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  Eric Robert Rudolph - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eric Robert Rudolph, also known as the Olympic Bomber (born September 19, 1966) is an extreme right-wing American terrorist who committed a series of bombings across the southern United States, resulting in the deaths of three people and injuries to at least 150 others.
Rudolph was first identified as a suspect in the Alabama bombing by the Department of Justice on February 14, 1998.
Rudolph is expected to be sent to the ADX Florence supermax federal prison, which is already the home of Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber), Terry Nichols (Oklahoma City bombing), and Ramzi Yousef (1993 World Trade Center bombing).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eric_Robert_Rudolph   (1185 words)

  
 Eric Robert Rudolph - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Eric Robert Rudolph (born September 19, 1966) is a suspect in the July 27, 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, which killed Alice Hawthorne and wounded 111 others.
Rudolph is said to be a follower of the Christian Identity sect of Christianity.
On March 7, 1998, Daniel Rudolph, Eric's older brother, videotaped himself cutting off one of his own hands with an electric saw in order to "send a message to the FBI and the media." The hand was successfully reattached.
open-encyclopedia.com /Eric_Rudolph   (631 words)

  
 Eric Robert Rudolph -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Rudolph was born on September 19, 1966, in (Click link for more info and facts about Merritt Island) Merritt Island, (A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War) Florida.
Rudolph's bombs were made of (An explosive containing nitrate sensitized with nitroglycerin absorbed on wood pulp) dynamite surrounded by nails which acted as (Shell containing lead pellets that explodes in flight) shrapnel, increasing the destructive power of the bombs.
Rudolph was first identified as a suspect in the Alabama bombing by the (The United States federal department responsible for enforcing federal laws (including the enforcement of all civil rights legislation); created in 1870) Department of Justice on February 14, 1998.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/er/eric_robert_rudolph.htm   (1229 words)

  
 Eric Rudolph
Rudolph allegedly took up the beliefs of Christian Identity, an extremist sect whose primary belief is that white people are God's chosen people, and everyone else is doomed to an eternity in Hell.
Rudolph is accused of bombing a park adjacent to the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, using an massive and elaborate pipe bomb loaded with nails and screws for extra killing power, an M.O. that was repeated in most of the cases now connected to Rudolph.
Ironically, Rudolph was finally identified as a suspect by one of his few "on the grid" indulgences, when a witness to the 1998 bombing saw him flee the scene and noted his truck's license plate number.
www.rotten.com /library/bio/crime/terrorists/eric-rudolph   (1280 words)

  
 Backgrounder: Eric Robert Rudolph
Eric Robert Rudolph, the nation's most wanted domestic terrorist, was captured on May 31, 2003 in Murphy, North Carolina, after being a fugitive from justice for nearly five years.
While Rudolph frequently espoused these views, he never officially joined the ranks of the hate groups he followed, and is believed to have acted alone in the bombings he is accused of committing.
Rudolph was not known to be a regular at extremist protests and rallies, nor did he create Web pages to espouse his views.
www.adl.org /extremism/rudolph_backgrounder.asp   (1099 words)

  
 The Capture of Eric Rudolph - from The Covenant News
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.
Rudolph, wearing a red jail shirt and pants with his feet shackled but his hands free, pleaded innocent before federal Magistrate Judge Michael Putnam for the 1998 bombing of New Woman All Women Health Care, where an off-duty police officer was killed and a clinic nurse critically injured.
The fact that Rudolph didn't respond to the lawsuit does not mean he admitted guilt in the clinic bombing, said Richard Jaffe, Rudolph's attorney in the criminal case.
www.covenantnews.com /eric/rudolph/eric04.htm   (1862 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation -- Authorities arrest Olympic Park bombing suspect Eric Rudolph in western N.C.
MURPHY, N.C. – Eric Rudolph, the longtime fugitive charged in the 1996 Olympic Park bombing and in attacks at an abortion clinic and a gay nightclub, was arrested early Saturday in the mountains of North Carolina, the Justice Department said.
Eric Rudolph, the longtime fugitive charged in the 1996 Olympic Park bombing and in attacks at an abortion clinic and a gay nightclub, was arrested early Saturday in the mountains of North Carolina, the Justice Department said.
Rudolph was captured after police in western North Carolina spotted a man digging in a trash bin in the small town of Murphy at about 4:30 a.m., said FBI Special Agent John Iannarelli.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/nation/20030531-0904-ericrudolph.html   (1315 words)

  
 CNN.com - FBI: Olympic bombing suspect arrested - May. 31, 2003
Rudolph was arrested by a Murphy policeman, who stopped the fugitive at gunpoint behind a supermarket, Mayor Bill Hughes told CNN.
Rudolph faces federal charges in a 23-count indictment in connection with the 1996 bombing of Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park, as well as explosions the following year at a downtown gay nightclub and a suburban Atlanta clinic that performed abortions.
Rudolph is believed to have written letters received by the media after the bombings.
www.cnn.com /2003/US/05/31/rudolph.arrest   (1285 words)

