Eric Robert Rudolph
| Eric Rudolph | |
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| FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive | |
| Alias | Bob Randolph, Robert Randolph, Bobby Rudolph, Olympic Park Bomber, Eric Rudolph, Eric R. Rudolph, Jerry Wilson |
| Description | |
| Born |
Eric Robert Rudolph September 19, 1966 Merritt Island, Florida, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Carpenter, roofer and handyman |
| Parents | Robert Rudolph Patricia Murphy |
| Siblings | Daniel Rudolph |
| Status | |
| Convictions | Maliciously damaged, by means of explosive device, buildings and property affecting interstate commerce which resulted in death and injury. |
| Penalty | Life imprisonment without parole |
| Added | May 5, 1998 |
| Caught | May 31, 2003 |
| Number | 454 |
| Captured | |
Eric Robert Rudolph (born September 19, 1966), also known as the Olympic Park Bomber, is an American domestic terrorist convicted for a series of anti-abortion and anti-gay-motivated bombings across the southern United States between 1996 and 1998, which killed two people and injured over 120 others.
Described by US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales as a terrorist, he spent five years on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list until he was caught in 2003. In 2005, as part of a plea bargain, Rudolph pleaded guilty to numerous federal and state homicide charges and accepted four consecutive life sentences in exchange for avoiding a trial and a potential death sentence. He remains incarcerated at the ADX Florence Supermax prison near Florence, Colorado.
Rudolph was born in Merritt Island, Florida. After his father, Robert, died in 1981, he moved with his mother and siblings to Nantahala, Macon County, in western North Carolina. He attended ninth grade at the Nantahala School but dropped out after that year and worked as a carpenter with his older brother Daniel. When Rudolph was 18, he spent time with his mother at a Christian Identity compound in Missouri known as the Church of Israel.
After Rudolph received his GED, he enlisted in the U.S. Army, undergoing basic training at Fort Benning in Georgia. He was discharged in January 1989, while serving with the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell in Kentucky, due to marijuana use. In 1988, the year before his discharge, Rudolph had attended the Air Assault School at Fort Campbell. He attained the rank of specialist/E-4.
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