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Kathy Scruggs was a journalist who reported that Richard Jewell was a suspect in the 1996 Olympics bombing. She died of a morphine overdose in 2001, after facing legal troubles and criticism for her story.
- Early Life
- Career
- Controversy Over Media Portrayals of Scruggs
- Health and Death
Scruggs was born in Athens, Georgia. Her father, who had trained as a GI reporter during World War 2, was a senior executive in the Insurance Industry. She earned a degree at Queen's College in Charlotte, North Carolina, before entering journalism herself.
Scruggs worked at two other publications before she spent most of her career at the The Atlanta Journal Constitution, on its Police beat. Scruggs and colleague Ron Martz broke the story that the FBI were investigating Jewell as a suspect in a deadly bombing at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Jewell was a security guard at an Olympic event and initial re...
In a 2013 profile of her Doug Monroe, who had been a colleague of hers, at The Atlanta Journal, described her a hard-drinking, hard-partying, risk-taking crime reporter that the Police loved.Monroe described her going to the scene of a murder, and arriving before the Police, only to ask them what had taken them so long, to arrive. In 2019 two movie...
Colleagues say questions over her role in the demonizing of Jewell troubled her in her final years. She took medical leave in 2000, and, on September 2, 2001, she passed away from an overdose, at the age of 42. Sources differ on the details of the overdose. Many say she died from an overdose of drugs she had been legally prescribed. Other sources s...
Kathy Scruggs was a hard-drinking, tough-talking police reporter who broke the story that made Richard Jewell a suspect in the 1996 Olympics bombing. She refused to reveal her source and died of a morphine overdose in 2001.
Nov 26, 2019 · Who was Atlanta reporter Kathy Scruggs and what was her role in Richard Jewell case? Local News. The Ballad of Kathy Scruggs. The AJC reporter depicted in ‘Richard Jewell’ isn’t alive to...
Dec 10, 2019 · Kathy Scruggs was a journalist who broke the story of Richard Jewell, a security guard falsely accused of the 1996 Olympics bombing. She died in 2001 and was criticized for her portrayal in the movie \"Richard Jewell\", where she was depicted as offering sex for information.
Dec 13, 2019 · Kathy Scruggs was the Atlanta journalist who broke the story of Richard Jewell as a suspect in the Olympics bombing. She died of a drug overdose in 2001, possibly related to her stress and health issues, and was buried in Athens, Georgia.
Dec 13, 2020 · Kathy Scruggs was the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper reporter whose reporting on the Atlanta Olympics bombing has been extremely controversial. It was Scruggs who first publicly...
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