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The OKC Bombing: Week Before The Bombing, 3 Suspects Visited Club
by Richard Booth
November 1st, 2019
(abridged excerpt from 'John Doe #2 and the Oklahoma City Bombing' by R. Booth)
April 8th, 1995 (Saturday)
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Lady Godiva's Gentleman's Club
Approximately 9:00 PM to Midnight
Saturday, April 8th, 1995, Timothy McVeigh and two other men paid a visit to a Tulsa strip club called Lady Godiva's. The club's owners were Floyd Radcliffe and his wife, Julie. They had an audio/video security system in the dancer's prep room and the surveillance system captured a cocktail waitress, Tara, talking to a dancer about her encounter with Timothy McVeigh that very night. On video, Tara can be overheard telling the dancer all about it:
"One of them said, 'I'm a very smart man.' I said' You are?' and he goes 'Yes, I am. And on April 19, 1995, you'll remember me for the rest of your life!' I said 'Oh really?' and he says 'Yes, you will.' (see this footage here: https://youtu.be/6vnAW_875aA)
Owner Floyd Radcliffe, upon discovering the footage, phoned the FBI who showed up a week or two later and confiscated the film. Investigative reporter J.D. Cash had begun his investigation of the event before the FBI arrived. Cash made a copy of the security tape before the FBI got it, knowing that once the FBI got their hands on it, it would probably disappear. Cash provided the tape to Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's news program 'The Fifth Estate' and together they carried out an investigation, interviewing the staff at at the club.
The dancers identified Timothy McVeigh from a photo spread as the tallest of the three men, the one who boasted to the cocktail waitress about April 19th. One of the other men with McVeigh was identified from a photo spread of over a dozen men as Andreas Strassmeir. Strassmeir was described as quiet, but easily identifiable due to his buck teeth and German accent. Owner Julie Radcliffe told journalist Jon Ronson that all "the girls identified Strassmeir. They all did identify that gentleman."
Likewise, the other man was also identified. He was described as the man paying for the drinks that night, flashing a wad of $100 bills and talking a lot to the girls. That man, described as 5'8 - 5'9, 170-180 pounds, muscular, dark hair, brown eyes, tan complexion, fitted the description of the FBI's 'John Doe #2' suspect. One dancer, Cassie, told Washington Post reporter Peter Carlson that the man looked just like the John Doe #2 sketch. Upon seeing the sketch she said "I recognize him; he's the one who was sitting in a back booth, talking with other girls." He too was identified out of a dozen men in a photo spread, described by the dancers as "very good looking, but full of himself." The dancers all picked a photograph of Michael Brescia, identifying him as the third man, the one who did the most talking. At the time, Brescia was Andreas Strassmeir's roommate and a member of a domestic terrorist organization called 'The Aryan Republican Army' which had enriched themselves through a spree of 22 midwestern bank robberies, perhaps explaining the unemployed Brescia's wad of $100 bills.
What's more, Dale Culpepper, the club's bouncer, remembers spotting a faded older model Ryder truck in the parking lot with its logo painted over. This was before McVeigh had rented the 'bomb truck' on April 17th, but it aligns with other witness sightings who spotted an older, faded yellow truck at Geary Lake between the 10th and the 13th--later that week--and again at the Dreamland motel on the 14th, 15th, and Easter Sunday the 16th -- all before McVeigh rented the larger 20-foot Ryder truck from Elliott's body shop on Monday the 17th.
J.D. Cash published a piece about this story on September 15th, 1996, and the CBC aired the results of their investigation on the CBC news program 'The Fifth Estate' in the fall of 1996. By that time, one of the dancers who had identified McVeigh had been found dead in her apartment. Dancer Shawntelle Farrens was found dead in Tulsa the week Cash had begun his investigation, her death ruled a suicide by accidental or intentional drug overdose. However, former Tulsa police officer Craig Roberts, who examined the police report, noted that there was a bloody palm print found at the crime scene, leaving unresolved questions: was Shawntelle Farrens murdered? The other dancers and cocktail waitresses, however, had already gone on record: the men seen with Timothy McVeigh that night were Andreas Strassmeir, and his roommate, Michael Brescia. Both would later become central figures in investigative reporters' efforts to track down just who McVeigh's accomplices might have been. This encounter, just over a week before the bombing, fits into that puzzle and may shed light on who at least two of those accomplices were.
