Records detail intense investigation of suspect in bombing at NAACP building - Colorado Springs Gazette
For days, authorities tracked a man they believed had tried to bomb a Colorado Springs building. Thaddeus Murphy, 44, is expected to accept a plea agreement Monday in a hearing scheduled at the U. S. District Court in Denver. Murphy was indicted by a federal grand jury and pleaded not guilty to arson and possessing a firearm as a felon in February. A trial scheduled to begin July 27 was vacated after Murphy's federal public defender notified the court in June that a plea agreement had been reached. 6 explosion outside 603 S. El Paso St. , described in Murphy's arrest affidavit, show the precedence authorities gave the investigation. DNA results were returned in days, agents from the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives aided with surveillance and evidence analysis and items as small as dog hairs were collected on the scene and scrutinized. While people expressed outrage over what appeared to be an attack on the Colorado Springs chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and others said the incident was a hoax, officials spent weeks behind the scene... There Murphy told officials that he. Source: gazette.com
