Terrance Yeakey, Executed Cop Who Knew Too Much - OKC 4 - YouTube
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[Music] Oklahoma City, 1995. April the 19th at 9:02 a.m. to be precise. In 1 minute, 168 souls will leave their mortal coils behind, and the federal building in downtown Oklahoma City will erupt into an inferno, leaving those still alive inside, trapped, and helpless. One man that day would redefine what it means to be a hero.
A fellow named Terren Yi, an officer with the Oklahoma City Police Department. Forsaking concern for his own safety, he runs into the federal building countless times, saving at least four lives that day. But in the process, he unknowingly signed his death warrant, sealing his fate for all eternity.
Because along with the victims barely clinging to life, he also spotted something else. What precisely, we can only wager. But whatever it was was enough to have his life robbed of him 385 days after he witnessed one of the most violent acts in the memory of mankind. Initially, Terrence Yaki's actions were heralded as heroic by his fellow officers, higherups, and the people of Oklahoma City.
With him being even slated to receive a host of awards for his actions, but Ykei hated that. He never wanted to be seen as a hero despite the undeniable fact that he was one. It's clear that he saw serving his community and doing what was right as the expectation, not heroism.
And outside of that, all else that mattered to Terrence was his family, his wife Tanya Yi and his two daughters. And it's this desire to protect that which he held most dear that gave him the inspiration to risk his very life to bring the truth of April the 19th of 1996 to the public eye. Terrence was a man of value far before that day when he saved so many lives and he does remain one to this very day.
But where his story begins in relation to what we are discussing today is in the first few days after the attack. Terrence was in the hospital attempting to regain strength after suffering a back injury while carrying a man named Randy Ledger out of the Oklahoma federal building.
Terrence Yaki's wife Tanya learned of this when the Presbyterian Hospital called her saying that she needed to come pick up Terrence because he was unable to drive. And so she did just that. And upon Yi getting into the car, he began to weep. Soon as they loaded him into the car, uh he got very upset. um started to cry a little bit and said, "Uh, Tanya, it's not what they're saying it is. They're not telling the truth. They're lying about what's going on down there.
" And um I did try to press him a little bit, ask him questions, but he didn't seem very willing to talk about it. Um it it was just kind of a a comment, you know, it's not what it's not what they're portraying it to be. Ykei clearly, like us today, understood that something was deeply wrong with the narrative being spun of the lone bomber and all the ensuing other things that we've discussed. so far in this series and we do have reason to speculate just what he might have known based on the location of many of the people that he
saved that being in the general vicinity of the daycare and likely from everything we've discussed this was direct evidence of a second explosion in deeper crater which is then at minimum what Ykei was aware of Yi also pointed out the simple fact that there were far too many federal agents on the scene too quickly this is something he would discuss with his co-workers as well as his family especially the ATF who were already in full riot gear just minutes after the incident and considering riot gear takes a while to put on and the ATF should have been incinerated in the explosion of the building since her
office was in the federal building. Ykei thought this was supremely strange. And yet the incidents of OKC on that day are not precisely what we're here for. We're here for the story of Yi, although that is most certainly related to him. And because of these experiences and all these reservations culminated in Ykei wanting to make his way back down to the scene a few days after he left the hospital. And so he requested his wife. And around 9:30 or 10 p.m.
, Ykei and his wife did make it to the scene, which at this point had been fenced in and was guarded by the feds. But Terry presumed that by using his badge and showing up at night, he had the best chance of being unseen or getting into the actual scene.
But in this case, it didn't work because an ATF or perhaps FBI agent Tonia doesn't exactly recall with 100% certainty which. But in either case, it was this agent who stopped them. And this agent told Ykei in an eerily familiar manner, quote, "You are not supposed to be backed down here." Tanya sensed that some bizarre course of action had occurred, that this man knew Yi and Ykei did not like him. Antonia said later in an interview in 1998 that she presumes that had she not been there, Terry likely would have become more aggressive with the man. I mean, after all, he was a unit and few could overpower him. Indeed, he once responded
to a call of a fellow officer in need of assistance only to be surrounded by a gang. And right before the two cops were going to be attacked, Terry, one hand grabbed the gang's leader, lifted him straight off the ground, Darth Vaderesque, and literally crumpled him into a piece of paper.
The other miscreants fled that day, and he saved both of their lives. An indication of Terry's immense strength for sure, but even more so his reserve and thoughtfulness when necessary. Because that night, he did not force his way into the scene. Instead, he took his wife and went home.
In addition to this, we also know that Terry was meticulous, had a strong memory for the calls he went on, and often gave very detailed reports, and this was certainly the case with his experience in downtown OKC the day of the attack. After recovering in the hospital and at home, he wrote a nine-page report, which is extremely long by police standards, and it detailed everything he witnessed and had ascertained from the bomb site.
