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Eric Robert Rudolph (born September 19, 1966), also known as the Olympic Park Bomber, is an American domestic terrorist convicted for a series of bombings across the Southern United States between 1996 and 1998, which killed two people and injured over 100 others, including the Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
Jul 27, 2021 · Eric Rudolph was finally captured on May 31, 2003 — but not by an FBI agent. Instead, it was a local rookie police officer who arrested him (not that the cop knew who he was). And it was by mere chance that 21-year-old Jeffrey Postell put an end to the manhunt.
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Between 1996 and 1998, bombs exploded four times in Atlanta and Birmingham, killing two and injuring hundreds and setting off what turned out to be a five-year manhunt for the suspected bomber...
Dec 13, 2019 · The man behind the bombing was 29-year-old Eric Rudolph, a terrorist who went on to carry out three more bombings over the next year and a half. But in order to catch him, the federal...
Eric Rudolph evaded the FBI for seven years, after planting bombs in Atlanta and Birmingham, Alabama. HowStuffWorks looks at what drove him to kill.
On July, 27, Eric Rudolph planted a bomb in Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, Georgia, where thousands had gathered to celebrate the Olympics. The resulting explosion killed one and injured over 100.
Feb 13, 2024 · A three-judge of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled that Eric Robert Rudolph remains bound to the terms of his 2005 plea agreement in which he accepted multiple life sentences to escape the death penalty.
Dec 6, 2012 · Bombing suspect Eric Robert Rudolph (C) is escorted from the Cherokee County Jail for a hearing in federal court. Erik S. Lesser/Getty Images. CNN — Here is a look at the life of convicted serial...
Dec 13, 2019 · “Richard Jewell” recounts how a security guard was wrongly accused in the deadly attack at the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta. The real culprit was Rudolph, an Army veteran and expert survivalist.
Apr 13, 2005 · As part of a plea agreement with federal prosecutors, Eric Rudolph, the man responsible for carrying out bombings against abortion clinics, a gay nightclub and Atlanta's Centennial...
