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	Profile
	Name: Eric Robert Rudolph
	Race: White
	Age Now: 42
	Height: 5'11"
	Weight: 150 lbs
	Eyes (Color and Correction): Blue
	Other Physical Characteristics: May have long hair and a scruffy beard. Appears to have lost weight.
	Wanted for : Causing the death of a person ; Jan 29, 1998 Use of an explosive device ; Jan 29, 1998

	Location(s)
	Last Seen : Unkown
	Possible Location : Humboldt, TN North Carolina Murphy, NC
	Last Known : Unkown

	Traits
	Loner type.
	Recluse who lived in a trailer in the woods in rural North Carolina.
	Woodsman.
	May be hiking the Appalachian Trail between Maine & Georgia.
	Has worked as a carpenter.
	Estranged from his family.
	Has 3 brothers, 1 sister and a mother.
	Has a reputation for anti-government viewpoint.
	Spent 18 months in the Army and has survival training.

	Case Story
	Bomber Continues His Crusade
	Even from the "Supermax," a secure federal penitentiary in Florence, Colorado, Eric Rudolph has figured out a way to taunt his victims and communicate his radical views. He is no longer using bombs. His new weapon -- the internet. Since his life sentence for the 1996 Olympic bombing in Atlanta and the 1998 blast outside a Birmingham, Alabama abortion clinic, Rudolph has had little contact with anyone outside of his prison cell and has no access to computers. However, authorities say he has the right of free speech and is allowed to mail letters. Therefore, he spends his days and nights writing lengthy essays detailing his radical views and reasoning behind the blasts. Rudolph reportedly has mailed several essays from the "Supermax" to anti-abortion activist Donald Spitz of Virginia, who posts Rudolph's writings on the Army of God website. The Army of God is the anti-abortion group Rudolph said he represented after the bombings. To understand Rudolph's essays, one must know his background. He was linked to the bomb planted outside the New Woman All Women Clinic in Birmingham after a witness got a tag number from a truck leaving the scene. His truck was later found abandoned in a pasture near Murphy, North Carolina, near the foot of the Great Smokey Mountains. Further evidence put him in the area. That blast killed Birmingham Police Officer Robert Sanderson, who was working security at the clinic. Rudolph's bomb also seriously injured nurse Emily Lyons. Later, Emily, with shrapnel scars covering her face and body, became one of Rudolph's most outspoken victims. Further investigation linked Rudolph to an internationally known bombing two years prior. Nails and plates from the Birmingham blast had similarities to the unsolved bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. That bomb, which exploded in a crowded park, killed Alice Hawthorne, who was attending the summer games, and injured hundreds of others. Charged with those two bombings, and with two other blasts in the Atlanta area, which included another abortion clinic and a gay bar, Rudolph became one of America's Most Wanted and one of the FBI's Top Ten. For five long years, Rudolph was the focus of a huge federal manhunt in the mountains neighboring his hometown of rural Murphy, North Carolina. After the lengthy search, a local beatcop in the area happened upon Rudolph rooting around a garbage bin late one night. Later, Rudolph pleaded guilty to the fatal bombings at the Olympics and in Birmingham.

	Rudolph Taunts And Taunts
	In one of Rudolph's letters later posted on the Army of God website, he explained his anti-abortion beliefs is the only reason why he did what he did. On the website, Rudolph states, "Because this governmnet is committed to maintaining the policy of abortion, and protecting it, the agents of this government are the aents of mass murder, whether knowingly or unknowingly." He went on to say, "This is the reason and the only reason for the targeting of so-called law enforcement personnel." Also, in that same essay is a statement Rudolph wrote defending his reason for accepting a plea agreement. He wrote, "After potentially facing four trials in four separate jurisdictions on circumstantial evidence that would likely lead to a conviction in at least one of these jurisdictions, I have decided to deprive the government of its goal of sentencing me to death." However, it is an essay titled "The Sentence" which has upset several of Rudolph's victims. He used pseudonyms instead of naming the victims, prosecutors and people involved in the case. Rudolph referred to nurse Emily Lyons of the Birmingham abortion clinic, as "Emily Ryan." He quotes her courtroom appearance and statement before the judge where she discusses her pain. She said, "My left eye was torn out; my right eye damaged; my ear drums ruptured, but I can still see and hear the efforts of people like you who try to control the rest of us." The nurse went on to say in court, "I have more guts in my little finger than you have in your entire body. The joint in my middle finger had to be fused. It is indeed an injury I've longed to show you." Emily raised her middle finger to Rudolph in the courtroom. In his internet statement, Rudolph mocks her, "It was a great speech and one that the denizens of freedom should be proud to enshrine in a museum somewhere. Perhaps they could put it next to MLK's 'I Have A Dream." Rudolph went on to say, "They could call it 'I have a Middle Finger." Rudolph wrote 14 pages like this full of blow by blow of what happened in the courtroom and his impressions of each and every person involved in his conviction. These taunting statements has victims' families up in arms. Emily's husband, Jeff Lyons, said, "Rudolph is still sending out harassing communication. He's still hurting us." Lyons main concern was how this website could incite more violence against abortion. Federal prosecutors say Rudolph has the right to free speech and there is nothing the prison can do to shut down the website or stop the statements from being posted onto the internet. Rudolph's case is closed as he serves out his life sentence with no chance of parole.

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