FBI Search Former Home of Terry Nichols

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Thursday, March 31, 2005 11:45 p.m. ET

HERINGTON, Kan. (AP) -- FBI agents Thursday searched a home where Oklahoma City bombing co-conspirator Terry Nichols used to live after receiving a report that there were explosives inside.

If explosives are found, FBI spokesman Jeff Lanza said, agents will investigate whether they are connected to Nichols, who has not lived in the home near downtown Herington for years.

Nichols was living in the home at the time of the April 19, 1995, bombing, which killed 168 people.

Georgia Rucker, a Herington real estate agent, has owned the home since 1997 and rented it out several times. She said Thursday that the last tenant was evicted in October and she had been preparing the home for sale in recent weeks.

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1. Because someone at the FBI doesn't like someone and...

you own a home that they were in *TEN* years previously, they can destroy your home? WTF!

A friend had his home totaled by the GBI (Georgia) five years ago about a month after he bought it. They were pissed-off at the previous owner and riped-out all of the sheet rock, ceilings, and floors. They also ruined the brand-new heat pump. The heat pump was put in after the previous owner moved-out so they had no cause to destroy it. They also did quite a bit of structural damange when they removed a safe by cutting a hole in the side of the house and roof and then removed it with a crane. They did $7,500 worth of damage to the septic tank by driving over it with the bulldozer they were using to dig-up the yard. In the end, my friend ended-up having to abandon the house. It was just a $30k mill hourse, but when that's your home and it's all you can afford, it is a big deal.