Two weeks after Joel Hinrichs blew himself up outside the packed University of Oklahoma football stadium, we finally learn there was a suicide note. Or rather, a suicide sentence reportedly discovered on Hinrichs’ computer screen by investigators. The Sunday Daily Oklahoman (via NewsOK.com ) has the details:

The University of Oklahoma student who died in an explosion Oct. 1 left a message on his computer that he was going to quit living, his father said.

The FBI read the message to the father Friday, after he came to Oklahoma to clear out his son’s university-owned apartment.

Joel “Joe” Henry Hinrichs III, an engineering student, died when his bomb went off about 100 yards from the packed football stadium during the second quarter of OU’s night game against Kansas State.

Hinrichs, 21, was from Colorado Springs, Colo. He had a reputation as a loner and had struggled at times with his grades. His parents had begun divorce proceedings.

Joel Hinrichs Jr. said he understood investigators found the message on the computer screen when they arrived at the apartment.

“It was a single line of text on his computer,” said the father, who lives in Colorado Springs. “The cursor was still blinking at the end.”

Mark Tapscott notes that if the suicide sentence is the end of the story, “then we can expect to see the FBI and Joint Task Force on Terrorism leaving the case and the U.S. Department of Justice asking the federal court to unseal the search warrant authorities used to begin the investigation of Joel Henry Hinrichs Oct. 1 death.” Tapscott has many questions, including this one:

If Hinrichs was a lone suicide and not a terrorist-related case, what is in the search warrant that cannot be disclosed to the public and the media?

Jason Smith has more questions about discrepancies and points back to a KOCO 5 story from a few days after the incident in which Hinrichs’ father told the local media there was no suicide note.

We’ll continue to keep an eye on things. And I’ll have more tomorrow on blogs vs. MSM coverage of the incident.

Meantime, there are two good reads on the WSJ’s superficial article last week. See John Hinderaker at Power Line:

The Journal Punts.

And see The Jawa Report:

Debunking the WSJ/CBS Debunking of the Oklahoma Bombing.

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