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911 Emergency.
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There is a bomb
in Centennial Park.
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You have 30 minutes.
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Are you havin' a good time?
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Oh yeah!
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This is where the party's at!
Party of the century, baby!
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Whoa.
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It's horrific. It's a very chaotic scene.
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Let's go.
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But you have to stay in the moment.
You have to do what you have to do.
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Get out!
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Get out of the area.
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Evacuate the area, please.
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Evacuate now!
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We knew we had a job to do.
The whole world was watching.
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A couple of people behind us
got hit in the head.
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A girl got hit real bad
with a piece of metal.
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There were
over 100 people injured.
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Grievously injured.
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I'm scared,
and I wanna come home.
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You had this domestic terrorist,
who was conducting bombings,
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that has no qualms about killing you.
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I was hunting a cop killer.
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That personalizes it.
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That's just a different level of evil.
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A next-level bad guy.
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This was going to be one
of the longest manhunts
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in American history.
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Let's try that. Thank you.
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Ah, you gotta get it right.
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Yeah, we're gonna be here
for a while. All right.
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Tom, take five. Marker.
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Thanks, man.
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My name is Tom Bush, and in 1996,
I was an assistant special agent
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in charge of the Atlanta field office
of the FBI.
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The special agent
in charge of the Atlanta division
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was Woody Johnson.
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My knees are a little creaky
when I'm sitting.
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Anyway, enough of that.
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In 1996, I had been
in the FBI for 27 years.
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After four years in the Marine Corps,
with a 13-month service in Vietnam.
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Serving my country
really meant something to me.
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Woody was a man of few words.
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I call him the Quiet Man.
He stayed cool and calm.
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On the outside,
it appears that way.
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On the inside, not necessarily.
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The Olympic operation was like
17 Super Bowls in consecutive days.
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- Hi!
- Hi. How are you?
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The security buildup
for the Olympics was tremendous.
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We had SWAT team, hostage rescue teams.
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It was a massive operation.
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I'd never seen anything
where there had been more planning.
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It was the largest peacetime event
in US history.
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And then to have that thing go off
was just awful.
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Just awful.
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The blast
turned the streets of Atlanta
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from a party into a disaster zone.
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As soon
as I got into the command post
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and met the police chief,
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and they say,
"It looks like terrorism to us."
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Then I'm getting information that the bomb
was placed at the bottom of the tower
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that controlled lights and camera
for the events that were on the stage.
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Just before the explosion,
at approximately 12:45,
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the security detail
found an army backpack left unattended,
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took a look inside the bag,
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and see the clock, wires,
pipe-bomb material inside the backpack.
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You need to exit the park.
There might be a secondary device here.
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When an explosive device
like that goes off, it injures many.
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And in this case, it was over 100.
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And it killed one,
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a lady named Alice Hawthorne,
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who was there
at the Olympic Park with her daughter.
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A Turkish cameraman was running toward
the scene of the explosion
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and had a heart attack
and passed away as well.
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Get on the sidewalk now!
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Thank God
for the law enforcement officers
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that moved people away.
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I think the injuries and death
would have been much larger.
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We, uh, determined
through the police department liaison
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that they had received a 911 call
at 12:58.
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There is a bomb
in Centennial Park.
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You have 30 minutes.
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But in fact, the bomb went off
20 minutes later, at approximately 1:20.
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But what if it was false information
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to lure law enforcement
closer to that device?
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There is a bomb
in Centennial Park.
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When listening to the 911 call,
it sounds like an American.
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You have 30 minutes.
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Is this a homegrown terrorist act,
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as opposed to
an international terrorist act?
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The games will go on.
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I repeat, the games will go on.
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The Olympics, and the games, carried on.
There was really no slowdown.
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Let's go.
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But there was clearly
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a heightened sense of awareness
in Atlanta.
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Explosion in the park!
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If they've had success with one bomb,
they can build another one.
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I recall several incidents
where there were abandoned packages.
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The bomb squad
was called out numerous times.
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So there's a real sense of urgency.
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The command post
is now fully operational.
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This is what the FBI does.
This is what we were trained to do.
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And you feel
if anybody's gonna resolve this,
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it's gonna be us.
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Where did the bomber come from?
We're looking in Georgia.
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Is he from Georgia?
We don't have any idea.
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When I would go into the command post,
I would go into the briefings,
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and a name
that was identified as a suspect
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was a security guard, Richard Jewell.
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He's the one
that finds the device and brings help.
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His actions led
to many people bein' saved.
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And that's how the media's looking at him.
Uh, as a... uh, the hero.
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The only thing, uh,
I wish we could have done was,
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uh, got everybody outta the area.
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Um, I feel for the victims
and... and their families,
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and I just hope
that we catch the people that did it.
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I think what went through
a lot of people's mind,
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including my own
and lot of the investigators,
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is that they immediately made a connection
to an incident
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that happened in the '84 Olympics,
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where a police officer
actually planted a bomb
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so he could report it
and make himself out to be the hero.
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If Richard Jewell is a wannabe cop,
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is this gonna enhance his standing
in the law enforcement community
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if he can be a hero
by finding this device?
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Almost simultaneously,
within the first 24 hours,
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we start getting calls
from former employers.
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And they're sayin' you ought
to take a look at this individual
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because I'm not sure
that he's as stable as it would appear.
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I'm told
that he'd been a security guard
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and overstepped his bounds,
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where the situation didn't warrant
how aggressive he was.
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Today FBI agents
went looking for him
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at his mother's house.
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Jewell strongly denied...
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So Richard Jewell
becomes the focus of the investigation.
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Can you categorically say
that you did not do this?
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- I did not do it.
- Why are they questioning you?
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Um, it's just part of the...
it's part of the, uh, process.
