[thinden]

....incident in which Nichols and Padilla's child died of asphyxiation ( crawled inside of a plastic bag?). I seem to remember McVeigh was under some suspicion about that, since he was around and unaccounted for.

Anyone remember anything about that?

for real? 1st I've heard of this. thanx for the insight!

[MizSterious]

I'd heard about it, gee, not sure when. Long time ago--might have been while the Denver trial was going on. Might even be in the transcripts?

[JohnBerger]

That was Marife's child, not Lana's and actually not Terry Nichols' either. In between becoming engaged to Nichols and marrying him, she became pregnant by another man. He married her and brought them both to the U.S. I think it was a boy, but I don't remember. He died under suspicious circumstances as a toddler, but no charges were ever filed.

[honway]

http://www.constitution.org/ocbpt/ocbpt_02.htm

McVeigh was painted as a sociopath when Lana Padilla, in her book, By Blood Betrayed, hinting that McVeigh may have been responsible for the death of 26-month-old Jason Torres Nichols — Terry and Marife's son — who accidentally suffocated to death in a plastic bag in November of 1993.[165] Yet Padilla included a photo in her book of McVeigh laughing and playing with the little boy. And according to Terry Nichols, McVeigh had tried to revive the infant for nearly half an hour, and had called the paramedics — a response apparently out-of-character with the actions of a deranged sociopathic killer.[166]