This included obviously his thoughts on who and how many people were involved. However, unlike other reports, when his wife asked about this specific one, he refused to allow her to read it or even to talk about it. This was a clear indication to Tanya later that something was clearly wrong. He was never recalcitrant with her as to his work.
If she asked questions, he was almost always happy to answer or let her read about it. And despite multiple times asking him, Terry wouldn't break and kept it to himself. That was until he had refined everything down into these nine pages, at which point he brought it to his superior officer for review.
And I guess still having a little faith left in the system, he suspected something would happen and the truth would get out from this. But no, in fact, quite the opposite occurred. Terry came home one day to Tanya furious, stating that the report had disappeared. His higherups simply no longer possessed it. At least not publicly, that is. In fact, they now demanded him to rewrite it, except for this time, instead of nine pages, they wanted only one, effectively cutting out anything that didn't align with the official narrative. And as we can tell, Terry refused to such a degree that his
wife got a phone call from a goblin shrew that was one of Terry's supervisors. And she in a hostile and aggressive manner asked Tanya where Terry was when it was clear he was going to be coming to the phone. The supervisor told Tanya to quote, "Tell Terry if he doesn't get that other report in that he's going to be reprimanded.
" And CNN of all places shockingly did some research on this in 2023 and asked the OKC Police Department if any officers reports had gone missing on the bombing to which the spokesman for the Oklahoma City Police Department declined to answer. In fact, he declined to answer the entirety of their questions which were many dozens because the materials requested were quote not an open record.
So even now the succubi and hell hounds of the Oklahoma City Police Department are covering up the facts of Ykei's demise. However, not all members of the OKC Police Department are quite so corrupt. There are good ones, too, like Steve Vazer, a fellow police officer alongside Yaki, who also wrote his account of the attack in one of his supplemental reports. Indeed, it also did not align with the official narrative.
But perhaps because he hadn't seen quite as much as Terry or been so adamant about what he had seen, he was never threatened. No investigator ever met to speak with him either, though, despite what he wrote in his report, and he was never reprimanded. Instead, he continued his career on accosted until one day he became a little curious and decided to search the OKC police department for the records of the first responders on that fateful day and to see if he could find his report.
And he noticed the strong but undeniable fact that his report was not there. But it was more than that. None of his reports on the bombing case were there. In his own words, he says, quote, "They were gone. They were not in the system as if I was never there." Yiki, however, was not so fortunate as to simply have his report deleted from the account.
Like Vazer, if Vazers even made it there at all. No, for the next 260 some odd days from this point in his story onward, Yankee would suffer a cruel and unusual torture as he sought for someone or some way to get the truth out, but kept meeting dead ends.
And these dead ends led him to strange places and people he otherwise never would have met. One of these events was an encounter with a soon-to-be compatriate, Ramona Macdonald, a local businesswoman who was downtown the day of the explosion. Ramona was volunteering in the rescue and recovery efforts, trying to do as much for the victims of the explosion as she could.
And from that became intertwined in the story, meeting with the survivors, helping take care of them, but also having conversations with those who doubted the nature of the events that day. And therefore, her home became a sounding board of sorts where people would meet and discuss and try and figure out what had actually happened that day, not what the FBI was saying, as well as store some critical evidence, including documents and photos and all other materials at her house.
Among that evidence just so happened to rest Ykei's nine-page report from the day of the bombing, a report for which contains likely the most true accounting for the events, as Ykei was the first man into the building and really the only man who had ever tried to voice what had happened.
And over that final year, the two of them had become close friends, doing their best to figure out the story of what had actually happened. And because of that, one should not be surprised that two men came to visit her house in the ensuing millu of months after the bombing. And off the cuff, she surmised them to be feds. And they didn't say no and instead told her they were members of a task force that was in charge of investigating the bombing.
And on that day, they spent hours perusing Ramona's collection. It wouldn't be until later, however, that Ramona came to know their real intention and not simply the stated one. But that's for later. In addition to the nine-page report and other important information, Terry also shared his more personal feelings with her about the horrible stuff that was going on and who he thought might be involved.
And that information came in a single letter that I think is worth reading in full. Dear Ramona, I hope that whatever you hear now and in the future will not change your opinions about myself or others within the Oklahoma City Police Department. Although some of the things I'm about to tell you about is very disturbing. I don't know if you recall everything that happened that morning or not, so I'm not sure if you know what I'm referring to.
