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320———Rudolph, Eric (1966– )

as a material witness, when hunters in the woods near As the investigation progressed, authorities found
Murphy, North Carolina, found Rudolph’s abandoned links between Rudolph and the Christian Identity
pickup, the investigation intensified. Shortly there- Movement—a quasi-neo-Nazi group that is both anti-
after, the FBI found in Rudolph’s storage facility in gay and antiabortion. However, investigators believe
Marble, North Carolina, a book titled How to Build Rudolph has more in common with antigovernment
Bombs of Mass Destruction terrorists such as Timothy McVeigh than to the anti-
On February 14, 1998, Rudolph was named as the abortion activists before him, such as Michael Griffin
suspect in Birmingham clinic bombing. By May, he or Paul Hill.
was on the FBI’s “10 most wanted” list. Five months
See also ANTIABORTION MOVEMENT; ARMY OF GOD;
later, Attorney General Janet Reno charged him with
CENTENNIAL PARK BOMBING; MICHAEL GRIFFIN; PAUL
all three Atlanta-area bombings. HILL; TIMOTHY MCVEIGH
By that time, Rudolph had long been hiding in the
caves and mines of the Nantahala National Forest in Further Reading
North Carolina, using survivalist skills learned in his
Baird-Windle, Patricia, and Eleanor J. Bader. Targets of
18-month stint in the U.S. Army. He was last seen in Hatred: Anti-abortion Terrorism. New York: Palgrave,
July 1998, rumored to have left $500 in exchange for 2001
a six-month supply of food and a pickup truck (later FBI major investigation Web page: Eric Robert Rudolph.
abandoned) taken from the home of his girlfriend’s http://www.fbi.gov/majcases/rudolph/rudolph1.htm.
father. Members of the Southeast Bomb Task Force— Gorney, Cynthia. Articles of Faith: A Frontline History of
a collaboration between the FBI, the Bureau of the Abortion Wars. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the Department of
Justice, and local trackers—continue to search the RUF. See REVOLUTIONARY UNITED FRONT.
Smokey Mountains for signs of Rudolph.