"Cherokee County Sheriff Keith Lovin confirmed a deputy arrested a man believed to Rudolph without a struggle after he was found behind a business in the western North Carolina town of Murphy. The sheriff said the man appeared to be homeless.
Deputies are waiting for fingerprint information for a positive confirmation of the man's identity. FBI agents are on their way to the scene.
Rudolph, now 36, has eluded law officers for years. He was first listed on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted List" when his pick-up truck was found abandoned near the scene of the bombing of a Birmingham, Alabama, women's clinic on January 29, 1998. A police officer was killed and a nurse was seriously injured in that blast.
Rudolph also was wanted in connection with the July 1996 bombing at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta. An Albany, Georgia, woman was killed and more than 100 people were hurt.
He was also being sought for the double bombing outside a suburban Atlanta women's clinic in January 1997 and another at a 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 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."