How Luck Ran Out For A Most Wanted Fugitive

An arduous manhunt ends as authorities arrest the alleged Olympics bomber

Eric Rudolph liked to think of himself as a great survivalist. And for more than five years, he managed to outfox a $24 million manhunt that included a $1 million bounty. The only alleged domestic terrorist on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitive list, Rudolph was a suspect in the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta and bombings at a gay nightclub and an office complex that housed an abortion clinic, both in Atlanta, and at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala. His skills failed him early Saturday as police in the tiny mountain town of Murphy, N.C., got their...

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