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When we bring him in
for an interview,
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as well as doin' searches for evidence,
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we're trying to talk to his friends,
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and we had a surveillance on him
for a while.
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But, uh, it took us
about three months of work
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to be satisfied
that he wasn't involved in it.
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We ultimately focused
on the wrong subject.
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And we took a lot of heat...
lot of heat from the media.
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Jewell recounted a tale
of being hounded by law enforcement,
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who searched his property and tapped
his phone without sufficient reason.
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And of having to wait
far too long for his name to be cleared.
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It was very painful.
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It's easy now to say you should've
done this, that, and the other thing,
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but you're not in the heat of battle.
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At that point,
we don't have a good suspect.
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People are still workin' hard.
There's no question about that.
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Because you're lookin' for that break.
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We're gonna work this,
and we're gonna ultimately find
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this person or people
that are responsible for this.
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I'm driving into work,
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and I get a call on the radio saying
there's been a bombing in Sandy Springs
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at the abortion clinic.
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I arrived on the scene
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and was told that damage had been done
to the rear of the building,
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that windows were broken out.
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There was considerable damage
inside the clinic, but no one was injured.
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When I walk into that parking lot,
it's just unbelievable to me
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that we have another bombing
in the city of Atlanta.
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You're gonna have to move down!
We have to be able to get large trucks...
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Since there was
just property damage,
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it's a pretty calm scene.
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All the media's gonna have to be
back down here.
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We're thinking about,
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could this be related in any way,
shape, or form to the Olympic bomber?
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So, I'm standing approximately...
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in this area,
talking to other investigators.
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The front of the building is taped off.
We're blocked from the video cameras.
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The, uh, media are all
back behind the tape.
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Oh my God!
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Back up! Back up!
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What was that?
What the hell was that?
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I'm immediately engulfed
in smoke and dust,
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and there's debris falling.
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Clear out! Back up!
Back out! Hey, move out!
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I literally said, "What was that?"
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And the agent standing with me said,
"That was a bomb."
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It was a very,
very, very terrifying, uh, moment
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when that... when that happened.
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Go! Go! Go!
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Back out!
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We know we have people down.
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The agent that I was talking to is down.
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Um, he's hurt.
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We've got, uh,
people out here that are hurt.
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Seeing a special agent
obviously injured, uh, was very upsetting.
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I literally keep pullin' my coat aside.
I keep looking in my coat.
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And I just keep checking to see,
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"Do I... Do I have some injuries
that I'm just not aware of?"
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Once we started looking
at the immediate scene,
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we could see
that two vehicles took the brunt.
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Had there not been these vehicles
in between us and the device,
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uh, clearly, uh,
we would have been seriously injured,
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if not killed, that morning.
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Hey, patrol. We just had
another explosion down here at the center.
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This is another explosion
at the scene.
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It certainly made it
more personal at this point.
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Even though it didn't have my name on it,
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I immediately realize that somebody
has deliberately set another device
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with a delay timer for the purpose
of killing first responders.
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You're not looking your victims
in the eye.
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I think bombers are cowards.
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I was on an adrenaline high,
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and when that adrenaline wears off,
you crash pretty good.
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I don't know how you prepare
for something like that.
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That was pretty terrifying.
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I can tell you, when I got home,
it wasn't like, "Hi, honey. I'm home."
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There was quite a reception.
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A lot of tears shed and a lot of hugging.
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And just happy...
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Happy to just be alive,
and happy to be back with my family.
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Relatively quickly, it's determined
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that the Sandy Springs device
was dynamite.
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And the Olympic bombing
were pipe bombs and black powder.
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I can't say that these bombs were related.
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We just don't have enough information
to make that leap.
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So we're gonna work 'em
as two separate bombings.
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But we want real leads,
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and it's absolutely frustrating
not to have them.
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You're constantly trying to think of ways
to further the investigation.
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There's no question.
You want to see this guy caught.
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The city of Atlanta
might have a big problem on its hands.
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Again today, there had been a bomb
planted somewhere. An explosion.
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Five weeks later, there's another bomb.
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What in the world is goin' on?
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It happened outside
a lesbian club called the Otherside.
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The bomb injured five people.
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One seriously.
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I arrive at the scene,
and one of the detectives was there,
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looking at the area
where the device went off,
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notices a backpack up on this ledge.
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Obviously very concerned
that we have a secondary device.
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We know we're dealing with
the same type of situation here
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and immediately start clearing the area
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and getting bomb squad people
to start looking into this bag.
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I'd already been blown up once.
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There's just no way that this guy's
gonna get me with this one.
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Bomb techs, they're movin' in on it
with a robot.
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They've got video camera,
and the bomb is all wrapped with wire.
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The bomb techs on scene
attempted to separate the wires
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and render the device safe.
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What we really wanted to have
was this device intact.
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If we get this device intact,
we may have fingerprints.
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We may have all kind of evidence.
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There's this very sharp bang.
255
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Even though we're across the street,
we get rocked pretty good.
256
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I was still jumpy
from that bomb in Sandy Springs.
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That takes a long time to get over.
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I could not... not jump.
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I couldn't stop myself from...
from, uh, you know, that... that reaction.
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I'm thinkin'
I got a real beef with this guy
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'cause he's tried to kill me twice.
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I start making calls to the office.
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Called Jack Daulton,
who was the inspector in charge.
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- Good morning.
- Good morning.
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- How are you?
- I'm just delightful. Thank you.
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January of 1997,
I took over the case from Woody Johnson.
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It was tough leaving at that point
because we hadn't solved that case.
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You know.
Yeah, I carried that after I left.
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I'd gotten a call
from the deputy director,
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and he'd asked me if I would go to Atlanta
as the inspector of the bombing case.
