SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A member of the Salem police bomb squad has testified that the shop used by two men on trial in a Woodburn bank bombing appeared to have been cleaned up not long before it was searched.
The Salem Statesman-Journal reported Monday that Detective Curt Abel took the witness stand as one of the investigators who searched the shop area on a farm where Bruce Turnidge and his son, Joshua, operated a biodiesel business.
The Turnidges are on trial in Salem on aggravated murder and other charges. They are accused of setting a bomb at a bank in Woodburn in December, 2008, that blew up and killed two police officers and maimed a third.
Prosecutors have said police found evidence the bomb was put together in the Turnidge’s shop.
