McVeigh didn’t have proof of insurance or a bill of sale for the car. McVeigh also wore a T-shirt with a picture of Abraham Lincoln and the words his assassin, John Wilkes Booth, shouted in Ford’s Theater: “ Sic semper tyrannis.” (“Thus always to tyrants.”) On the back was a quote from Thomas Jefferson: “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” He stopped the car and found behind the wheel a clean-cut, 26-year-old Timothy McVeigh wearing military boots and a windbreaker. Hanger was driving north on Interstate 35 when he passed a rusting, yellow 1977 Mercury Marquis with no license plate. On that cool spring morning, Hanger had been ordered to the disaster site and had driven just few miles outside Perry - a town of about 5,000 people 60 miles north of Oklahoma City - when he was told to stay in his area. I’m not a person who likes a lot of attention.” “I call the fact that I was put in the right spot at the right time divine intervention,” Hanger said last week. To hear Hanger tell his story is to recall how skilled police work, but also luck, led to the arrest of the decorated Army-veteran-turned-radical who was later convicted and executed. Around these parts, Hanger -a quiet, unassuming man who now serves as sheriff of rural Noble County -will forever be known as the Man Who Caught McVeigh.
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