The man that you and I were talking about in the pictures I have made the mistake of asking too many questions as to his role in the bombing and was told to back off. I was told by several officers he was an ATF agent who was overseeing the bombing plot and at the time the photos were taken, he was calling in his report of what had just went down.
I think my days as a police officer are numbered because of the way my supervisors are acting and there is a lot of secrets floating around now about my mental state of mind. I think they are going to write me up because of my ex-wife and a VPO. I told you about talking to Chaplain Poe as well. The bastard wrote me up in a report stating I should be relieved of my duties.
I made the mistake of thinking that a person's conversation with a chaplain was private, which by the way might have cost me my job as a police officer. A friend at headquarters told me that Po sent out letters to everyone in the department. That dog Joanne Randall I told you about is up to something and I think it has something to do with Po.
If she gets her way, they will tar and feather me. I was told Jackpo has a written up report on every single officer that has been in to see him, including Gordon Martin and John Avery. Knowing what I know now, and understanding fully just what went down that morning makes me ashamed to wear a badge for Oklahoma City's police department.
I took an oath to uphold the law and to enforce the law to the best of my ability. This is something I cannot honestly do and hold my head up and be proud of any longer if I keep my silence as I am ordered to do. There are several others out there who also saw what we saw and even some who played a role in what happened that day.
Important note here, the brackets tell us that two pages of the letter are missing also were probably taken by those agents. My guess is the more time an officer has to think about this crew, the more he is going to question what happened. Can you imagine what would be coming down now if that had been our officers who would let this happen? Because it was the feds that did this and not the locals is the reason it's okay. You were right all along and I'm truly sorry I doubted you and your motives about recording history.
You should know that it's going to be one heck of a fight. Everyone was behind you until you started asking questions as I did as to how so many federal agents arrived at the scene of the crime. Luke Fray, a BTF agent who claimed he was in the building, was not in the building at the time of the blast. I know this for a fact. I saw him. I also saw full riot gear worn with rifles in hand.
Why? Don't make the mistake as I did and ask the wrong people. I worry about you and your young family because of some of the statements that have been made towards me, a police officer. Whatever you do, do not confront McFerson with the bomb squad about what I told you.
His actions and defensiveness towards the bombing would make any normal person think he was defending himself as if he drove the dang bomb truck into the building himself. I'm not worried for myself, but for you and your group. I would not be afraid to say at this time that you and your family could be harmed if you get any closer to the truth.
At this time, I think for your well-being, it is best for you to distance yourself and others from those of us who have stirred up too many questions about the altering and falsifying of the federal investigations reports. I truly believe there are other officers like me out there who would not settle for anything but the truth. It is just a matter of finding them.
The only true problem I see as it is, who do we turn to then? It is vital that people like you, Eddie Smith, and others keep asking questions and demanding answers for the actions of our federal government and law enforcement agencies that knew beforehand and participated in the cover up. The sad truth of the matter is that they have so many police officers convinced that by covering up the truth about the operation gone wrong that they are actually doing our citizens a favor.
What I want to know is how many other operations have they had that blew up in their faces? makes you stop and take another look at Waco. I would consider it an insult to my profession as a police officer and to the citizens of Oklahoma for any of the city, state, or federal agencies that stood by and let this happen to be recognized as anything other than their part in participation in letting this happen.
For those who ran from the scene to change their attire, to hide the fact that they were there should be judged as cowards. If our history books and records are ever truly corrected about what happened that day, it will show this and maybe even some lame excuse as to why that happened. But I truly don't believe it will be from what I know to be the truth.
Even if I tried to explain to you the way it was explained to me and the ridiculous reason for having our own police departments falsify reports to their fellow officers and the citizens of the state and of the country, you would understand why I feel the way I do about this. I believe that a lot of problems the officers are having right now are because some of them know what really happened and can't deal with it.
And others like myself made the mistake of trusting the one person we were supposed to be able to turn to, Chaplam Poe, only to be stabbed in the back. I am sad to say that I believe my days as a police officer are numbered because of this. Clearly, Yagi had become in a matter of months intimately familiar with the information we are just now beginning to really uncover and admit to about 30 years later.
And unsurprisingly, he was correct about the damage that was going to cause to Romana to warn her as she was harassed so much and to such an awful extent that she had to change her name and move away. But Leaky was also correct about himself. He did not have much longer left as a police officer. And this led him to further odd behavior. Like 2 weeks before his demise, he showed up at his ex-wife Tanya's front door and was telling her that they had to get remarried and that was the only way he could protect and provide for her and the girls. He did this several times over the course of the last weeks of his life. sometimes at
2:30 in the morning, sometimes at 4:00 a.m. It'd come with life insurance papers and plead to get remarried. To her credit, Tanya did not say no. Indeed, had things gone differently, we likely would have seen them remarried not too long after, as she still keeps the last name, Ykei based.
