Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh

by Wendy S. Painting

The strange thing was that Mildner was not suspended because syringes were delivered to the inmates under his watch but because, after the incident, he tightened security and put preventive measures in place to stop such things from happening.

Mildner’s supervisors overrode and countermanded the security measures, after which additional contraband (this time unspecified) was found on their trays. After Mildner’s suspension resulted in an outcry from other correctional officers, Warden Thompson clumsily explained that the only reason he suspended Mildner was that he opened his big mouth about the incident; an act Warden Thompson said he

viewed as a threat to McVeigh and Nichols’ privacy. (No matter that both were under constant CCTV surveillance and that attorney-client me...

James Nichols wrote that while at El Reno Prison, both his brother Terry and McVeigh “received a hypodermic syringe and cigarette butts on their food trays, apparently from someone who was making a ...

The Jones Team seems to have been unaware of the exact nature of these goings on, as they filed motions requesting that the court compel El Reno prison (and any other agency that would know) to disclose any security threats to McVeigh. The court sealed the motions.

The death of an El Reno prison guard who worked under Mildner on McVeigh’s cell-block resulted in suspicion from within conspiracy theory circles that the guard had seen something he shouldn’t have, perhaps even visits by the spectral Dr. Jolly West who, they speculated, was probably on one of his brainwashing excursions.

the fact remains that in the two years after the bombing, there were suspicious deaths of people in a position to have insider knowledge about McVeigh or the bombing.