The Atlanta indictment also charges Rudolph with planting a bomb that exploded on Jan. The blast on July 27 killed an Albany, Ga., woman and injured her daughter and more than 100 other people. In Atlanta, he is accused of hiding a nail-laden bomb inside a backpack at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Olympic Games in that city. The fugitive, who was on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List and was the subject of a $1 million reward offer, had eluded law enforcement authorities for five years in the rugged terrain near Great Smoky Mountains National Park.įederal grand juries in Atlanta and Birmingham have indicted Rudolph in connection with four bombings, two of them fatal. history, was arrested early Saturday while he was apparently rummaging for food behind a supermarket in the mountain hamlet of Murphy, N.C. Rudolph, 36, the subject of one of the most intense manhunts in U.S.
The Justice Department last considered the question during the Clinton administration, when officials decided that Rudolph should be tried first in Birmingham in connection with a bombing that killed an off-duty police officer and severely injured a nurse at an abortion clinic. Justice Department officials said they expected Ashcroft to decide whether Rudolph will be tried in Atlanta or Birmingham before a hearing that is scheduled this morning in front of a U.S. attorneys in Atlanta and Birmingham as the Justice Department considered its next step in prosecuting Eric Robert Rudolph, the fugitive who has been accused of planting deadly bombs in both cities. Ashcroft conferred yesterday with the U.S.