And yet, they would never get such an opportunity. Before continuing though, this may sound like a critical point, but it goes beyond the clear evidence he knew he was in danger and shows us something important to remember for later.
These life insurance policies that Yankee had brought to her were those which did not pay out if the deedant passed away by his own hand. Remember that throughout this bizarre period, his wife wished to know more. And yet Ykei refused to tell her because he wanted to make sure that no one came for her and the girls like they had come for him. Sadly, this wouldn't be true anyway, as we shall see.
And for Tanya, this was merely the crowning jewel of a year of disturbing behavior and torture for the family, and things had become downright painful to bear. But for Ykei, Tanya would later learn that it was just another day of his new life. Indeed, after Terry passed away, Tanya was told by someone in the know at the police department that was a friend of Terror that he had begun receiving death threats just a few days after the bombing.
And it does seem that these were not merely threats because on the 8th of May of 1996, Sergeant Terrence Yi, who is only 3 days from receiving the Oklahoma City Police Department's Medal of Valor, was found deceased in a random field outside of El Reno. The only real hint we have about what happened that day comes from Ramona.
Yankee came to her house and they sat down for coffee. Yankee told her that he had had an appointment to go to after this where there were two men he was supposed to meet. And from the description of these men, Romana believed that they were the same ones who had come to her home and produced her files on the bombing.
Yiki said that they were interested in the material he had built up and wanted him to bring the pictures, videos, and documents that he had acquired. And according to Ramona, Ykei was extremely conflicted on what to do. On the one hand, he could go and perhaps this was his moment to finally get the story out and get it into the hands of people who could really do something about it. While on the other, this could mean the follow through on all those threats he had been receiving.
Eventually, however, he did decide to go, but not before notifying Romana of a rather indescribably bizarre precaution he had taken, especially in light of what the police actually said happened to him. Yaki had made the decision to go unarmed because he did not wish for his own gun to be used against him.
researching this topic, there was only so much one can find before you run into the one source that actually has this original information. And that is an article written by David Hoffman in the year 1997. And he wrote on this matter having sources that simply no longer exist for us, either cuz they've passed away, disappeared, or gone completely silent.
And so now I'm going to read from his article, and I'll add only the points that have become relevant and have been updated upon in later years. But other than that, this thing has stood the test of time for almost 30 years since he wrote it. And I do want to give proper credit where credit is due.
Canadian County, Oklahoma Deputy Sheriff Mike Ramsay was cruising the area near the old Elino Reformatory when he noticed an abandoned vehicle in a field. Quote, "Immediately the hair stood up on the back of my neck," said the deputy. Ramsay came upon the empty car, which he immediately recognized as Ykees. "There was blood on both seats and a razor blade lying on the dash. Yankee was nowhere to be found.
" The deputy immediately called for a homicide investigator and taped off the scene. It wasn't until several hours later that police dogs finally located Ykeiy's body in a ditch a mile and a half away. While it was a Macob scene, the Oklahoma City Medical Examiner's report was even more gruesome.
The report released from the medical examiner described numerous superficial lacerations on the wrists, arms, throat, and neck, and a single bullet wound to the right temple. The report also showed another curious thing. The bullet had entered just above and in the right of the front ear and had exited toward the bottom of the left ear. Apparently, whoever held the gun held it at a downward angle.
A person doing this to themselves would tend to hold the gun at an upward angle or at the most level. It would be rather difficult for a large musclebound man like Ykei to hold a heavy service revolver or other large caliber weapon at a downward angle to their head. While it is true that a slug can alter its trajectory once inside the skull, a pathologist in the San Francisco Medical Examiner's Office told me that a 9mm or other Luger caliber weapon, the type commonly used by police officers, usually tends to travel in a straight line. But perhaps the most revealing evidence was that the wound did not have
a stellot, the telltale star shape caused by the dissipating gases from the gun's muzzle. At the close range of a self-ending weapon, such markings would clearly be present, unless, of course, the shooter had used a silencer. While Dr.
Larry Balding, Oklahoma City's chief medical examiner, quickly ruled the death a self-ending, another medical examiner's report would, according to Rivera, surfaced like an eerie, precient message from the grave. This other report, quickly redacted and hidden from public view, showed a face that was bruised and swollen, blood on the body and clothes that was not the dead man's blood type, and multiple deep lacerations filled with grass and dirt, as though the body had been dragged a distance.
Yet, according to Rivera, Major Upurch denied that Ykei's throat was slashed at all. She was later told by a sympathetic police dispatcher that his throat was indeed slashed deeply. Dr. Larry Balding, who signed off on the Yiki report, is adamant. I can tell you unequivocally and without a doubt that there was no other me report. Of course, a lying demonfed.
