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Timothy McVeigh begins his plot to blow up the OKC Federal Building.
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McVeigh and Nichols purchase the first ton of ammonium nitrate for the bomb.
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McVeigh and Nichols steal explosives from a storage in Marion, Kansas.
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McVeigh and Nichols purchase the second ton of ammonium nitrate for the bomb.
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McVeigh buys a 1977 Mercury Marquis as his getaway car at a Firestone Store in Junction City, Kansas. He then checks into the Dreamland motel and gives an address in Decker, Michigan.
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McVeigh picks up the 20 foot Ryder Truck from Elliott's Body Shop in Junction City Kansas that will hold the bomb. He rents the truck under the name Robert Kling.
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At 9:02 a.m. the bomb explodes infront of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
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At 10:20 a.m. McVeigh is arrested during a traffic stop for being in possesion of a firearm.
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At 11:30 a.m. the vehicle identification number of a rear axle belonging to the Ryder truck is found. Employees at Elliott's Body Shop assist the FBI artist in creating two sketches of the suspects.
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Authorities release the sketches of the two suspects calling them John Doe No. 1 and John Doe No. 2. The manager of the Dreamland Motel in Junction City Kansas identified John Doe No. 1 as McVeigh.
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The FBI investigates the Decker, Michigan address given on the hotel registration and find out Terry Nichols has lived there and knows Timothy McVeigh from the army.
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Nichols surrenders after learning that authorities are looking for him and he is held on a material witness warrant. Federal Agents later take him into custody.
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McVeigh is identified as the bombing suspect and charged in the bombing. He is taken to the federal prision in El Reno, Oklahoma.
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Nichols is charged in connection of the bombing.
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McVeigh's friend Michael Fortier and his wife Lori testify before a grand jury.
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A federal jury indicts McVeigh and Nichols on murder and conspiracy charges.
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Attorney General Janet Reno authorizes the death penalty in McVeigh's and Nichols' case.
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Judge Richard Matsch rules to seperate the trials of McVeigh and Nichols.
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The Jury finds McVeigh guilty on 11 counts including conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction, use of a weapon of mass destruction, destruction by explosive, and eight counts of first-degree murder.
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McVeigh is sentenced to death by lethal injection.
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Terry Nichols is found guilty of conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction and eight counts of involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of eight federal employees. He is not found guilty of destruction by explosive.
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Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in jail and fined $200,000 for not warning authorities about McVeigh's plan.
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Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison without parole.
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Timothy McVeigh is moved to death row at a federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana.
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McVeigh is executed by lethal injection.
