ERIC ROBERT RUDOLPH IS CHARGED IN CONNECTION WITH THE BOMBING OF A HEALTH CLINIC IN BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, IN WHICH A POLICE OFFICER WAS KILLED AND A NURSE CRITICALLY WOUNDED. HE IS ALSO CHARGED IN CONNECTION WITH THE FATAL BOMBINGS AT CENTENNIAL OLYMPIC PARK IN DOWNTOWN ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THE DOUBLE BOMBINGS AT THE SANDY SPRINGS PROFESSIONAL OFFICE BUILDING NORTH OF ATLANTA, AND THE DOUBLE BOMBINGS AT THE OTHERSIDE LOUNGE IN MIDTOWN ATLANTA. THESE BOMB BLASTS INJURED MORE THAN 150 PEOPLE. RUDOLPH IS KNOWN TO OWN FIREARMS AND TO HAVE TARGETED LAW ENFORCEMENT.
The FBI is offering a $1,000,000 reward for information leading directly to the arrest of Eric Robert Rudolph. May 1998 |
I'm no fan of Eric Rudolph, but after looking over the charges from this FBI announcement, there is no way in hell this ever should have been a Federal case. Except to capture a fugitive who crossed state lines, that is.
This, BTW, is precisely why so many of the citizens out there in rural North Carolina had no interest in helping out the FBI.
Both, Very Sick, sexually-frustrated Individuals who killed innocent human beings.