That's my addition, not his. Yet, while claiming a social function, Rivera claims her sister had a chance encounter with the mortician who worked on Ykei's body. She was discussing the strange inconsistencies of his death with someone at the party when the mortician, not knowing the woman was Rivera's sister, spoke up. "That sounds just like a police officer we worked on in Oklahoma City," he said.
When asked if that man happened to be Terrence Yi, the mortician freaked. Rivera is Ykei's wife's maiden name. When pressed, he told the shocked relative that the dead man's wrists contained rope burns and handcuff marks. A former FBI agent and police officer, the mortician said that Ykei's lacerations were already sewn up when the body arrived from the medical examiner's office. Dr.
Balding's response to this was that the marks were merely skin slippage resulting from the natural decomposition of the body. Yet, stranger still, the body was not supposed to go to this particular funeral home at all, but to one in Watanga. While the OCPD was supposed to pay the expenses of the funeral, no funds were ever allocated, according to Rivera.
Vicki had to pay off the burial to Russ Worm Funeral Home. Quote, "So, I wonder if we paid somebody off to do the job." Vicki is Terry's mother. Was that job to clean up Yi so his manner of death wouldn't appear suspicious? This incident is similar to the murder of President John Kennedy, whose body was taken to Bethesda Naval Hospital instead of being examined by the Dallas Medical Examiner as a standard procedure.
Once there, medical pathologists and those controlling them were able to skew their findings to the satisfaction of the murderers. The chief pathologist burned his notes, and years later, when researchers went to examine Kennedy's brain, it was found missing from the National Archives. Apparently, Terrence Yaki's presumed murderers and those covering up his death had not counted on this particular mortician's testimony.
Was Terrence Yaki tortured? Was he murdered, then made to look like a suicide? Did he know something he wasn't supposed to know? Or was he simply despondent over life's circumstances? I don't believe would have done something like that. He was always happy and joking a lot.
One afternoon, while the family was at the police headquarters, an officer who Rivera described as Giggy's only true friend pulled them off to the side and whispered, quote, "They killed him." Perhaps the events on the morning of May 8th provide a clue as to who they are. If you thought that was awful, we're going to go into a little bit more detail now and we're going to read a section of the 1997 article entitled the crime scene.
I don't think anyone in their right mind actually believes the official narrative, but the detail is important. And never forget this is the same government still in power today. Canadian county sheriffs discovered the abandoned car filled with blood about 2 and 1/2 miles from the old Elno reformatory.
The OCPD was notified and police chief Sam Gonzalez flew out by chopper. Using dogs, they followed a trail of blood and found the body in a ditch about a mile and a half from the car. Leg. The officer reported the body was half a mile south of the car when in fact it was reported 1 and 1/2 miles northeast of the car. Apparently, Gakei had tried to cut himself in the wrists, neck, and throat.
Then, after losing approximately two pints of blood, got out of the car. There's a notation that says he also remembered to lock the doors and then proceeded to walk a mile and a half over rough terrain, crawl under a barred wire fence, wade through a covert, then lay down in a ditch and himself in the head.
He did all of this meanwhile while also continuing to lose massive amounts of blood. As if this weren't strange enough, Ykei's bloodrelated condition would have made him too weak to walk the mile and a half from his car to where his body was found, especially after losing two to three pints of blood and whatever other blood was lost on the way. Nevertheless, OCPD ruled it aside on the spot. Their investigation remained sealed.
This reporter was unable to obtain it, and not even the family was allowed to see it. There were so many things that were weird, said Miss Jeriah. That's Yankee's mom. My daughter kept going back to the police department. She said, "Well, what about this? We know he had a camcorder. We know he had a briefcase. These are things we never got back. The kid always carried his camera and film.
He never went anywhere without his camera and briefcase. He had all his important papers in there. We got the camera back, but never got the film back. We never got the briefcase. They said they never saw it. In regards to Yi's videos, Detective Mullenex, who quote unquote investigated the case for the OCPD, told Vicky Jones, "I really don't think he'll want to see those. They contained pornography." Jones didn't believe him and didn't care.
I want those tapes, she demanded. The homicide detective finally told her that she could have them back after they had quote examined the evidence. One minute the guy would say he had them, said Jones. The next he would say we didn't have anything. According to Jones, Mullen then said, "Now we all love to Terry.
I hope you understand that, but I'm not going to let you see any pictures, and I don't know anything about a briefcase, but if there is something back there, I'll give you a call and you can come get it then." And I just sat there and looked at him and said to myself, "You're doing a great performance, but it isn't working.
