It took the FBI 5 years to catch Eric Rudolph. And they got lucky.
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Took the FBI 2 decades to find Whitey Bulger, and he was at one time their informant!
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Rudolph was arrested in Murphy, North Carolina, on May 31, 2003, by rookie police officer Jeffrey Scott Postell of the Murphy Police Department behind a Save-A-Lot store at about 4 a.m.; Postell, on routine patrol, had originally suspected a burglary in progress.