ABSTRACT
In Minneapolis a number of years ago, I met with retired FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) agent Jim Norman, who had played a pivotal role as the overall case agent, or lead investigator, in the investigation of the anarchist bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City by Timothy McVeigh. He related that he was sent to interview McVeigh and take him into federal custody aer he had been stopped by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol for driving without a license plate and wearing a concealed Glock pistol under his jacket. e former agent explained that he wanted to get McVeigh’s attention and to test him for indicators of guilt and guilty knowledge. To do
Freshness and Sincerity 79 Necessary Groundwork: Structuring of an Interview 80 Interview Flow 81 Stimulating “Readable” Behavior 87 Speculation 89 Delivering the Question 89 Building Up to a Question 90 Question Formulation and Structure 91 Questioning Format 93 Bait/Dangle Questions 95 So Words 96 Job of the Interviewer and the Interrogator 97 Magic Words: RPMs and emes 100 Test of Commitment and Scenario Evaluation 104 Final Truth 105 Validation 106 Bibliography 107
that, he had McVeigh brought into a room and, sitting across from McVeigh, asked the question in Case 7.1.