" And then he got really uptight and said, "Well, some of us hated Terry." Then he kind of grabbed his face and said, "Oh crap." For his part, Mullenex had no comment either way. He then told me, "I don't remember what I said to the lady, but I certainly was not rude to her." This comes as a big shock to me because he was a police officer and a friend of mine. It was a hard thing and hurt me to have to work it.
Captain Carlton likewise feigned shock at Jones's rebuffs and said she would have to know who the officer was who made those comments. He then asked me to have the family contact the OCPD directly as though they had not already done so numerous times. and he would meet with them and discuss the case, but that Captain Danny Cochran, chief of the homicide squad, would have to make the decision about whether or not to let her family see the files.
Yes, Carlton's statements fly in the face of the experiences of not only Ykei's mother and sister, but those of his ex-wife. In a letter to police chief Sam Gonzalez, dated September 4th, 1996, Rivera writes, "Needless to say, I have many questions regarding the investigation. What type of weapon was used to inflict the gunshot wound to his head? Who located the body? How could the cause of death be determined with such confidence with the multitude of injuries to his body? And how did he walk the distance indicated in People magazine with the great loss of blood from razor cuts, not only to both wrists, but also to his
forearms as well as two razor cuts to his neck. Not only did he walk this distance, but he also struggled with barbed wire fencing to reach his chosen destination to die, then inflicted the wound to himself. I request that a copy of the investigative report of his death be made available to me.
Gonzalez didn't respond. Police officials eventually responded to Vicky Jones, Terrence's mother, complaints by telling her that she needed to see a psychiatrist. They said, "We're just trying to protect you." It's sad that some feds think that telling lies is the best way to protect the people.
Continuing though, it is worth noting that something that was not known at the time this article was written, but we know now, is that there was never a firearm discovered at the scene of Yi's demise. The police scoured that thing for many hours, covering the entire distance to the car and back and around his body and a giant perimeter and never found anything, which if he had done this to himself, you know, you would find.
There was also only a knife found locked in the glove box of the car covered in blood, not razor blades. So then we have to wonder what happened to the initial report of razor blades from the first cop on the scene. But the other thing noted about the gun is that it did say that the police never found it.
But suddenly after the FBI arrived on scene, why I couldn't tell you, they found the gun within 5 minutes. And not just that, they found it in a place that had already been searched dozens of times. That obviously would have been right next to Terry. So clearly evidence is being planted, I suppose. And on top of that, one more fact is that the police department of Oklahoma didn't have jurisdiction over this case, and yet they took it anyway from the Canadian County Police Department, which doesn't happen like that.
And the chief later told Ykei's family that this is just what happens when it's an investigation of one of their own people. There's actually no precedent for that at all and it still has to be investigated by the actual precinct within that jurisdiction. Just some things to think about, I suppose. But things do get stranger.
So, let's continue from Hoffman's report, which like I said is so valuable because you won't find this information anywhere else because these witnesses have gone silent since this. Reading this is exceptionally brutal and leaves one flabbergasted to say the least. But I could not have suspected what would happen to this family after they were robbed of their provider and their leader.
Things got even worse to say the least for them. You would expect them to have been left alone. At least you would hope. But let's just say they were not. In fact, there's an entire section, maybe the longest, that discusses the surveillance and harassment of the family. So, let's begin.
Exactly what were they trying to protect the family from? When I called Miss Jeriah, Ykei's mom, the telltale continuous clicks revealing a tapped phone were clearly present. If Terrence Ykei's death was a simple self-ending, why would law enforcement agencies be tapping the family phones? The OCPD soon began conducting surveillance on the dead man's family. There was always an officer out there in front of our apartment, said Jones.
Anywhere we went, we had an officer or someone in a marked car following us. It started right after I started going to the police department quite a bit. They also tailed Rivera. When she confronted the officers, they ignored her, hid their faces, or sped off. Cars were parked outside her children's school.
When she spoke to school officials about the surveillance one afternoon, she went to work startled to find the conversation on her office answering machine. Rivera had spoken to the school principal in person. How did then the conversation wind up on her answering machine? That's sadistic. I got to add in that is sadistic. These people deserve the absolute worst. Not the family and obviously the feds.
The harassment against officer Ykei's family wasn't limited to mere surveillance. After Rivera met with state representative Charles Keyi, her car was broken into and her house was broken into twice. Important to note, Charles Keyi actually led a massive effort of investigators and was able to compile a 500page alternate report on the events of the bombing that we do plan on getting into later in the iceberg entries. So, he is a heavy hitter in this department.
