Fugitive Indicted in Bombings at Clinic, Olympics
Serial bombing suspect Eric Robert Rudolph was indicted Wednesday, nearly three years after he vanished in the North Carolina mountains, for deadly bombings beginning with the blast at the 1996 Olympics.
The federal indictments formalize charges filed previously against Rudolph for the death of a policeman at an abortion clinic in Birmingham and for three Atlanta bombings, including the explosion that killed a woman at Centennial Olympic Park.
“Now that he has been indicted, when Rudolph is arrested he will proceed immediately to trial,” U.S. Atty. Doug Jones said after charges were returned by grand juries in Birmingham and Atlanta.
Rudolph, 34, has been sought since the Birmingham bombing on Jan. 29, 1998, and is on the FBI’s 10 most wanted list. The last confirmed sighting was in July 1998, when Rudolph reportedly visited the North Carolina home of a store owner to stock up on provisions.
A $1-million reward is still being offered for information leading to his arrest and conviction.
The explosion at New Woman All Women Health Care killed Robert Sanderson, a police officer working off duty at the clinic. Eighteen months earlier, the Olympics bomb killed Alice Hawthorne of Albany, Ga., and injured about 100 others.
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