Matsch orders McVeigh and Nichols to be tried separately, ruling their rights could be compromised by joint trial. Nichols will be tried after McVeigh, but no date has been set. Four FBI workers who evaluated evidence are transferred out of crime lab in wake of federal report critical of lab procedures. The Dallas Morning News reports that McVeigh confessed. Two other reports on purported confession follow.
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