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It's the kind of case
that most agents want to work in
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or participate in their career.
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And I was not gonna turn it down.
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We had the Olympic Park bombing
and the Sandy Springs abortion bombing
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and the Otherside lounge bombing.
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These are kinds of cases that
you come across throughout your career.
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There are people who are anti-government.
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They are antiabortion.
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They are anti... uh, gay, lesbian.
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And here, we have three bombings
that basically fall into that criteria.
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My gut's telling me
it's the same person or the same group,
282
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but we really don't know.
283
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We have
all the Olympic Park evidence.
284
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The largest pipe bomb
that the FBI had ever encountered.
285
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We had two bombs
from the abortion clinic at Sandy Springs.
286
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We had two bomb remnants.
287
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The evidence
from the Otherside gay lounge.
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All these devices were dynamite-based.
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They had a clock and shrapnel.
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And, ultimately,
they were able to look at those,
291
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and one of the similarities
they found was a steel plate.
292
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So even though we had pipe bombs here
and dynamite here,
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those steel plates were the same makeup.
294
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And they were able
to make the determination then,
295
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that they were all
made by the same bomber.
296
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We still weren't sure
whether it was an individual or group.
297
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Now, at that time,
we were starting to use a psychologist
298
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that the bureau had used
for analyzing cases before.
299
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And he was of the opinion that it...
more than likely, it was one individual.
300
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One person.
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He's in control of everything, basically.
302
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He knows where he is.
He knows what he's doing.
303
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Unfortunately, at that time,
we had no idea who that person was,
304
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and we weren't really sure where to look.
305
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That's what you're there for.
306
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It's your job to solve this investigation,
307
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and when you're not doin' it,
it gets very frustrating.
308
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I had many sleepless nights
because of this
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for a very long period of time.
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Tryin' to figure out, what can we do?
What can we do next?
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What you keep thinking is,
the longer we wait,
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this is going to result
in the death of more people.
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And that's what we really want to stop.
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We want to make sure
that nobody else gets killed.
315
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It made history
in the most brutal way
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as the first fatal abortion clinic bombing
in US history.
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An off-duty cop working security
at the clinic died.
318
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A nurse was critically injured.
319
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I turned on the news,
and they were broadcasting
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from Birmingham.
321
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Our worst fear had been realized.
322
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They have killed another person.
323
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They have had to bomb a clinic
in order to shut it down.
324
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Bomb techs,
they were able to determine
325
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that this bomb was very similar
to the other bombs,
326
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but there was one major difference.
327
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This was detonated by remote control.
328
00:21:56,732 --> 00:22:01,903
This individual was standing
in a position to see the officer
329
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when he bent over that device
and then detonate it.
330
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So, yeah, I mean,
you can't get more deliberate than that.
331
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At that point,
I'm runnin' the Birmingham bombing,
332
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which is now called "Sand Bomb"
for officer Sanderson who died.
333
00:22:26,261 --> 00:22:28,347
Just awful. Cold-blooded.
334
00:22:29,639 --> 00:22:30,974
It was brutal.
335
00:22:35,479 --> 00:22:38,648
I was briefed about
what happened following the bomb.
336
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One of the most amazing stories
of public intervention, uh, occurred.
337
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A young University of Alabama
at Birmingham premed student
338
00:22:51,620 --> 00:22:55,707
notices someone walking away
from the bombing from his dorm,
339
00:22:56,375 --> 00:22:58,085
and he thought that was odd.
340
00:22:59,378 --> 00:23:01,838
Everybody else is running
toward the explosion.
341
00:23:01,922 --> 00:23:05,801
And ultimately, he follows him
till he sees him at a truck.
342
00:23:06,385 --> 00:23:10,680
A gray Nissan pickup truck
with a license plate, North Carolina.
343
00:23:10,764 --> 00:23:13,683
K-N-D, triple one, seven.
344
00:23:15,727 --> 00:23:21,650
We run it through all our systems,
and it comes back to Eric Robert Rudolph,
345
00:23:23,193 --> 00:23:24,986
of Asheville, North Carolina.
346
00:23:27,614 --> 00:23:29,699
It was the break that we were looking for.
347
00:23:29,783 --> 00:23:35,080
Now we have a location
and an individual that we can focus on.
348
00:23:37,541 --> 00:23:40,627
I was ecstatic at this point
because, at last, we had a name.
349
00:23:40,710 --> 00:23:42,129
Now we knew where to go.
350
00:23:52,639 --> 00:23:55,725
All right, Jim. How do you
feel about being interviewed today?
351
00:23:55,809 --> 00:23:59,438
Um, you know,
once you, uh, disarm bombs in Iraq,
352
00:23:59,521 --> 00:24:03,275
this is not gonna be keepin' me up
at night, givin' me the night sweats.
353
00:24:03,817 --> 00:24:04,943
My name is Jim Russell.
354
00:24:05,026 --> 00:24:07,654
Uh, in 1998, I was a special agent
355
00:24:07,737 --> 00:24:10,282
in the Asheville, North Carolina, office
of the FBI.
356
00:24:12,576 --> 00:24:14,512
So, I got a... a call
from my supervisor,
357
00:24:14,536 --> 00:24:16,663
who advised that they had a address
358
00:24:16,746 --> 00:24:19,416
in South Asheville for Eric Rudolph.
359
00:24:20,500 --> 00:24:24,588
I hopped in my car
and headed out toward that location.
360
00:24:26,047 --> 00:24:31,094
This case was very personal to me
because I was on the, uh, FBI SWAT team
361
00:24:31,178 --> 00:24:33,763
in Atlanta for the Summer Olympic Games.
362
00:24:36,683 --> 00:24:37,683
Whoa!
