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Eric Rudolph Going to Court
Aired June 02, 2003 - 06:31 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Fugitive found. In just a few hours, the suspected Olympic Park bomber will be in court. Right now, Eric Rudolph is in a tiny jail cell in Murphy, North Carolina, but soon he'll be taken to Asheville, where we find our Jason Bellini.
Good morning -- Jason. The security must be intense in Murphy.
JASON BELLINI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, it's starting to build up, because he has to be here by 10:00 this morning. And we're very anxious to see how he looks. He's been in that jail, as you said, and so we've only gotten reports of his condition.
Now, one officer over the weekend said that he didn't look like he had been living in the woods. That was a quote from one officer. And when he was found in Murphy behind a grocery store by a rookie officer, they say he was wearing clean clothes and clean shoes, and he didn't look terribly scruffy. They said perhaps only a couple of days that he'd gone without shaving.
So, very curious how he managed to do this after surviving for five years in the wilderness.
We also don't know too many specifics about what Rudolph has told investigators, if he's really told them much at all, other than that we've learned that he stayed in Murphy the entire five years -- that's what officials are telling us -- and that he's reportedly relieved to no longer being on the run.
Now, this morning he is going to be transferred from Murphy, we're told, by helicopter, perhaps seeing the mountains and the trees for one of the very last times, because he's going to be processed this morning into the jail here, where he'll be bar-coded, he'll be processed just like any other prisoner. The bar code also contains his picture.
We're told by local officials that they're going to put him in his own cell as long as that's OK with the federal officials. And he'll stay there until he's transferred either to Atlanta or to Birmingham, another fact that we'll learn this morning which city he'll be going to.
So, again, Carol, we're very anxious to see what he looks like to get those first pictures of him and see for ourselves his condition -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Jason Bellini live from Asheville, North Carolina.
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Aired June 2, 2003 - 06:31 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Fugitive found. In just a few hours, the suspected Olympic Park bomber will be in court. Right now, Eric Rudolph is in a tiny jail cell in Murphy, North Carolina, but soon he'll be taken to Asheville, where we find our Jason Bellini.
Good morning -- Jason. The security must be intense in Murphy.
JASON BELLINI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, it's starting to build up, because he has to be here by 10:00 this morning. And we're very anxious to see how he looks. He's been in that jail, as you said, and so we've only gotten reports of his condition.
Now, one officer over the weekend said that he didn't look like he had been living in the woods. That was a quote from one officer. And when he was found in Murphy behind a grocery store by a rookie officer, they say he was wearing clean clothes and clean shoes, and he didn't look terribly scruffy. They said perhaps only a couple of days that he'd gone without shaving.
So, very curious how he managed to do this after surviving for five years in the wilderness.
We also don't know too many specifics about what Rudolph has told investigators, if he's really told them much at all, other than that we've learned that he stayed in Murphy the entire five years -- that's what officials are telling us -- and that he's reportedly relieved to no longer being on the run.
Now, this morning he is going to be transferred from Murphy, we're told, by helicopter, perhaps seeing the mountains and the trees for one of the very last times, because he's going to be processed this morning into the jail here, where he'll be bar-coded, he'll be processed just like any other prisoner. The bar code also contains his picture.
We're told by local officials that they're going to put him in his own cell as long as that's OK with the federal officials. And he'll stay there until he's transferred either to Atlanta or to Birmingham, another fact that we'll learn this morning which city he'll be going to.
So, again, Carol, we're very anxious to see what he looks like to get those first pictures of him and see for ourselves his condition -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Jason Bellini live from Asheville, North Carolina.
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com.