  
 WTVY | Eric Robert Rudolph
Rudolph is charged with the Olympic bombing as well as the bombing that killed a police officer and critically injured a nurse at a women's clinic in Birmingham.
Rudolph has pleaded innocent to federal charges he bombed the Birmingham abortion clinic and he is accused of a fatal bombing at the 1996 Olympics and a pair of bombings in Atlanta in 1997.
Rudolph, a former soldier and survivalist, is jailed in Birmingham, Alabama.
www.wtvynews4.com /unclassified/364771.html   (6055 words)

  
 Eric Rudolph's ideas, hidden in plain sight
Eric Rudolph's group of co-conspirators seems, in retrospect, to have been a vast, interlocking network of trees.
Yet Rudolph's surprisingly lonely flight suggests that groups once able to march in Aryan lockstep through such American cities as Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, or close down Pittsburgh for a raucous Saturday afternoon of Klan and neo-Nazi pageantry are now shadows with nothing solid blocking the light.
Eric Rudolph was a loner because his worldviews have found less troublesome messengers.
www.post-gazette.com /columnists/20030608edroddy08p1.asp   (893 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Is Terrorism Tied To Christian Sect?
Not only in Rudolph's case, but also in the case of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy J. McVeigh and Muslim suicide bombers, "there's always the question of what comes first, is it the religious belief or the violent personality?" Aho said.
Rudolph, 36, appears to have found his religious home during his impoverished family's wanderings in his fatherless teenage years.
If Eric Rudolph had listened to his lessons here, he would have learned that acts of violence were absolutely and completely out of order and something this church would never have condoned," Gayman said.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A1196-2003Jun1?language=printer   (989 words)

  
 CNN.com - Atlanta Olympic bombing suspect arrested - May. 31, 2003
Rudolph has been charged in the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia; 1997 bombings at a gay nightclub and a clinic that performed abortions in the Atlanta area; and a bombing at a clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1998.
Rudolph disappeared after his pickup truck -- first spotted near the scene of the Birmingham attack on January 29, 1998 -- was found abandoned in the North Carolina woods not far from where he was captured Saturday.
Rudolph is also wanted in connection with the bombing at Centennial Olympic Park in July 1996 in Atlanta, which killed Alice Hawthorne, a 44-year-old Albany, Georgia, woman, and injured more than 100 people.
www.cnn.com /2003/US/05/31/rudolph.main   (1135 words)

  
 Eric Rudolph - bomber of the Atlanta Olympic Park - The Crime library
Eric Robert Rudolph is a white male born on September 19, 1966 in Merritt Island, Florida.
Rudolph is known to be solitary so it is doubtful that a group assisted him in either the bombings themselves or his life on the lam.
In the bombs planted at the Sandy Springs abortion clinic, Rudolph was indicted on two counts of malicious use of explosive, two counts of using a destructive device during a crime of violence and one count of interstate transportation of explosives.
www.crimelibrary.com /terrorists_spies/terrorists/eric_rudolph/6.html   (1527 words)

  
 washingtonPost.com: Eric Rudolph
Rudolph rented a video in nearby Murphy that night, bought a large cache of food and supplies and vanished.
Rudolph quickly became the prime suspect when nails and other evidence were found in his home, pickup truck and a rented mini-warehouse.
Rudolph was placed on the FBI's 10 most wanted list and a reward of $1 million was posted for information leading directly to his arrest.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/national/longterm/rudolph/rudolph.htm   (759 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Americas | Olympic bomb suspect arrested
Eric Rudolph, who is one of America's 10 most wanted fugitives, was apprehended by a local police officer in North Carolina in the early hours of Saturday morning while apparently digging through rubbish bins for food.
Mr Rudolph was arrested in the small North Carolina town of Murphy after sheriff's deputies spotted him acting suspiciously by a supermarket, an FBI official said, adding that he appeared to be homeless.
Mr Rudolph is suspected of hiding a device in a knapsack which he then placed among the crowds at the Centennial Olympic Park on 27 July, 1996.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/2952754.stm   (465 words)

  
 Berkley Publishing :: New Book Provokes Response From Convicted Bomber Eric Rudolph
Rudolph had anything to do with the Atlanta bombings until she read Hunting Eric Rudolph.
Hunting Eric Rudolph tells the compelling story of Rudolph's background as a Christian Identifier and his strong anti-abortion, anti-gay, and anti-government sentiments (which resulted in the bombing of two abortion clinics, a gay nightclub, and the bombing at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta).
Hunting Eric Rudolph is the gripping story of one of the most dangerous homegrown terrorists in U.S. history who will now spend the rest of his years in prison after confessing his guilt on four deadly bombings.
sev.prnewswire.com /books/20050415/NYTH13814042005-1.html   (518 words)

