Michael William Brescia Michael William Brescia Michael William Brescia is a convicted bank robber who has also been alleged to have been involved in the Oklahoma City bombing. Born to a firefighter father and accountant mother in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Brescia was both a member of the Aryan Republican Army and a part-time student at La Salle University, at the time of his arrest. He was also an army buddy of Timothy McVeigh and one-time resident of Elohim City. Michael William Brescia was recruited for the Aryan Republican Army by Aryan Nations Pennsylvania state leader, Mark W. Thomas. Private lawsuits by Edye Smith and
Timothy McVeigh child who withdrew as an adolescent. McVeigh is said to have had only one girlfriend during his adolescence; he later stated to journalists that he did not have any idea how to impress girls. While in high school, McVeigh became interested in computers and hacked into government computer systems on his Commodore 64 under the handle "The Wanderer", borrowed from the song by Dion DiMucci. In his senior year, McVeigh was named Starpoint Central High School's "most promising computer programmer," but he maintained relatively poor grades until his 1986 graduation. McVeigh was introduced to firearms by his grandfather. He told