Eric Rudolph Finally Captured

I often do prospect work in the area between Asheville and Copper Hill Tenn. Murphy's on the Western edge. ive been through there many times in the last 5 years. The place is riddled with mine addits. There are thousands of old "glory holes" for gold, gems, lithium etc. I can see how hes evaded capture. Many of these mines show occupation by hunters , kids, party people and it had to probably come to him either making a mistake or just getting tired of living as a rat.

He was digging through a dumpster when two FBI men saw him. They thought at first it was a typical homeless man but they got closer until they recognized him.

Well he'll get his day in court and get his just punishment.

I remember being 1/2 asleep the day of the bombing and asking the next AM what had happened.

Please recall he also bombed an Atlanta abortion clinic where 1 person died and another was severely maimed as well as a night club frequented by gay people but I don't remember the body count, if there was one, there.

I reported the FBI got him. I heard a correction this evening. It was a local lawman caught him. I may need to be corrected, but I believe he has (allegedly) killed two.

Please have a look at this interesting chronology:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/920405.asp

Eric Rudolph Reaches Plea Deal in Bombings

Eric Rudolph
By The Associated Press
(04/08/05 - MONTGOMERY, AL) ?- Justice Department officials say Eric Rudolph agreed to plead guilty to four bombings in exchange for four consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole.
Rudolph will admit setting off a deadly bomb at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and three other blasts in a deal that allows the anti-government extremist to escape the death penalty.

Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez says the victims of Rudolph's attacks can be sure that he will spend the rest of his life in prison. Rudolph had faced a possible death sentence.

Rudolph is scheduled to admit his guilt on Wednesday, at hearings in Birmingham, Alabama and Atlanta, Georgia.

To avoid the death penalty, Rudolph had to provide information on the location of hundreds of pounds of explosives stashed away in various locations in the mountains of western North Carolina.

He was captured in 2003 in Murphy, in western North Carolina.

Rudolph sentenced to life for clinic bombing


BIRMINGHAM, Ala. ?- Eric Rudolph was sentenced to life in prison today for his role in a deadly women's clinic bombing after he angrily denounced abortion and one of his victims called him a "monster."

His diatribe ?- and the emotional statements of his victims ?- came as he was sentenced under the plea deal that spared his life. He received two life terms without parole for the 1998 bombing that killed an off-duty officer. Next month, he is to receive two more life terms for the 1996 Olympic bombing and other attacks in Atlanta.

"The full responsibility for this would have been the death sentence," Emily Lyons, the nurse maimed by his bomb, said today in court.

And Felicia Sanderson, whose husband died in the explosion, said, "I want to tell you there is no punishment in my opinion great enough for Eric Rudolph. When Eric Rudolph leaves this earth and has to face final judgment, I'm going to leave the final judgment in God's hand."

Then Rudolph, who was allowed to speak, lashed out at abortion and the women's clinic that performs them.

"What they did was participate in the murder of 50 children a week," he said. "Abortion is murder and because it is murder I believe deadly force is needed to stop it."

"Children are disposed of at will," he said in a long speech against abortion. "The state is no longer the protector of the innocents."

But Lyons, when she spoke earlier, said Rudolph was nothing but a coward.

"When it was your turn to face death you weren't so brave again," Lyons told the federal courtroom.

"You want to see a monster, all you have to do is look in the mirror," she said.

She read her statement in a strong voice and occasionally looked across the aisle at Rudolph.

"It really doesn't matter what you say because I will go back to my home and you will go back to jail. The clinics in town will still be open and abortion will still be legal," Lyons said.

Rudolph, 38, pleaded guilty in April to setting off a remote-controlled bomb that maimed Lyons and killed police officer Robert "Sande" Sanderson outside the New Woman All Women clinic on the morning of Jan. 29, 1998.

He also faces sentencing Aug. 22 in Atlanta for the 1996 Olympics bombing that killed one woman and injured more than 100, as well as 1997 bombings at an abortion clinic and gay bar in Atlanta.

Felicia Sanderson, speaking with Rudolph to her back, told the court of the devastation he caused to her family.

"My son Nick lost the only father that he ever knew. I never forget the look on my son's face when I told him Sande was gone," she said.

She said Rudolph took away a man who "touched many, many lives. ... He was always willing to help anyone out."

The clinic's director, Diane Derzis, told Rudolph, "It gives me great delight to know you are going to spend the rest of your life sitting in an 8-by-12 box."

As the hearing began, U.S. District Judge Lynwood Smith ruled that any proceeds Rudolph might receive from books or other projects must go to pay restitution to his victims.

In a statement distributed after his guilty pleas, Rudolph portrayed himself as a devout Christian and said the bombings were motivated by his hatred of abortion and a federal government that lets it continue. He called the plea bargain "purely a tactical choice on my part."

Under the plea agreement, Rudolph also disclosed hidden explosives in the mountains of western North Carolina, where he was captured in May 2003 after more than five years as a fugitive.

May the sorry bastard never know a moment's peace.

Amen, edgar.