August 2, 1995
CNN Oklahoma City Bureau Chief Tony Clark
OKLAHOMA CITY (CNN) -- CNN has discovered new information that ties suspect Timothy McVeigh to the alias used to rent the truck for the bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building. The truck linked to the bombing was rented in Junction City, Kansas, with a phony driver's license under the name, "Bob Kling." CNN has found records which indicate McVeigh had been using that same name months and years before the bombing.
That paper trail could help back up eyewitness identifications of McVeigh as the man in the sketch who rented the Ryder truck.
CNN ran a computer check on the credit summary for the social security number for McVeigh, which was made public in court papers filed by prosecutors. Not only did McVeigh's name come up, but so did credit applications for other names, under his same social security number, at addresses belonging to McVeigh -- in New York, Michigan, Kansas and Arizona. McVeigh's social security number was used in each of those four states to get credit under the name "Robert Kling."
Also found in the computer check: a second alias tied to the bombing. An FBI affidavit says a storage shed in Herington, Kansas, was rented under the name "Shawn Rivers" just one week before someone bought a ton of ammonium nitrate from a farm co-op in Kansas last September.
The same credit records show McVeigh's social security number was used with that name, Shawn Rivers. Each time, the Rivers name carried McVeigh's own addresses in the same four states, New York, Michigan, Kansas and Arizona.
The FBI has said McVeigh's fingerprint was found on a receipt for the purchase of the ammonium nitrate -- the major component in the bomb used in the nation's worst mass murder case ever.
The credit records were obtained from a publicly available computer data base.
The addresses used with the names of Kling and Rivers include McVeigh's father's home in Lockport, New York; the Army base at Fort Riley, Kansas; and mail drop services in Michigan and Kingman, Arizona, rented by McVeigh.
Prosecutors face a deadline at the end of next week to indict McVeigh in the bombing. His younger sister, Jennifer McVeigh, was due to go before the federal grand jury Wednesday, under a subpoena to testify against her brother in the investigation. Sources said she has been promised she will not be prosecuted for anything she says. But her grand jury testimony remains secret, by law.
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