1996 Olympic bomber caught

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FBI: Olympic bombing suspect arrested

Victim: 'That's the ultimate goal, to see him in court'

From Henry Schuster

CNN

Saturday, May 31, 2003 Posted: 10:45 AM EDT (1445 GMT)

 

Eric Robert Rudolph

 

(CNN) -- Eric Robert Rudolph -- the man charged with the 1996 Olympics bombing, as well as the bombings of a gay nightclub and two women's clinics that performed abortions – has been captured, an FBI source told CNN. Two people were killed and many were injured in the attacks.

 

A sheriff's deputy in Murphy, North Carolina, arrested a man believed to be Rudolph early Saturday morning without a struggle after he was found behind a business, Cherokee County Sheriff Keith Lovin told CNN.

 

The man appeared to be homeless, Lovin said.

 

Authorities have not officially announced a match on fingerprints, but a source within the FBI said it was him.

 

FBI Special Agent in Charge Erik Blowers in Charlotte told CNN that a news conference would be held between 1 and 1:30 p.m. EDT in Cherokee County.

 

Rudolph, now 36, has eluded law officers for years, despite a massive search in the North Carolina mountains that involved hundreds of law enforcement officers and reportedly cost millions of dollars.

 

He was last seen in July 1998, when he tried to buy food and other supplies from health food store owner George Nordmann. Nordmann told authorities that he decided not to help Rudolph. Two days later, Nordmann said he came home and found that 75 pounds of food and his truck were missing. Five $100 bills were on his table.

 

Rudolph was first listed on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted List" in 1998 when his pick-up truck was found abandoned near the scene of the January 29 bombing of a Birmingham, Alabama, women's clinic that performed abortions.

 

The blast killed off-duty Birmingham police officer Robert Sanderson, who was working as a security guard at the clinic, and seriously injured nurse Emily Lyons, who was on her way in to work. (Timeline: Events in Rudolph's life)

 

Lyons told CNN Saturday that she always believed that Rudolph was still alive and hiding in North Carolina, and that she was hopeful that "this was the real thing, this time."

 

She said she hoped to see Rudolph in court and find out what motivated him.

 

"That's the ultimate goal, to see him in court, possibly to talk to him and to see the final justice done," Lyons said.

 

Rudolph also was wanted in connection with the July 1996 bombing at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta in which an Albany, Georgia, woman was killed and more than 100 people were hurt. (1997 Special Report: The Olympic Park bombing)

 

He was also being sought for the double bombing outside a suburban Atlanta women's clinic in January 1997 and another at an Atlanta gay nightclub in February 1997. There were several injuries in the incidents, but no one was killed.

 

Federal investigators have long believed Rudolph was hiding in the Nantahala National Forest of western North Carolina, where he had spent his teenage and young adult years.

 

The Southeast Bomb Task Force -- formed to investigate the bombings -- kept a presence in the area, at times with as many as 200 federal agents combing a 500,000 acre mountainous and heavily-wooded area.

[Guest Eagan469]

hooray! - fry his ass

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Bout time

[Guest RepoMan]

Did Richard Jewel ever get an apology?

[Guest Vern Gagne]

The FBI really did a great job on this case.

[Rob E Dangerously 0]

[/sarcasm]???

 

It's nice to see that Eric Bischoff is now off the streets and in jail.

[Guest Choken One]

The FBI really did a great job on this case.

That was a good one...

 

 

Funny...