Sources:
* Cash, J.D. "Is A Videotape From A Tulsa Topless Bar The "Smoking Gun" In Oklahoma Bombing?" McCurtain Daily Gazette [Idabel, OK], 15 September 1996. Print.
* Cash, J.D. "Canadians Air Club Film" McCurtain Daily Gazette [Idabel, OK], 23 Oct 1996. Print.
* Ronson, John. "Conspirators." The Guardian, 4 May 2001. Web. 13 Feb 2013.
* "The Company They Keep." The Fifth Estate. The Canadian Broadcasting Company. 22 October 1996. Television.
* Carlson, Peter. "The Shadow - Did He Ever Really Exist?" Washington Post Magazine. 23 March 1997. Print.
* Jason Van Vleet. "Terror From Within." MGA Films, 28 August 2002. Television documentary, VHS.
* Evans-Pritchard, Ambrose. The Secret Life of Bill Clinton: The Unreported Stories. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 1997. pp 87-88
Re: Strassmeir and Brescia w/ McVeigh:
"they also picked out Michael Brescia and Andreas Strassmeir from a montage of photos" … "Brescia, they recalled, was very good looking, but full of himself. He was the one paying for the drinks and flashing hundred dollar bills."
* Ridgeway, James. "Beyond McVeigh: What the Feds Won't Tell You About Oklahoma City." The Village Voice, 15 May 2001. Print
Video: Footage from Lady Godiva's April 8th, 1995 where cocktail waitress 'Tara' talks about McVeigh's bragging to her:
https://youtu.be/6vnAW_875aA
Was 'John Doe #2' in the OKC bombing Michael Brescia?
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by Richard Booth
November 1st, 2019
(abridged excerpt from 'John Doe #2 and the Oklahoma City Bombing' by R. Booth)
April 8th, 1995 (Saturday)
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Lady Godiva's Gentleman's Club
Approximately 9:00 PM to Midnight
Saturday, April 8th, 1995, Timothy McVeigh and two other men paid a visit to a Tulsa strip club called Lady Godiva's. The club's owners were Floyd Radcliffe and his wife, Julie. They had an audio/video security system in the dancer's prep room and the surveillance system captured a cocktail waitress, Tara, talking to a dancer about her encounter with Timothy McVeigh that very night. On video, Tara can be overheard telling the dancer all about it:
"One of them said, 'I'm a very smart man.' I said' You are?' and he goes 'Yes, I am. And on April 19, 1995, you'll remember me for the rest of your life!' I said 'Oh really?' and he says 'Yes, you will.' (see this footage here: https://youtu.be/6vnAW_875aA)
Owner Floyd Radcliffe, upon discovering the footage, phoned the FBI who showed up a week or two later and confiscated the film. Investigative reporter J.D. Cash had begun his investigation of the event before the FBI arrived. Cash made a copy of the security tape before the FBI got it, knowing that once the FBI got their hands on it, it would probably disappear. Cash provided the tape to Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's news program 'The Fifth Estate' and together they carried out an investigation, interviewing the staff at at the club.
The dancers identified Timothy McVeigh from a photo spread as the tallest of the three men, the one who boasted to the cocktail waitress about April 19th. One of the other men with McVeigh was identified from a photo spread of over a dozen men as Andreas Strassmeir. Strassmeir was described as quiet, but easily identifiable due to his buck teeth and German accent. Owner Julie Radcliffe told journalist Jon Ronson that all "the girls identified Strassmeir. They all did identify that gentleman."
