Larry L. Turner, Special Agent

 Defense Investigative Service

Turner was an Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper for nine years prior to joining the DIS in 1986.  A member of the Black Troopers Association and the Omega Psi Phi fraternity, he was a deacon in his Baptist Church and also played clarinet in the church orchestra. Turner was on his way out of town on an assignment on the morning of Wednesday, April 19, 1995, when he stopped by his office in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building shortly before the explosion.  Turner died in the bombing at 9:02 A.M.  Turner, 42, was survived by his wife of 22 years, two sons and one grandchild.

Robert Glen Westberry, Special Agent in Charge

Defense Investigative Service

Robert Westberry joined the Naval Investigative Service in 1969.  Prior to that, he served with the Daytona Beach Police and the Florida Highway Patrol.  He served a year in Vietnam for the Naval Investigative Service and then joined the Defense Department in 1972. He spent 6 years in South Carolina and 7 years in South Florida before he requested to be sent to Oklahoma City so his wife could be close to her mother who was in failing health. He served for two years as the Special Agent in Charge for the Oklahoma City office of the Defense Department’s Defense Investigative Service until his death the morning of Wednesday, April 19, 1995, when the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building occurred. He had intended to retire in two years.  He was survived by his wife Tillie, one son, two daughters and seven grandchildren.  He was preceded in death by one daughter.