1966 or 1967
Suspected Terrorist and Murderer
Wanted in connection with the 1996 bombing at the Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, and abortion clinic bombings in Atlanta as well as Birmingham, Alabama, Eric Robert Rudolph has managed to avoid capture. Authorities believe he has used his skills as a survivalist to hide out in an isolated “no-man’s land” in the rugged Appalachian Mountains in North Carolina.
In July and August 1996, the twenty-sixth Summer Olympic Games were being held in Atlanta, Georgia. Promising to break attendance records, the Games were the first to be hosted by an American city since the 1984 Summer Olympics were staged in Los Angeles, California. But on July 27, 1996—the first Saturday of the Games—something happened that would cast a shadow over the international sporting event and provide a wake-up call for the coordinators of future Olympics. At about 1:20 in the morning, a bomb exploded in Centennial Olympic Park in downtown Atlanta, killing one person and injuring more than one hundred others.
Authorities had been warned about the bomb, but with little time to act. Just twenty minutes before the explosion, a man who did not identify himself called the emergency number 911 to say “There is a bomb in Centennial Park.” With no further explanation, he added “You have thirty minutes.” The call was placed at 1:06 a.m., from a telephone a few blocks away from the park.
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