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Head of Podcasting for @aldotcom. Murrow Award winning host & showrunner. Sr Producer of CNN's Downside Up. 2026 Nieman Fellow. Listen to American Shrapnel now
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American Shrapnel Part 8: The trial and fate of Olympic bomber, Eric Robert Rudolph

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By John Hammontree Verified
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John Hammontree Wed, September 3, 2025 at 11:30 AM UTC 1 min read After five years on the lam, Eric Rudolph was captured. Prosecutors in Georgia and Alabama jockeyed to have the first crack at taking him to trial, convicting him and, as they planned, sentencing him to death. It was decided that Birmingham had better evidence, and a reliable witness in Jermaine Hughes. Jurors had been assembled and questioned. But Rudolph had one bargaining chip: the location of 200 pounds of stolen dynamite.
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American Shrapnel Part 7: How a rookie cop caught the uncatchable Eric Rudolph

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By John Hammontree Verified
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American Shrapnel Part 7: How a rookie cop caught the uncatchable Eric Rudolph Original

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By John Hammontree Verified
| AL.com Verified
On May 31, 2003, 5 years 4 months and 2 days after Eric Robert Rudolph blew up the New Woman All Women clinic in Birmingham and disappeared into the North Carolina mountains, a 21-year-old rookie cop named Jeff Postell turned off the lights in his police cruiser and pulled around the corner of the Save-A-Lot grocery store in Murphy, North Carolina. He did what a lot of seasoned cops hadn’t done over the years. He followed procedure to a T, varying his routine and arriving at an unexpected time.
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