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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.
- May 5, 1998
- September 19, 1966 (age 57), Merritt Island, Florida, U.S.
- Bob Randolph, Robert Randolph, Bobby Rudolph
Jun 7, 2003 · Rudolph is also accused in the 1996 Olympic park bombing in Atlanta, where a woman was killed and more than 100 people were injured, and a pair of 1997 bombings in Atlanta at a gay-oriented bar ...
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Apr 13, 2005 · Eric Rudolph, who was behind a string of spectacular bombings in the south, including the Atlanta Olympics in 1996, pleaded guilty Wednesday to planting and setting all of them. NBC's Pete ...
Jul 27, 2016 · The FBI charged the real bomber, Eric Rudolph, in 1998 after linking the attack to similar ones at a gay nightclub and at abortion clinics. Rudolph fled, setting off one of the largest manhunts in ...
Jul 24, 2012 · Jul 24, 2012. The Atlanta Olympics -- the Centennial Games -- opened the night of July 19, 1996, when Janet Evans passed the torch to Muhammad Ali, who lit the cauldron in one of the most ...
• July 1996 -- At Centennial Olympic Park during the Summer Games. A woman was killed and 110 people were injured. • January 1997 -- In the Atlanta suburb of Sandy Springs, near women's clinic ...
Mar 29, 2024 · On July 27, 1996, a single homemade pipe bomb left in a knapsack exploded amid a crowd of spectators in Centennial Olympic Park, near the main sites of the Olympic Games in Atlanta. The blast caused by the crude device killed one person and injured 112 others. A photojournalist also died, of a heart attack while running to cover the event.
