Mitchell OakesFour days before she found a pipe bomb in her car, Mitchell Oakes’ estranged wife got a cellphone message of just two words: “Die, – – .”
The Pikeville resident, referred to as “AO” in federal court papers, told ATF Special Agent Nerissa Dixon the caller ID was blocked but she recognized the voice as her husband’s.
And GPS tracking put that same cellphone in the parking lot of a Franklin, Tenn., nursing home at the time the bomb was being planted in AO’s Ford Escape. Oakes now faces federal charges that he made and planted the bomb, and for being a felon in possession of an explosive device.
Those are separate from his state charge of trying to murder his wife.
Dixon’s affidavit of probable cause on the federal charges outlines the attempted bombing and Oakes’ violent criminal history.