She finally moved to Anid, another place in Oklahoma, when the heat became too hot. I quote, "I lived in an apartment on the third floor with a security alarm in it," said Rivera. "I'd come home and the alarm would be off. I noticed things out of place. There'd be cabinets open that I'd have no reason to have opened." About 2 weeks after Terry's death, Rivera went downstairs around 6:30 a.m.
one morning to do some laundry. And there was a man downstairs with a huge set of headphones on at 6:30 in the morning right behind my apartment. The individual who was wearing a jogging suit, wasn't jogging, and was not doing laundry. He looked startled when I came down around the corner, said Rivera.
I came back down again at 8:30 and the guy was still there. The author notes that it appears that what Rivera was describing was an audio technician with a shotgun mic, a portable surveillance tool designed to pick up conversations through windows and across fields. They're commonly used by private detectives and law enforcement agencies. One day, Rivera came home to find her front door open and off of its hinges.
When the frightened single mother walked into her bedroom, she found a balloon tied to her door and it read, "Get well soon. This will keep you busy until you do." I Same government, you guys. Same government. All I'll say.
It seems the OCPD and the FBI thought that officer Ykei had passed off some incriminating documents concerning the bombing cover up to his ex-wife and were intent on obtaining those documents. The surveillance, break-ins, and thinly veiled threats soon escalated into more serious incidents. Right before Ykei's death, the couple's Ford Explorer began getting mysterious flats.
And when I'd rolled into a shop, said Rivera, they'd pull out like six or seven nails. And this occurred between eight and nine times, she claims. Rivera explained that once during a quarrel, Terry had removed some fuses from her car to keep it from leaving. And the police knew about that incident, said Rivera, who thought the subsequent events were created by the OCPD to somehow sew mistrust and provide a convenient trail of evidence to prove that Ykei led a troubled family life. Yet, while Ykei admitted to removing the fuses, he also repeatedly and adamantly
denied that he had damaged the car, a car that was registered in his name and carried his cherished children to and from school. Also worth noting, the couple, obviously they were divorced, had had some issues in the past, but Terry had been spending a bunch of time with his wife and his kids, and they were obviously going to get back together because she's kept his name for 30 years.
So, it's horrible what they do on on that line as well. On April the 24th, 2 weeks before he was found dead, the explorer began acting strangely. When Rivera pulled it into the local MCO transmission center, she found it had been tampered with. "Somebody who knew what they were doing pulled those hoses from your car," said Todd Taylor, the chief mechanic.
I'm sorry to tell this, ma'am, but this is not just something you can pull randomly. Taylor also said that he thought Rivera's brakes had been tampered with. And on that note, about 2 weeks before this story went to press, the Ford's brakes went out suddenly while Rivera was traveling at 40 mph. I went to break, said Rivera. And guess what? No brakes.
The large 4x4 slammed into the back of a smaller car, damaging it badly. The message is, we can get to you if we want to, she concluded. Officer Jim Ramsay also began making his presence felt. All of the sudden when we moved to Oklahoma City from El Reno, said Jones, there was Ramsay. When we joined a new church, Ramsay was there. Ramsay was everywhere.
You turned the corner, there was Ramsay. Everything we did, he was like the helpful old guy. This went on for 2 months. He was keeping tabs on everyone, added Rivera. He was showing up in a lot of places, just casually. In fact, places where he knew that people knew me just as well as they knew Terry and weren't buying into the it's Tanya's fault routine.
Ramsay tried to claim it was his ex-wife and love for his children. He couldn't see that made him commit. She added he would talk to her friends. How's she doing? What does she think? Blah blah blah. Literal social manipulation by the feds. This is what we're paying for.
Both Rivera and Jones feel the OCPD officer was sent to quote babysit them to maintain an everpresent watchful eye. When he showed up, Jones said, "I looked at him and said, "This is not a friend of Terry's. He was never at the house. I never met him before." Ramsay, who told People magazine that Yankee was his dear friend, also told the press that he was Terry's partner. "That was a lie," declared Jones. Rivera concurred.
"Terry's wife said that not only was Ramsay never Yikkey's partner, but that the two men didn't even get along." "Terry hated Jim Ramsay," said Rivera. "He put on a real good performance," she added. He's hiding something, I believe, and it burns me up. For his performance, Ramsay was promoted to detective and made officer of the year.
If Terrence Yi did have many friends in the police department, they were among the B patrolman, not the upper echelon. While Detective Molick said everybody loved Terry, according to Rivera, the brass hated his guts. Him and Major Upchurch had a hate hate relationship, she said.
