Timothy McVeigh murdered 168 people, including children, in a terrorist act using a massive truck bomb to blow up a federal building in Oklahoma City (Saferstein, 2015). Investigators collected an enormous amount of evidence, which successfully aided in the jury convicting McVeigh to death after only three days of deliberating (Saferstein, 2015).
The task force assembled to investigate the bombing consisted of more than 1400 law enforcement officers (Evidence, n.d.). The amount of evidence these investigators collected was massive and estimated to be over 7,000lbs consisting of 23,290 pieces (Evidence, n.d.). Timothy McVeigh rented a Ryder truck and used that to house his homemade bomb. After the explosion, investigators found one of