363
00:24:39,394 --> 00:24:41,438
When the bomb went off,
it hit me hard.
364
00:24:41,521 --> 00:24:43,648
There was a feeling of anger.
365
00:24:44,232 --> 00:24:49,571
Is there something that we had failed
to do to prevent this... this bombing?
366
00:24:50,697 --> 00:24:53,909
I was hoping
that I could bring that killer to justice.
367
00:24:56,953 --> 00:24:59,289
So we go
to Eric Rudolph's last known address,
368
00:24:59,372 --> 00:25:00,999
and it's an apartment complex.
369
00:25:01,500 --> 00:25:03,376
We spoke with the apartment manager
370
00:25:03,460 --> 00:25:06,796
and asked her if she had a tenant
named Eric Rudolph living there.
371
00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:08,673
She indicated she did not.
372
00:25:09,341 --> 00:25:12,385
Uh, though she did say
that she had a Patricia Rudolph
373
00:25:12,469 --> 00:25:13,845
who used to be a resident there.
374
00:25:13,929 --> 00:25:17,057
And she had an emergency contact number
for Patricia Rudolph.
375
00:25:18,642 --> 00:25:21,228
I called that number, and a man answered.
376
00:25:21,770 --> 00:25:26,107
And he said, "I am Keith Rhodes.
Eric Rudolph is my brother-in-law."
377
00:25:26,191 --> 00:25:28,902
And he agreed to meet
in a parking lot in Asheville.
378
00:25:33,281 --> 00:25:36,660
Keith said that his brother-in-law
is very secretive.
379
00:25:37,369 --> 00:25:38,703
He is a loner.
380
00:25:38,787 --> 00:25:41,790
He had anti-government issues.
381
00:25:43,708 --> 00:25:46,044
The longer I'm talking to Keith,
382
00:25:46,127 --> 00:25:48,755
it's ticking off the boxes
an investigator has.
383
00:25:48,838 --> 00:25:50,257
We are on the right track.
384
00:25:52,300 --> 00:25:55,720
The family has no way
to get in contact with Rudolph.
385
00:25:56,388 --> 00:25:58,056
He would just show up out of the blue.
386
00:25:58,139 --> 00:26:00,850
And I asked him when was
the last time he saw Eric Rudolph.
387
00:26:00,934 --> 00:26:02,852
He said just, uh, the week before.
388
00:26:02,936 --> 00:26:05,438
And I asked him what he was...
what he was driving,
389
00:26:05,522 --> 00:26:07,816
and he said
it was a gray Nissan pickup truck
390
00:26:07,899 --> 00:26:09,568
with a white camper top.
391
00:26:12,529 --> 00:26:13,446
You get this feeling.
392
00:26:13,530 --> 00:26:15,657
It's an investigator's feeling.
A detective's feeling.
393
00:26:15,740 --> 00:26:19,244
It's... kinda like the hair on the back
of your neck kinda stands up.
394
00:26:19,327 --> 00:26:21,079
"This is the right guy."
395
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:24,749
So I asked Keith,
"Where can we find Eric?"
396
00:26:24,833 --> 00:26:29,546
He said he believed Eric was
actually living in Topton, North Carolina.
397
00:26:33,091 --> 00:26:35,719
So, the following day,
I get a name of an individual
398
00:26:35,802 --> 00:26:39,306
that was friends with Eric Rudolph,
399
00:26:40,181 --> 00:26:41,600
and we head out to his house.
400
00:26:41,683 --> 00:26:43,393
His name is, uh, Randy Cochran.
401
00:26:47,355 --> 00:26:50,525
We identify ourselves,
and before we can say anything else,
402
00:26:50,609 --> 00:26:52,289
he says, "I guess you're here about Eric."
403
00:26:55,697 --> 00:26:59,451
I thought Eric Rudolph's name
was not supposed to be public.
404
00:27:00,285 --> 00:27:02,537
WTF. That's what it is.
405
00:27:02,621 --> 00:27:05,624
How did he pick that name out of...
out of thin air
406
00:27:05,707 --> 00:27:09,252
when, you know, two special agents
show up on his doorstep?
407
00:27:10,670 --> 00:27:13,882
And I asked him,
"What do you know about Eric?"
408
00:27:13,965 --> 00:27:15,565
He said, "Well, he's all over the news."
409
00:27:15,634 --> 00:27:18,261
"If you want to come in and watch,
you'd be more than welcome to."
410
00:27:18,345 --> 00:27:19,971
Mr. Roger Brown, the Deputy DA...
411
00:27:20,055 --> 00:27:21,806
So, Randy invites me in.
412
00:27:22,307 --> 00:27:26,102
I'm watchin' the news,
see that there's a press conference,
413
00:27:26,186 --> 00:27:28,021
and it's all about Eric Rudolph.
414
00:27:29,022 --> 00:27:34,027
We have issued a warrant
for a Mr. Eric Robert Rudolph.
415
00:27:34,527 --> 00:27:36,655
White male, age 31.
416
00:27:36,738 --> 00:27:42,952
This is a material witness warrant,
and no one should jump to any conclusions
417
00:27:43,036 --> 00:27:48,124
about the fact that we are looking
to question Mr. Rudolph.
418
00:27:48,625 --> 00:27:51,336
There was a news leak,
and media were going to publish
419
00:27:51,419 --> 00:27:54,923
all the information on Rudolph anyway.
420
00:27:55,006 --> 00:27:58,760
And the US Attorney's Office
decided to get ahead of that
421
00:27:58,843 --> 00:28:00,720
and actually have a press conference.
422
00:28:01,638 --> 00:28:03,556
I'm getting more and more angry
423
00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:06,518
that all this information
is now made public.
424
00:28:06,601 --> 00:28:07,686
Thank you all.
