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FBI Putting Together Pieces of Rudolph Puzzle

Aired June 02, 2003 - 05:31   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Serial bombing suspect Eric Robert Rudolph wakes up this morning in a jail cell in Murphy, North Carolina. He's scheduled to appear in federal court in Asheville just about five hours from now. Rudolph is suspected of four bomb attacks in Atlanta and in Birmingham in 1996 and 1998. Two people killed in the explosions and more than 150 injured. The hearing will determine where he'll go on trial.
After five years on the lam, Rudolph was nabbed dumpster diving early Saturday morning by a rookie police officer.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

OFFICE. J.C. POSTELL, MURPHY, NORTH CAROLINA POLICE: Well, when I walked up behind him, I was under the impression I had somebody back there breaking and entering or prowling around. I never realized that it would have been who it is now. It's probably a relief to some of the families that's been involved and also the law enforcement agencies that have been involved. I don't deserve any more credit than anyone else does. I was just here doing what I was, what I'm supposed to be doing, and that's, you know, that, like I said, it's my job and I'm just glad I was in the right place at the right time.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

COSTELLO: That he was. And more federal agents are being called in to scour the mountainous western North Carolina region. They'll be trying to figure out how Rudolph eluded them for five years.

CNN investigative correspondent Art Harris has more for you on that.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

ART HARRIS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: We saw the FBI digging under the bridge and it looked like they were digging up a tarpaulin or something, a big piece of cloth. What does that tell you?

CHARLES STONE, FORMER GBI AGENT: Oh, we believed Eric had cached food supplies in various and sundry locations back in 1998. We knew he was following a classic military escape and evasion doctrine by burying his trash and I would assume that the FBI is looking, checking trails, checking suspicious piles of dirt, things of that, looking for evidence that can be tied to Eric and just backtracking him back to one of his hiding places.

HARRIS: Living in the woods up here and going under the bridge to the dumpster to get his dinner.

STONE: Exactly. He doesn't have to worry about being seen. You've got the thick forest on one side of the road. He drives down underneath the bridge. He doesn't have to worry about being seen by the cars, crosses the river here and ends up behind a grocery store foraging for foodstuffs.

HARRIS: His last supper.

STONE: Last free supper.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

COSTELLO: Art Harris reporting there.

Rudolph's capture and his legal future will, of course, be the hot topic when we talk with our legal analyst, Kendall Coffey. That will happen in the next hour of DAYBREAK.

And we'll learn more about the Rudolph investigation when FBI Special Agent Chris Swecker appears on CNN's AMERICAN MORNING. That happens about an hour and a half from now.

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Aired June 2, 2003 - 05:31   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Serial bombing suspect Eric Robert Rudolph wakes up this morning in a jail cell in Murphy, North Carolina. He's scheduled to appear in federal court in Asheville just about five hours from now. Rudolph is suspected of four bomb attacks in Atlanta and in Birmingham in 1996 and 1998. Two people killed in the explosions and more than 150 injured. The hearing will determine where he'll go on trial.
After five years on the lam, Rudolph was nabbed dumpster diving early Saturday morning by a rookie police officer.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

OFFICE. J.C. POSTELL, MURPHY, NORTH CAROLINA POLICE: Well, when I walked up behind him, I was under the impression I had somebody back there breaking and entering or prowling around. I never realized that it would have been who it is now. It's probably a relief to some of the families that's been involved and also the law enforcement agencies that have been involved. I don't deserve any more credit than anyone else does. I was just here doing what I was, what I'm supposed to be doing, and that's, you know, that, like I said, it's my job and I'm just glad I was in the right place at the right time.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

COSTELLO: That he was. And more federal agents are being called in to scour the mountainous western North Carolina region. They'll be trying to figure out how Rudolph eluded them for five years.

CNN investigative correspondent Art Harris has more for you on that.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

ART HARRIS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: We saw the FBI digging under the bridge and it looked like they were digging up a tarpaulin or something, a big piece of cloth. What does that tell you?

CHARLES STONE, FORMER GBI AGENT: Oh, we believed Eric had cached food supplies in various and sundry locations back in 1998. We knew he was following a classic military escape and evasion doctrine by burying his trash and I would assume that the FBI is looking, checking trails, checking suspicious piles of dirt, things of that, looking for evidence that can be tied to Eric and just backtracking him back to one of his hiding places.

HARRIS: Living in the woods up here and going under the bridge to the dumpster to get his dinner.

STONE: Exactly. He doesn't have to worry about being seen. You've got the thick forest on one side of the road. He drives down underneath the bridge. He doesn't have to worry about being seen by the cars, crosses the river here and ends up behind a grocery store foraging for foodstuffs.

HARRIS: His last supper.

STONE: Last free supper.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

COSTELLO: Art Harris reporting there.

Rudolph's capture and his legal future will, of course, be the hot topic when we talk with our legal analyst, Kendall Coffey. That will happen in the next hour of DAYBREAK.

And we'll learn more about the Rudolph investigation when FBI Special Agent Chris Swecker appears on CNN's AMERICAN MORNING. That happens about an hour and a half from now.

TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com