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Terry Nichols admitted his role in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing as part of secret plea negotiations last year, the Daily Oklahoman reported this week. Nichols, 49, is serving two life sentences after being convicted of murder in both state and federal courts, but he has never spoken publicly about the bombing, which tore apart the Alfred P. Murrah federal building and killed 168 people. But a few months before he was convicted in state court, Nichols told prosecutors that he’d helped Timothy McVeigh, the mastermind of the attack, with “the actual making of the bomb.” The pair constructed the device out of fertilizer and fuel. McVeigh was executed in 2001.
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