The boy was born in September 1991, but suffocated in an accident on Nov. 22, 1993. Over the next few years, the Nichols family drifted between Michigan and the Las Vegas area, where young Josh lived with his mother. After the Gulf War, McVeigh left the Army and sought out his old friend. The two worked off and on at the same Michigan farm. They later sold military surplus at gun shows.
Prosecutors say that was the impetus for the bombing.
It's our position that Mr. McVeigh and Nichols did not just wake up one morning and agree to bomb a federal building,'' wrote prosecutor Sean Connelly in a court document asking that Nichols face the death penalty. His Mother Shows Support Nichols, who was at home with his family in Kansas when the bomb went off, went to the local police two days later and asked why his name was being broadcast on the news. The FBI quickly arrived - and interviewed him for more than nine hours. Those statements, which prosecutors say are highly incriminating, were barred from the McVeigh trial. But they will most likely be used in this trial.