425
00:28:07,769 --> 00:28:11,189
I'm thinking Rudolph could be
watching this press conference,
426
00:28:11,272 --> 00:28:13,733
and the clock has now started ticking.
427
00:28:16,695 --> 00:28:18,113
This will tip him off.
428
00:28:18,196 --> 00:28:22,492
Friends, acquaintances,
accomplices might warn him.
429
00:28:24,077 --> 00:28:26,121
I said, "Randy, where is Eric?"
430
00:28:26,204 --> 00:28:28,456
And Randy said,
"I can't give you an address,
431
00:28:29,082 --> 00:28:32,335
but I believe he's
in the Murphy, North Carolina, area."
432
00:28:33,878 --> 00:28:34,713
I called the sheriff.
433
00:28:34,796 --> 00:28:36,923
He ran a public records check,
434
00:28:37,006 --> 00:28:42,679
and he found that Rudolph had electricity
listed to a trailer on Caney Creek Road.
435
00:28:44,597 --> 00:28:47,183
So I drive to Murphy as quickly as I can.
436
00:28:50,478 --> 00:28:51,646
When I get there,
437
00:28:51,730 --> 00:28:56,526
I meet with an ATF agent
who's also SWAT trained.
438
00:28:59,821 --> 00:29:01,823
We put on our tactical gear.
439
00:29:02,449 --> 00:29:06,327
We decide to make an approach
on foot... to his trailer
440
00:29:06,411 --> 00:29:11,082
because we don't want
to have a convoy of dark-colored SUVs
441
00:29:11,166 --> 00:29:14,169
that could potentially spook or alert him.
442
00:29:16,755 --> 00:29:19,549
I've got a million things
going through my mind.
443
00:29:21,968 --> 00:29:26,681
Any normal person was gonna be
concerned and worried and fearful.
444
00:29:27,766 --> 00:29:31,436
I'm assuming that
he is armed and dangerous.
445
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:36,316
If this man did do the bombing
in Birmingham,
446
00:29:36,900 --> 00:29:38,777
he's already killed a police officer.
447
00:29:39,402 --> 00:29:41,029
There could be booby traps.
448
00:29:41,529 --> 00:29:42,989
There could be IEDs.
449
00:29:48,286 --> 00:29:52,832
I see that the lights are on
in the trailer, which was good news.
450
00:29:52,916 --> 00:29:55,543
And I noticed
that the front door was open.
451
00:29:57,879 --> 00:30:00,048
And only the screen door was closed.
452
00:30:02,717 --> 00:30:06,262
I did a 360 walk around the trailer.
453
00:30:06,763 --> 00:30:09,432
Looked in all the windows. He's not home.
454
00:30:13,019 --> 00:30:15,730
I thought, "Ah... ah shit."
455
00:30:15,814 --> 00:30:17,106
"We've missed him."
456
00:30:17,190 --> 00:30:19,901
I figured he heard the news and he fled.
457
00:30:22,654 --> 00:30:25,156
There was a lot of firearms
in the trailer,
458
00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:27,742
and there was an empty rifle case,
459
00:30:27,826 --> 00:30:30,829
which led us to believe
that he had a rifle with him.
460
00:30:32,372 --> 00:30:37,669
There was, like, $1,500 pasted
behind a picture in 100 dollar bills.
461
00:30:38,169 --> 00:30:39,671
He left that house in a hurry.
462
00:30:41,339 --> 00:30:45,218
Eric Rudolph is now on the run.
It's officially a manhunt.
463
00:30:51,975 --> 00:30:54,269
We certainly
had somebody to look for,
464
00:30:54,352 --> 00:30:57,272
but it was gonna be
very difficult finding him.
465
00:31:00,191 --> 00:31:02,777
We learned that he had been born
in Florida.
466
00:31:02,861 --> 00:31:06,739
He had moved
to North Carolina, uh, with his family.
467
00:31:06,823 --> 00:31:09,367
His... his father died
when he was very young.
468
00:31:11,327 --> 00:31:14,622
He had been raised
very much a Christian influence,
469
00:31:14,706 --> 00:31:17,375
to the point of some
of the Christian identity movements
470
00:31:17,458 --> 00:31:21,921
that would've been
very much antigay and antiabortion.
471
00:31:23,548 --> 00:31:25,300
But there were times
when he had disappeared
472
00:31:25,383 --> 00:31:28,678
that he may have interacted
with certain radical groups.
473
00:31:29,846 --> 00:31:32,682
He'd spent time
in the 101st Airborne Division
474
00:31:32,765 --> 00:31:35,268
as an explosives specialist.
475
00:31:35,351 --> 00:31:38,521
And he had learned a great deal
about making bombs.
476
00:31:41,524 --> 00:31:43,276
So many things
start pointing to him.
477
00:31:43,359 --> 00:31:45,528
So many things start comin' together.
478
00:31:46,905 --> 00:31:49,699
The childhood, his beliefs,
479
00:31:49,782 --> 00:31:53,828
maybe his anti-government feelings,
because he was thrown out of the military.
480
00:31:53,912 --> 00:31:57,457
He got kicked out
for testing positive for marijuana use.
481
00:32:00,168 --> 00:32:01,878
I'm an Irish Catholic.
482
00:32:01,961 --> 00:32:06,799
I just... I just never understood
how a Christian person
483
00:32:06,883 --> 00:32:10,970
could use religion as a justification
484
00:32:11,471 --> 00:32:17,018
for horrific bombings
that maimed and killed people.
485
00:32:19,312 --> 00:32:21,731
He's almost evil incarnate in my mind.
486
00:32:21,814 --> 00:32:25,652
To capture him,
to stop him from harming anybody else?
487
00:32:25,735 --> 00:32:27,820
Yeah, that's doin' the Lord's work.
