Killing My Father Quotes

“Mike tried to downplay what it would take to overcome the DOJ and FBI’s opposition, telling Dick, “You know what? It’s okay. O’Sullivan may be the big dog in New England, but we’re from Oklahoma, and we are going to prosecute this murder in Tulsa County.”
― David B. Wheeler, Killing My Father: The Inside Story of The Biggest FBI Corruption Scandal In History

“As a result, Tulsa Police received information from a confidential source confirming that Flemmi, Bulger, and Martorano were indeed good suspects for the Wheeler murder. They also learned that the FBI had possessed this information for quite some time.[”
― David B. Wheeler, Killing My Father: The Inside Story of The Biggest FBI Corruption Scandal In History

“day.”[503] Despite the FBI’s vague and self-serving description of what had happened, Mike correctly guessed that the FBI was “privy to some sort of lead, and they didn’t give the lead to us.” Mike hurried back to the station and announced, “We’re getting screwed.”[504] This was truly a David versus Goliath contest between the Tulsa Police Department and the FBI.”
― David B. Wheeler, Killing My Father: The Inside Story of The Biggest FBI Corruption Scandal In History

“Suspiciously, even though Mike was the lead detective on Dad’s homicide investigation, Mackechney had given me more information, most critically, that Halloran had implicated Rico in the murder. Even so, Mike would later describe this conversation as “a groundbreaking moment.” He now knew that he was “getting ready to walk into a battle…I knew things were going to be happening to me. The trust [in the FBI] had been broken officially that day.”[”
― David B. Wheeler, Killing My Father: The Inside Story of The Biggest FBI Corruption Scandal In History

“Four or five days after Halloran’s death, a reporter with the Quincy Patriot Ledger called Major Stanley D. Glanz, who was in charge of the Tulsa Police Department’s Detective Division, to ask how Halloran’s murder impacted the Wheeler investigation. To his shock, Glanz had never even heard of Halloran.[489] Glanz hadn’t gone on the July 6, 1981, trip to Massachusetts State Police headquarters, where Halloran was identified as the top suspect in Dad’s murder, and he probably hadn’t read Bishop’s trip report,[490] so he didn’t know what the reporter was talking about. More importantly, in the four or five days after Halloran’s murder, the FBI still hadn’t told the Tulsa police that they had an informant on Dad’s murder, much less that this informant had been shot.”
― David B. Wheeler, Killing My Father: The Inside Story of The Biggest FBI Corruption Scandal In History

“I couldn’t imagine that the FBI was keeping Halloran a secret from the police. As it turns out, my mistake was the right one to make, for it revealed just how sinister Mike’s counterparts at the DOJ and FBI had become.”
― David B. Wheeler, Killing My Father: The Inside Story of The Biggest FBI Corruption Scandal In History

“As days turned into months, Agent Mackechney’s claim that Halloran was unreliable sounded increasingly like a lie. The more I thought about how much Halloran’s story matched mine, the more I worried. I tried to suppress my fear that the FBI murdered Halloran to protect Rico and his team of ex-agents. If the FBI was willing to kill Halloran for talking about who killed Dad, what did that say about my future? Would I be their next victim?”
― David B. Wheeler, Killing My Father: The Inside Story of The Biggest FBI Corruption Scandal In History