State prosecutors have said they want to put the two men on trial to insure that they are executed, should they somehow avoid that after Federal appeals.
Nichols, who has been indicted as a co-conspirator, there is an increasing probability of a state trial in Oklahoma for both men. McVeigh's appeals, and the upcoming trial of his friend, Terry L. McVeigh and his family than might have been expected from a woman who had lost the two little boys she helped raise, she - like others touched by the blast - faced the possibility of court battles in this ordeal that would last not just a few more months, but years.Īlong with Mr. On Friday, as she accepted the verdict with much more sadness for Mr. Maybe by then, the memories won't be quite so bad.'' ''And all we'll be left with is memories,'' she said in a telephone interview from Denver. Coverdale said, ''the reporters will stop calling, all the trials will be over.'' ''We have this to keep us going,'' she said of the seemingly never-ending court battle, and the attention she has drawn as one of the people wounded most deeply by the Oklahoma City bombing. "The evidence proves that Mitchell has the capacity to assist his counsel in his defense and the ability to behave appropriately in the courtroom," the federal judge writes in his 149-page ruling.The night before the jury sentenced her grandsons' killer to die, Jannie Coverdale sat in a borrowed apartment in Denver and wondered out loud whether she would ever have a life beyond the one Timothy J. March 1, 2010: Mitchell is deemed competent for trialĪfter years of disrupting hearings by delivering admonishments and singing hymns, Mitchell is found competent to stand trial. "It is my hope you will be able to find it in your heart and forgive me." "I'm so sorry, Elizabeth, for all the pain and suffering I caused you and your family," she says in court. Two weeks before another competency hearing commences for Mitchell, Barzee formally admits to her role in the kidnapping and enslavement of Smart. In October, after the state judge denies a request to forcibly medicate Mitchell, the case is transferred to the federal court system. March 5, 2008: Mitchell and Barzee are indicted on federal chargesĪ federal grand jury indicts Mitchell and Barzee on charges of interstate kidnapping and unlawful transportation of a minor across state lines. One year after Barzee is deemed unfit for trial, a state judge issues the same ruling for Mitchell, putting the case on hold as both are confined to Utah State Hospital. July 26, 2005: Mitchell is found incompetent to stand trial The teenager is taken to the police station in her hometown, where she joyfully reunites with her family. Smart and her two captors are discovered walking the street in Sandy, Utah, a few miles from Salt Lake City. March 12, 2003: Smart is rescued and reunited with her family Mitchell agrees and soon has them hitchhiking back to Utah. Upon coming to a page of a muscular woman, she suddenly remembers the homeless handyman who helped fix the roof the previous year, his voice identical to the one that ordered her sister out of their room on that traumatic night in June.įebruary 3, 2003: The Smart family publicizes Mitchell's police sketchĪfter clashing with authorities over the issue, the Smart family goes public with a sketch of "Immanuel." Police downplay the significance of releasing the sketch, but a woman soon comes forward to say that the suspect may be her brother, while Mitchell's stepson identifies him after seeing the sketch and a photo on the February 15 episode of America's Most Wanted.įebruary 2003: Smart persuades Mitchell to take them back to Salt Lake Cityįollowing Mitchell's announcement that the family will move to a faraway city like New York or Boston, Smart shrewdly reveals her "belief" that God wants them to return to Salt Lake City. The recollection comes as Mary Katherine thumbs through a Guinness Book of World Records.
Oct 12, 2002: Mary Katherine remembers her sister's abductor