488
00:32:43,294 --> 00:32:46,089
This is the location
where Eric Rudolph's truck was found
489
00:32:46,172 --> 00:32:50,385
by a couple of hunters eight days
after he had fled from his trailer.
490
00:32:52,220 --> 00:32:56,933
As Rudolph came through this meadow,
and he got closer to this brush line,
491
00:32:57,016 --> 00:33:01,771
um, he increased his speed
and buried his pickup truck
492
00:33:01,854 --> 00:33:06,067
inside this brushy area,
so it was not visible.
493
00:33:09,988 --> 00:33:12,115
The truck was searched.
494
00:33:12,198 --> 00:33:14,075
One of the items found
in the truck
495
00:33:14,158 --> 00:33:15,758
was a receipt from Burger King in Murphy
496
00:33:16,202 --> 00:33:18,830
for a Double Whopper
with fries and a Coke.
497
00:33:18,913 --> 00:33:21,332
Time-stamped 6:56 p.m.
498
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,669
That would've been an hour or two
499
00:33:24,752 --> 00:33:27,630
before I got to his trailer
that same night.
500
00:33:30,174 --> 00:33:34,679
And I thought that was the last time
he thought he'd be able to get a hot meal
501
00:33:34,762 --> 00:33:37,306
from a fast food restaurant
for quite some time.
502
00:33:37,890 --> 00:33:40,101
There was another receipt
found in the truck.
503
00:33:40,184 --> 00:33:42,895
It was from the local Bi-Lo
grocery store there in Murphy.
504
00:33:42,979 --> 00:33:45,773
He bought over $100 worth of supplies.
505
00:33:47,066 --> 00:33:50,820
Tuna, oatmeal, raisins, nuts.
506
00:33:50,903 --> 00:33:54,866
It was estimated that he could spend
about five to six months in the woods.
507
00:33:55,825 --> 00:33:59,328
All this food led me to believe
that he's gonna stay in the area,
508
00:33:59,412 --> 00:34:02,707
and he's gonna hunker down,
and he's gonna try and evade capture.
509
00:34:04,292 --> 00:34:07,587
Also found in the vehicle
was explosive residue
510
00:34:07,670 --> 00:34:09,213
found on the steering wheel.
511
00:34:10,298 --> 00:34:12,842
We had our bomber.
512
00:34:15,303 --> 00:34:18,681
I was a member of the SWAT team
that went out in the woods,
513
00:34:18,765 --> 00:34:20,808
actively searching for Eric Rudolph.
514
00:34:23,019 --> 00:34:26,647
One of my buddies on the team
was a good friend, Rick Schwein.
515
00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:30,151
Remember, ten pounds lighter.
516
00:34:31,069 --> 00:34:33,988
My father was a special agent
with the FBI.
517
00:34:34,072 --> 00:34:36,115
I had grown up around the bureau
518
00:34:36,199 --> 00:34:39,368
and around a lot of people
that carried the badge and the gun.
519
00:34:40,536 --> 00:34:43,414
I grew up around men
that were larger than life.
520
00:34:43,498 --> 00:34:46,834
Who would tell these amazing stories
of good versus evil,
521
00:34:46,918 --> 00:34:48,628
and the good guys always won.
522
00:34:49,337 --> 00:34:52,006
And, you know, the more I was around that,
523
00:34:52,090 --> 00:34:56,719
the more I think I realized,
I wanted to be that guy.
524
00:34:58,596 --> 00:35:02,600
After Birmingham, there are hundreds
of agents descending on North Carolina.
525
00:35:06,104 --> 00:35:07,855
It really is a small army.
526
00:35:10,358 --> 00:35:13,861
I was looking
for a needle in a box full of needles
527
00:35:13,945 --> 00:35:16,197
that was in a state full of haystacks
528
00:35:16,697 --> 00:35:22,203
because the area was vast,
and, uh, the terrain was formidable.
529
00:35:24,372 --> 00:35:26,999
This was personal because,
you know, I knew one of the agents
530
00:35:27,083 --> 00:35:30,461
that had been wounded
in the ambush bombing in Sandy Springs,
531
00:35:30,962 --> 00:35:32,922
and he had murdered
a fellow police officer.
532
00:35:33,005 --> 00:35:35,091
So I was hunting a cop killer.
533
00:35:35,174 --> 00:35:37,343
If you can't get motivated by that,
534
00:35:37,426 --> 00:35:40,054
there aren't too many things
that are gonna motivate you.
535
00:35:42,765 --> 00:35:45,143
Everything we did, you had to do
536
00:35:45,226 --> 00:35:48,396
with an eye
towards your own self-preservation.
537
00:35:48,479 --> 00:35:51,357
You're in terrain
where he has the advantage.
538
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:54,026
'Cause we were dealing with a guy
that had military training,
539
00:35:54,110 --> 00:35:56,404
that could have surprised us at any time.
540
00:35:57,071 --> 00:36:01,868
That had expertise with explosives.
That knew how to booby-trap things.
541
00:36:03,494 --> 00:36:07,165
If you aren't afraid, you're a fool.
542
00:36:07,665 --> 00:36:09,750
It's what you do with the fear
that matters.
543
00:36:14,088 --> 00:36:17,175
There are pockets
of Christian identity groups
544
00:36:17,258 --> 00:36:19,135
and anti-government groups.
545
00:36:19,218 --> 00:36:24,724
And those pockets of people
weren't happy about the presence
546
00:36:24,807 --> 00:36:27,310
that showed up hunting for Eric Rudolph.
547
00:36:27,393 --> 00:36:28,477
And you could see it.
548
00:36:28,561 --> 00:36:31,814
I mean, there would be signs
that would pop up, "Run, Rudolph, run."
