Eric Rudolph: The Olympic Bomber's Years on the Run

Eric Rudolph carried out the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Park bombing and a string of attacks across the American South, then vanished into the Appalachian wilderness for five years.This episode traces how extreme ideology fused with military training, and how one of the FBI's most wanted men was finally caught scavenging behind a discount grocery store.Early exposure to the Christian Identity movement in MissouriArmy airborne and air assault training put to lethal useNail-packed bombs targeting the Olympics, clinics, and a barA dense forest canopy that neutralized thermal imagingHis capture, plea deal, and stated preference for Nietzsche over the Bible