  
 How did Eric Rudolph survive? | csmonitor.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Rudolph's capture by a rookie cop on Saturday, this mountain town is coming to grips with the ghost in its midst, wondering how the alleged terrorist went undetected - and whether he was helped by some of their own.
Instead, Rudolph, with his "Regular Joe" looks, crossed a few ridges from Natahala Gorge, where the FBI found his truck five years ago, and planted himself in Murphy, a community that was changing from a close-knit town of jean-factory and saw-mill workers to a bustling retirement destination for Floridians.
Rudolph was aligned with the radical Christian Identity movement, which posits that Jews and fls are "polluting" America.
www.csmonitor.com /2003/0604/p01s02-usju.html   (1320 words)

  
 UNSOLVED MYSTERIES on LIFETIME TV
A warrant was issued for the arrest of the 31-year-old Rudolph.
The last known sighting of Eric Rudolph was made by a man who had known him for years.
Eric Rudolph has not been seen since July 1998.
www.unsolved.com /0209-Rudolph.html   (743 words)

  
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In "Hunting Eric Rudolph," a book that will hit stores on March 1, Stone recalls details of those interviews and provides information that he's never revealed before.
For example, a friend of Rudolph's claims that before any of the bombings, Rudolph talked about bombs, and even drew his friend a picture.
Rudolphs descriptions were "very similar to the bombs used," Stone said.
www.11alive.com /news/news_article.aspx?storyid=59606   (465 words)

  
 WTVY | Eric Rudolph
A federal judge in Birmingham, Alabama, has refused to throw out the death penalty case against Eric Rudolph, rejecting defense claims that the serial bombing suspect should be tried under a law that does not allow capital punishment.
The defense claimed Rudolph should be tried under the 1994 Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act -- which carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment for abortion clinic attacks resulting in death.
Rudolph's lawyers did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment.
www.wtvynews4.com /home/headlines/1335442.html   (191 words)

  
 Eric Rudolph possibly captured   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Rudolph is believed to adhere to Christian Identity, a white supremacist religion that is anti-gay, anti-Semitic and anti-foreigner.
Rudolph was charged in 1998 with the Olympic bombing and three others - - at a gay nightclub in Atlanta, an office building north of Atlanta and an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala., where a police officer was killed.
North Carolina sheriff's deputies arrested Eric Rudolph, the man charged with the 1996 bomb blast in Centennial Olympic Park and in bomb attacks at a gay nightclub and an abortion clinic, the FBI confirmed Saturday morning.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/920785/posts   (2485 words)

  
 The Real Eric Rudolph Emerges
Eric Rudolph was one of this century's most elusive fugitives.
Rudolph who eluded Law Enforcement agencies throughout North Carolina and was finally captured by a rookie cop became a sort of folk hero to those in the mountains of North Carolina.
She has camped and hiked frequently in the Nantahala Forest where Eric Rudolph hid during the past five years.
www.pressbox.co.uk /Detailed/9234.html   (408 words)

  
 Eric Rudolph Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
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ERIC is moving forward with its modernization program, and has begun acquiring materials for addition to the database.
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 Salon.com News | Did Eric Rudolph try to surrender?
Eric Rudolph has been the subject of a massive manhunt and a $1 million reward since he was identified as the lone suspect in the bombing of the One Woman All Women Clinic in Birmingham, Ala., in January 1998, which killed an off-duty policeman and gravely wounded a nurse, Emily Lyons.
At about the same time last summer, Rudolph emerged from the Nantahala Forest in western North Carolina and made his only known contact with the public, approaching the home of George Nordman, a family friend and fellow traveler in anti-Semitic and white supremacist politics.
Lackey said he did, however, call his Birmingham attorney, Eric Johnston, who he says advised him not to go off to a meeting with Rudolph without alerting police first or he'd be vulnerable to arrest.
www.salon.com /news/feature/1999/04/19/buffalo   (1003 words)

  
 CITIZEN-TIMES.com: Eric Rudolph
Eric Robert Rudolph might not be a saint, said Sarah and Rodney Anderson, but he's not guilty of all those sins.
West says it won't be federal agents and their big-city credentials who flush out Rudolph, who many believe is hiding in the area's abundant forest, perhaps with help from others.
The Oct 14, 1998 warrant for the arrest of Rudolph, issued by the United States District Court in the Northern District of Georgia, outlining the charges relating to the three bombing incidents.
www.realnews247.com /rudolph_hunt_for_and_capture_of.htm   (519 words)

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