxwell is author of a book about a similar “bombing,” Stop Lying about the Marathon Bombing – Or Else (2024). In this case, the wrongly convicted guy is still on Earth, still breathing (Jahar Tsarnaev). Price at Amazon is $12.50. Here is a free PDF: https://gumshoenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/MaryMaxwell_StopLyingAboutTheMarathonBombing_.pdf