Likewise, the other man was also identified. He was described as the man paying for the drinks that night, flashing a wad of $100 bills and talking a lot to the girls. That man, described as 5'8 - 5'9, 170-180 pounds, muscular, dark hair, brown eyes, tan complexion, fitted the description of the FBI's 'John Doe #2' suspect. One dancer, Cassie, told Washington Post reporter Peter Carlson that the man looked just like the John Doe #2 sketch. Upon seeing the sketch she said "I recognize him; he's the one who was sitting in a back booth, talking with other girls." He too was identified out of a dozen men in a photo spread, described by the dancers as "very good looking, but full of himself." The dancers all picked a photograph of Michael Brescia, identifying him as the third man, the one who did the most talking. At the time, Brescia was Andreas Strassmeir's roommate and a member of a domestic terrorist organization called 'The Aryan Republican Army' which had enriched themselves through a spree of 22 midwestern bank robberies, perhaps explaining the unemployed Brescia's wad of $100 bills.
What's more, Dale Culpepper, the club's bouncer, remembers spotting a faded older model Ryder truck in the parking lot with its logo painted over. This was before McVeigh had rented the 'bomb truck' on April 17th, but it aligns with other witness sightings who spotted an older, faded yellow truck at Geary Lake between the 10th and the 13th--later that week--and again at the Dreamland motel on the 14th, 15th, and Easter Sunday the 16th -- all before McVeigh rented the larger 20-foot Ryder truck from Elliott's body shop on Monday the 17th.
J.D. Cash published a piece about this story on September 15th, 1996, and the CBC aired the results of their investigation on the CBC news program 'The Fifth Estate' in the fall of 1996. By that time, one of the dancers who had identified McVeigh had been found dead in her apartment. Dancer Shawntelle Farrens was found dead in Tulsa the week Cash had begun his investigation, her death ruled a suicide by accidental or intentional drug overdose. However, former Tulsa police officer Craig Roberts, who examined the police report, noted that there was a bloody palm print found at the crime scene, leaving unresolved questions: was Shawntelle Farrens murdered? The other dancers and cocktail waitresses, however, had already gone on record: the men seen with Timothy McVeigh that night were Andreas Strassmeir, and his roommate, Michael Brescia. Both would later become central figures in investigative reporters' efforts to track down just who McVeigh's accomplices might have been. This encounter, just over a week before the bombing, fits into that puzzle and may shed light on who at least two of those accomplices were.
Sources:
* Cash, J.D. "Is A Videotape From A Tulsa Topless Bar The "Smoking Gun" In Oklahoma Bombing?" McCurtain Daily Gazette [Idabel, OK], 15 September 1996. Print.
* Cash, J.D. "Canadians Air Club Film" McCurtain Daily Gazette [Idabel, OK], 23 Oct 1996. Print.
* Ronson, John. "Conspirators." The Guardian, 4 May 2001. Web. 13 Feb 2013.
* "The Company They Keep." The Fifth Estate. The Canadian Broadcasting Company. 22 October 1996. Television.
* Carlson, Peter. "The Shadow - Did He Ever Really Exist?" Washington Post Magazine. 23 March 1997. Print.
* Jason Van Vleet. "Terror From Within." MGA Films, 28 August 2002. Television documentary, VHS.
* Evans-Pritchard, Ambrose. The Secret Life of Bill Clinton: The Unreported Stories. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 1997. pp 87-88
Re: Strassmeir and Brescia w/ McVeigh:
"they also picked out Michael Brescia and Andreas Strassmeir from a montage of photos" … "Brescia, they recalled, was very good looking, but full of himself. He was the one paying for the drinks and flashing hundred dollar bills."
* Ridgeway, James. "Beyond McVeigh: What the Feds Won't Tell You About Oklahoma City." The Village Voice, 15 May 2001. Print
Video: Footage from Lady Godiva's April 8th, 1995 where cocktail waitress 'Tara' talks about McVeigh's bragging to her:
https://youtu.be/6vnAW_875aA
Was 'John Doe #2' in the OKC bombing Michael Brescia?
email: rbooth@protonmail.com
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My OKC video clips: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ5LDp...hvlmET4OxQ
My OKC documents: https://libertarianinstitute.org/okc/
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
--Winston Churchill
My OKC articles: https://medium.com/@rboothokc
My OKC video clips: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ5LDp...hvlmET4OxQ
My OKC documents: https://libertarianinstitute.org/okc/
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
--Winston Churchill