Eric Robert Rudolph - Research Article from Outlaws, Mobsters and Crooks

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 7 pages of information about Eric Robert Rudolph.

Eric Robert Rudolph - Research Article from Outlaws, Mobsters and Crooks

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 7 pages of information about Eric Robert Rudolph.
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1966 or 1967

Suspected Terrorist and Murderer

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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.

“There is a bomb in Centennial Park”

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...

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