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Five forgotten facts about the Oklahoma City bombing

Here are five facts about the Oklahoma City bombing that may have faded from memories in the 20 years since the deadly terrorist attack.

Story by Nolan Clay

But, for a long time after all the bodies were recovered, the death toll was reported as 169.

 

The count was higher in 1995 because of a severed, decomposed left leg in a black leather boot that could not be identified for months. Eventually, investigators determined the leg was from a known victim, Lakesha Levy, an airman at Tinker Air Force Base.

 

Turns out that in the chaos after the bombing the wrong left leg had been placed with Levy’s body. The mystery continued, though, when the mismatched leg was recovered from Levy’s above-ground crypt in New Orleans in 1996.

 

The new left leg could never be identified. Most experts agree the shaved leg is likely from a known victim — a short woman.

 

Fred Jordan, the state’s chief medical examiner at the time of the bombing, testified at bombing co-conspirator Terry Nichols’ state trial in 2004 that was his “gut feeling.”

 

Outside the courthouse, Jordan told reporters: “I’ve always thought this had to be a mistake on our part. ... There were a lot of missing parts. ... http://www.newsok.com/article/5409414

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