549
00:36:31,898 --> 00:36:36,944
"Eric Rudolph, hide-and-seek champion,"
fill in the blank "days in a row."
550
00:36:38,487 --> 00:36:40,448
Some people saw him as a folk hero.
551
00:36:42,700 --> 00:36:45,578
You have to understand
that there are gonna be people out there,
552
00:36:45,661 --> 00:36:49,624
that not... not only are going
to root for him,
553
00:36:49,707 --> 00:36:52,251
but may try and assist him.
554
00:36:53,252 --> 00:36:55,046
Federal, state,
and local agencies
555
00:36:55,129 --> 00:36:56,797
have doubled the number of officers
556
00:36:56,881 --> 00:36:59,550
searching for Eric Rudolph,
who is still thought to be hiding
557
00:36:59,634 --> 00:37:01,761
in the mountains
of Western North Carolina.
558
00:37:03,221 --> 00:37:07,225
Authorities have searched
in vain for Rudolph for nearly six months.
559
00:37:08,476 --> 00:37:11,437
There was constantly people
getting hurt
560
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:13,689
and injured during the search.
561
00:37:15,608 --> 00:37:19,612
If you did a whole day out in that woods,
everybody was exhausted.
562
00:37:20,279 --> 00:37:22,281
And then you'd just get up
and do it again.
563
00:37:22,365 --> 00:37:23,699
Day after day after day.
564
00:37:34,168 --> 00:37:36,921
The search goes on for months and months.
565
00:37:37,672 --> 00:37:39,048
I rarely get home.
566
00:37:40,091 --> 00:37:43,177
My wife, God bless her, Kate,
we have four kids.
567
00:37:43,261 --> 00:37:46,013
She's raising them almost all by herself,
568
00:37:46,097 --> 00:37:48,474
while I'm out in the woods
lookin' for Rudolph.
569
00:37:51,269 --> 00:37:53,020
She wants to know when I'm coming home.
570
00:37:53,104 --> 00:37:54,855
The kids wanna know,
"When you coming home?"
571
00:37:54,939 --> 00:37:56,524
And that's an answer I can't give them.
572
00:37:56,607 --> 00:38:02,571
And it just... it puts a strain
on... on a marriage, on a family.
573
00:38:08,786 --> 00:38:14,792
Eric Rudolph took me away from my family
at least seven different times,
574
00:38:14,875 --> 00:38:17,420
uh, hunting him as a SWAT operator.
575
00:38:17,503 --> 00:38:22,550
You know, service comes at a price,
and you miss a lot of things.
576
00:38:22,633 --> 00:38:26,887
Well, I'm no longer married.
So, um, yeah, it's hard.
577
00:38:32,977 --> 00:38:36,814
There was no sightings of him
after the summer of '98.
578
00:38:36,897 --> 00:38:41,610
Nothing in '99, 2000, 2001, or 2002.
579
00:38:46,324 --> 00:38:49,660
So in... in 2002, I take over the manhunt.
580
00:38:50,828 --> 00:38:54,332
Our strategy is keeping it
in the public eye.
581
00:38:54,415 --> 00:38:57,460
Suspected abortion clinic
bomber Eric Rudolph
582
00:38:57,543 --> 00:39:00,338
is added to the FBI's
Ten Most Wanted list.
583
00:39:01,297 --> 00:39:04,050
The reward for Rudolph's capture
is now being increased
584
00:39:04,133 --> 00:39:06,886
from $100,000 to one million dollars.
585
00:39:08,679 --> 00:39:10,890
Hopefully we can generate some leads,
586
00:39:10,973 --> 00:39:14,101
but also, um,
so that we can let the victims know
587
00:39:14,185 --> 00:39:16,979
that we haven't forgotten
and we're gonna keep looking for him.
588
00:39:21,317 --> 00:39:23,944
The hunt
for Rudolph was scaled back.
589
00:39:24,945 --> 00:39:28,532
Rick asked if I wanted to be
the lead agent
590
00:39:28,616 --> 00:39:30,576
on the fugitive investigation,
591
00:39:30,659 --> 00:39:35,331
and I asked him
not to assign me this case.
592
00:39:37,208 --> 00:39:41,087
I thought Rudolph had fallen
into a crevasse and broken an ankle,
593
00:39:41,170 --> 00:39:46,300
or broken his leg, and had suffered
from hypothermia and exposure.
594
00:39:46,384 --> 00:39:48,135
So I... I... I thought he was dead.
595
00:39:49,303 --> 00:39:54,934
And if some bear hunters found his bones,
and it was later a match for Eric Rudolph,
596
00:39:55,518 --> 00:39:58,604
um, there wouldn't have been
any crocodile tears from me.
597
00:40:08,697 --> 00:40:12,034
Eight months after I take over
the investigation,
598
00:40:12,118 --> 00:40:13,786
I get a call at 3:00 in the morning.
599
00:40:16,414 --> 00:40:19,083
They've got a guy
in custody in Murphy, North Carolina,
600
00:40:19,166 --> 00:40:21,252
that bears a resemblance to Rudolph.
601
00:40:24,296 --> 00:40:26,841
And we're on the road,
and we're flyin', right?
602
00:40:26,924 --> 00:40:29,677
'Cause, you know,
a good physical resemblance
603
00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:30,761
in the search area,
604
00:40:30,845 --> 00:40:31,887
this could be him.
605
00:40:33,722 --> 00:40:36,725
And as we're headin' to Murphy,
I get a call.
606
00:40:36,809 --> 00:40:38,436
He just admitted his identity.
607
00:40:38,519 --> 00:40:42,898
And Rudolph says,
"I'm Eric Robert Rudolph. You got me."