For his part, Molick claims he was totally unaware of any problems Yiki was having in regards to what he knew about the bombing. quote, "It is my opinion as a 14-year homicide veteran that it was," said Molenex. "If we thought it was anything other than a we would have pursued it to the end of the earth. We're not hiding anything. And I do believe it's worth going over the alternate line of events that this article offers and that we really lead up to with everything we've discussed today. And it goes as follows. According to Rivera, three government sources, including a US attorney and a US
marshal, hold a slightly different view of what happened. As relayed by Rivera, the events on the morning of Officer Ykei's death, transpired as follows. At 9:00 a.m., Officer Ykei was seen exiting his Oklahoma City apartment with nine boxes of videos and files. He then drove to the police station where he had a fight with his supervisors.
He was told to drop it or he'd wind up dead. Yiki was also due for a meeting with the heads of several federal agencies that morning. He apparently decided to skip the meeting, instead driving straight to a storage locker he maintained in King Fischer. What he didn't realize was that the FBI had him under surveillance and began pursuit.
The six-year OCPD veteran and former sheriff's deputy easily eluded his pursuers. Once at his storage facility, he secured his files. What were in the files? According to one of Rivera's sources, incriminating photos and videos of the bombed out building, perhaps more. On the way back, the feds caught up with him just outside of Elino. He had nothing on him.
At that point, said Rivera, just copies of copies. While it is not known exactly what transpired next, Rivera's confidential source described in intimate detail, she says the state of the dead man's car. The seats had been completely unbolted, the floorboards ripped up, and the side panels removed. All in an apparent effort to find the incriminating documents.
There were also burn marks on the floor. Apparently, the killers had used Ykei's car to destroy what little evidence they had discovered. exactly what happened after Yiki was stopped and in what order only his potential murderers know for sure. I think that is the most compelling story there is.
And it does give me some solace and a little bit of joy to know that those files that he locked up, I'm guessing he had several copies of them. And whatever the police found at the storage unit, if they got in there, the feds, that might mean that it wasn't everything they were looking for. And that might mean that the copy that we are seeking of Yankees is still out there somewhere.
And I compel you, if you have said document, please send it to me. Please make it available. The family deserves to know, and we all deserve to know at this point what Yi knew that was worth taking his life for because obviously it was something beyond what we can even guess at considering the incredibly awful end that he met. His family deserves to know why he was executed and those involved deserve the harshest punishment.
I know they'll get it in the next life to come, but they deserve it in this one as well. And so, I've decided to make a series of calls to the people referenced in this specific document and in this investigation. Most of them have been unsuccessful, but let's see what else we can get up to. And thank you again, David Hoffman, for your work in 1997.
It has proven to be a shining light for the historical record on the case of Terrence Yiki. May God rest his soul. [Music] Hey, Stephen. How are you? This is Terrence calling about um what happened to me and wondering if you have any information. Um make sure to let me know and get back to me.
That is Terrence Ykei and I very much look forward to hearing from you. I know what you did. Bye-bye. Now, you're probably wondering why you're hearing from me right now because aren't we supposed to be calling spooks? Well, yes, and in fact, I did.
I spent quite a while doing it and called everybody referenced in that article that we've been reading from, as well as a bunch of other people. And as it would turn out, not only did none of them pick up, most of them did not even have active phone numbers, and those who did were almost all landlines, which is really suspicious.
Uh, and one family in particular of let's just say it was one of the major players in the cover up of Terrence Yiki. The entire family only had landlines or no phone data. Don't know what that means. Maybe they're in witness protection of some kind. Um, or I don't know. Or it's another sign of guilt and this guy knows what he did. Either way, I did leave one voice message.
Um, but I'm very curious to see what happens with that because I doubt I'll get a response. But hey, who knows? Maybe someone really wants to fess up and and just in case you are one of those people watching, if you do want to fess up, my email is in the bio of my YouTube channel and it is u in the description beneath this video.
I'm we deserve to know more about Yankee and more importantly his family does. So if you have anything, no matter how big or small, for sure let me know because the truth needs to be out there. I also learned, fun fact, wanted to update you guys on this, that in 2021, Wikipedia, you know, the CIA adjacent website edited the um description of Terrence and what happened to him.
And it was originally a little bit more detailed and included the alternate theory. Um, not the alternate theory, what actually happened. And then in 2021, they took that away. You can actually look it up on the way back machine. I'm showing it to you right now, but pretty ridiculous. I The world we live in is insane.
And to Terence Yaki's family, I have mad I have mad respect for the fact that you haven't given up the fight. You're not the only ones out there. We do see how evil this is and one day it's going to get better. Um, and I'm sorry for everything you've been through. Um, this was a brutal story to go through and um, I appreciate you guys sticking sticking through it with me.
That being said, thank you guys so much for watching and I can't wait to see each and every one of you in the next one. Heat. Heat. N. [Music]
