[1] On December 12, 2008, a phone call to the Wells Fargo bank in Woodburn, Oregon, was answered by 22-year-old teller Karen Valadez.
[2] Woodburn Police Chief Scott Russell had one leg completely blown off by the blast and was bleeding profusely from the other when Detective Nick Wilson and Officer John Mikkola, who were both investigating at the other bank, rushed in.
The Turnidges both held numerous jobs, including owning a farm, and had decided to start a biodiesel company together, collecting cooking oil from restaurants for recycling.
Prosecutors brought forth the Turnidge's financial difficulties, anti-government beliefs, and fear that the then-new Obama administration would take away their guns.
[7] During the trial, both defendants attempted to put the majority of the blame on the other, with Bruce's attorneys stating that his lack of computer skills and physical ailments would have prevented him from carrying out a role in the plot, while Joshua testified that he didn't know why his father had taken him for a drive that day and didn't know what happened until his father told him that "no one was supposed to get hurt."
The defense also claimed the deaths would have never happened if Hakim did not set off the bomb by allegedly hitting it with a hammer and prying it open with a crowbar.
[11] On December 13, 2022, Governor Kate Brown commuted the death sentences of Bruce and Joshua Turnidge to life without parole.
[12] Police Chief Scott Russell required fifty-five plus surgeries but was able to return to work after receiving a prosthetic leg.