Eric Rudolph

Quick Facts

Full Name	Eric Rudolph
Occupation	Criminal
Date Of Birth	Sep 19, 1966(1966-09-19)
Age	58
Birthplace	Merritt Island
Country	United States
Birth City	Florida
Horoscope	Virgo

Eric Rudolph Biography

Eric Rudolph is one of the most popular and richest Criminal who was born on September 19, 1966 in Merritt Island, Florida, United States. Eric Robert Rudolph (born September 19th 1996) is often referred to by the name of Olympic Park Bomber, is an American terrorist who was convicted of an assortment of anti-abortion as well as anti-gay-motivated attacks across south United States between 1996 and 1998. Three people and injured more than 150. Rudolph was listed for five years being on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list before being arrested in 2003. In 2005 as part of the plea bargain in which he admitted guilt to a variety of federal and state murder charges. He was also sentenced to four life sentences consecutively in exchange for not having to go through an indictment and possibly a death sentence. He remains in the ADX Florence Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado.

At the age of 29 years old, Rudolph was the one who was responsible for his involvement in the Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta the city of Atlanta the 27th of July, 1996 in the 1996 Summer Olympics. Rudolph made two calls to 911 anonymously to warn about the explosive before it went off. The explosion killed a spectator Alice Hawthorne and wounded 111 others. Melih Uzunyol, a Turkish cameraman who rushed to the scene of the explosion, died from heart attacks.

Rudolph’s family supported him and believed he was innocent of all charges. They were questioned and placed under surveillance. On March 7, 1998, Rudolph’s older brother, Daniel, videotaped himself cutting off his left hand with a radial arm saw in order to, in his words, “send a message to the FBI and the media.” The hand was successfully reattached by surgeons. According to Rudolph’s own writings, he survived during his years as a fugitive by camping in the Nantahala National Forest near Cherokee and Graham Counties, in North Carolina, by gathering acorns and salamanders, pilfering vegetables from gardens, stealing grain from a grain silo, and raiding dumpsters in Murphy, North Carolina.

On May 5, 1998, he became the 454th fugitive listed by the FBI on the Ten Most Wanted list. The FBI considered him to be armed and extremely dangerous, and offered a $1 million reward for information leading directly to his arrest. He spent more than five years in the Appalachian wilderness as a fugitive, during which time federal and amateur search teams scoured the area without success.

At the end of summer 1996 the entire world came to Atlanta to host an Olympic Games. The games were held under the supervision and guidance of the administration in Washington thousands of people gathered to be a part of the global ideals of socialism. Multinational corporations have spent billions of dollars and Washington created an army of security personnel to defend these most important of games. Despite the fact that the goal of the Olympic movements is spread values of global socialism as depicted by the tune “Imagine” by John Lennon that was the theme for the 1996 Games, even though the goal to an Olympics is to spread these ideals, the goal of the terrorist attack on July 27, 1996 was to astonish and humiliate the Washington government before the world over its inexplicably acceptance of abortions at any time. The idea was to make it impossible to cancel the Olympics, or at the very least, create a sense of security so that the streets surrounding the venues and consequently take away the enormous amount of money committed to the games.

Eric Rudolph Net Worth

Eric Rudolph is one of the richest Criminal from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Eric Rudolph 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Rudolph was born on Merritt Island, Florida. Following the death of his father Robert passed away in 1981, he relocated with his parents and siblings into Nantahala, Macon County, located in the western part of North Carolina. He attended the ninth grade of Nantahala School. Nantahala School but dropped out following that year. He then worked as a carpenter along with his brother Daniel. At the age of Rudolph was 18 years old, He spent time with his mother in an Christian Identity property located in Missouri that was referred to as The Church of Israel.

When Rudolph obtained his GED He enlisted in the U.S. Army, undergoing basic training at Fort Benning in Georgia. The Army discharged him in the month of January in 1989 as a member of the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell in Kentucky because of marijuana usage. In 1988, just prior to his discharge Rudolph was a student at his first Air Assault School at Fort Campbell. He was promoted to Specialist/E-4.

Rudolph has also confessed to three other bombings: the bombing of an abortion clinic in the Atlanta suburb of Sandy Springs on January 16, 1997; the bombing of the Otherside Lounge of Atlanta, a lesbian bar, on February 21, 1997, injuring five; and the bombing of an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama on January 29, 1998, killing Birmingham police officer Robert Sanderson who was working off-duty in uniform, and critically injuring nurse Emily Lyons. Rudolph’s bombs contained nails which acted as shrapnel.

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Rudolph released a statement explaining his actions; he rationalized the bombings as serving the cause of anti-abortion and anti-gay terrorism. In his statement, he claimed that he had “deprived the government of its goal of sentencing me to death,” and that “the fact that I have entered an agreement with the government is purely a tactical choice on my part and in no way legitimates the moral authority of the government to judge this matter or impute my guilt.” The terms of the plea agreement were that Rudolph would be sentenced to four consecutive life terms. He was sentenced July 18, 2005, to two consecutive life terms without parole for the 1998 murder of a police officer. He was sentenced for his bombings in Atlanta on August 22, 2005, receiving two consecutive life terms. That same day, Rudolph was sent to the ADX Florence Supermax federal prison. Like other Supermax inmates, he spends 22½ hours per day alone in his 80 square foot (7.4 m) concrete cell.

Facts & Trivia

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Rudolph’s motive for the bombing, according to his April 13, 2005 statement, was political:

How long was Eric Rudolph in the woods?

He spent more than five years in the Appalachian wilderness as a fugitive, during which time federal and amateur search teams scoured the area without success.

Who was the cop that caught Eric Rudolph?

Jeffrey Postell , the police officer who apprehended terrorist and serial bomber Eric Rudolph, a.k.a The Olympic Park Bomber. Postell, who was a rookie cop working the night shift in May 2003, told Larkin and Doss about how he was able to put an end to the manhunt that lasted several years.

How did they find Eric Rudolph?

On May 31, 2003, Rudolph was arrested by police officer J.S. Postell while rummaging through a trash bin behind a rural grocery store in Murphy, North Carolina. Rudolph pleaded guilty to federal charges stemming from the four bombings.

How long did it take the FBI to find Eric Rudolph?

Then, on May 31, 2003, after over five years as a fugitive, Rudolph was arrested by a rookie police officer who found him digging through a grocery store dumpster in Murphy, North Carolina.

What was Richard Jewell's settlement?

In December 1996, NBC negotiated a settlement with Jewell for a reported $500,000. CNN and ABC settled, too, as did Piedmont College, which Jewell had sued for allegedly supplying false information.