608
00:40:46,944 --> 00:40:50,448
You know, after we confirmed
his identity, I called Jim Russell.
609
00:40:50,948 --> 00:40:55,494
And when I told him, "It's him," I...
I think Jim was like, "No shit."
610
00:40:55,578 --> 00:40:57,378
He teases me about that.
He teases me about...
611
00:40:57,455 --> 00:41:00,124
He thought... When I'd tell him
I thought he was dead.
612
00:41:00,916 --> 00:41:02,460
So, yeah.
613
00:41:02,543 --> 00:41:06,464
It's not the first time Jim Russell's
been wrong... and it won't be the last.
614
00:41:07,256 --> 00:41:10,217
There are only a few moments in a career
615
00:41:10,301 --> 00:41:13,220
that, uh, you're gonna take with you
the rest of your life,
616
00:41:13,304 --> 00:41:15,014
and that was certainly one of them.
617
00:41:17,308 --> 00:41:19,810
This is
a CBS News Special Report.
618
00:41:21,145 --> 00:41:24,106
The FBI now confirms
that one of its ten most wanted,
619
00:41:24,190 --> 00:41:27,276
fugitive bombing suspect
Eric Rudolph, is under arrest.
620
00:41:27,359 --> 00:41:29,445
Sheriff's Deputies in Murphy,
North Carolina
621
00:41:29,528 --> 00:41:31,822
say they took Rudolph into custody
this morning...
622
00:41:32,990 --> 00:41:35,159
And it couldn't have had
a better ending.
623
00:41:35,659 --> 00:41:38,078
This highly trained survivalist
624
00:41:38,162 --> 00:41:43,167
who spent five years
eluding an army of federal investigators
625
00:41:43,250 --> 00:41:46,504
gets caught by a rookie police officer,
626
00:41:46,587 --> 00:41:49,840
diving in a dumpster,
trying to find his next meal.
627
00:41:51,383 --> 00:41:54,303
Ending one of the longest manhunts
in American history.
628
00:41:58,766 --> 00:42:02,478
So, I get a look at Rudolph
shortly after the arrest.
629
00:42:02,561 --> 00:42:03,896
And I gotta tell you,
630
00:42:03,979 --> 00:42:07,399
he didn't look like somebody
that had spent the last five years
631
00:42:07,483 --> 00:42:09,818
living off the land in the woods.
632
00:42:11,946 --> 00:42:13,280
He's too clean.
633
00:42:13,364 --> 00:42:15,282
His... his hair is cut.
634
00:42:15,783 --> 00:42:18,702
He's... he's got a light beard,
so he's clearly shaved.
635
00:42:18,786 --> 00:42:25,334
He doesn't have the grime that people
would have embedded in their skin.
636
00:42:25,417 --> 00:42:29,129
So my impression is, he hasn't been
out there the whole time.
637
00:42:29,838 --> 00:42:32,216
Could he have had help?
That's very plausible.
638
00:42:32,883 --> 00:42:33,801
We'll never know.
639
00:42:33,884 --> 00:42:37,721
The only person that knows the answer
to that question is Eric Rudolph.
640
00:42:43,894 --> 00:42:45,771
So, in order
to save his own life,
641
00:42:45,854 --> 00:42:47,856
in order to avoid the death penalty,
642
00:42:47,940 --> 00:42:53,279
Rudolph pleads guilty and gives up
the locations of the bombs that he buried,
643
00:42:53,362 --> 00:42:57,992
as well as this cache
of several hundred pounds of dynamite.
644
00:42:59,285 --> 00:43:02,413
It was very satisfying
to get the componentry
645
00:43:02,496 --> 00:43:06,041
that was a match
to all the previous bombings.
646
00:43:06,125 --> 00:43:10,379
We found his tools that he used
to build and design the IEDs,
647
00:43:10,462 --> 00:43:13,299
and that was a treasure trove of evidence.
648
00:43:13,882 --> 00:43:16,594
I mean, that was...
that was conclusive proof
649
00:43:16,677 --> 00:43:18,929
that he was the Olympics bomber.
650
00:43:20,931 --> 00:43:25,352
Rudolph's dynamite
that he buried was so unstable...
651
00:43:25,436 --> 00:43:28,397
...we have no choice
but to blow it up in place.
652
00:43:32,401 --> 00:43:36,447
And it rattled windows
in that entire five-county area
653
00:43:36,530 --> 00:43:39,158
that we'd spent
all those years hunting him.
654
00:43:46,081 --> 00:43:49,585
I'm sitting at my desk.
I get a call, and he said,
655
00:43:49,668 --> 00:43:53,130
"Hey, what do you think
about Eric Rudolph being captured?"
656
00:43:53,213 --> 00:43:55,758
I said, "Man, I'm glad they caught
that son of a bitch."
657
00:43:55,841 --> 00:43:59,053
"I don't care who caught him.
I'm just glad he's off the street."
658
00:44:02,389 --> 00:44:06,769
I'll never forget that day
at the Sandy Springs building.
659
00:44:12,024 --> 00:44:15,527
I've never been
that close to death in my whole career.
660
00:44:20,032 --> 00:44:24,787
This is a replica of one of the nails used
as shrapnel in the Sandy Springs bomb.
661
00:44:24,870 --> 00:44:30,084
It's a 4D cut nail, and, as you could see,
uh, would do a lot of damage.
662
00:44:31,210 --> 00:44:33,504
It's a memory of that investigation.
663
00:44:33,587 --> 00:44:37,341
It's a memory of
how close I came to being a victim.
664
00:44:37,841 --> 00:44:42,054
It's a memory of what the FBI's all about.
665
00:44:42,137 --> 00:44:43,764
That we never stopped.
666
00:44:43,847 --> 00:44:46,308
We kept going, and we got our man.
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