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What Eric Rudolph Left Behind at Campsites

Aired June 03, 2003 - 06:30   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: Now to Eric Robert Rudolph and the legal road ahead of him. Rudolph faces arraignment in federal court in Birmingham, Alabama, this afternoon. He'll stand trial there. He's accused of bombing a woman's health clinic, where one person was killed and another critically wounded. Later, he'll be tried in Georgia, where he's accused of three bombings; among them, then Olympic Park bombing, where one person was killed.
Now, if convicted on the murder charges, Rudolph could face the death penalty. Attorney General John Ashcroft has yet to say if the government will seek the death penalty.

And even though Eric Rudolph has left his western North Carolina hideout, FBI agents have not.

CNN's Art Harris reports on what they found.

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ART HARRIS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: CNN has learned searchers have found a semi-automatic assault rifle believed to belong to Eric Rudolph at one of two secret campsites in the rugged mountains behind me here in North Carolina. The rifle is believed bought at a gun show. Authorities also believe Mr. Rudolph had other guns, and they are on the lookout for that and more deadly weapons, like dynamite that was stolen from a supply depot here about two or three years ago.

Agents have discovered two campsites in two days in the rugged hills above Murphy, North Carolina. One was above a parking lot, where Eric Rudolph was arrested apparently dumpster-diving outside a grocery store; the other campsite about five miles away atop a tall mountain. We tried to go there, but were stopped at a police roadblock. An FBI agent, who had just gone to the campsite, said he would advise us against it, because it was a very rough climb.

Art Harris, CNN, Murphy, North Carolina.

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Aired June 3, 2003 - 06:30   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Now to Eric Robert Rudolph and the legal road ahead of him. Rudolph faces arraignment in federal court in Birmingham, Alabama, this afternoon. He'll stand trial there. He's accused of bombing a woman's health clinic, where one person was killed and another critically wounded. Later, he'll be tried in Georgia, where he's accused of three bombings; among them, then Olympic Park bombing, where one person was killed.
Now, if convicted on the murder charges, Rudolph could face the death penalty. Attorney General John Ashcroft has yet to say if the government will seek the death penalty.

And even though Eric Rudolph has left his western North Carolina hideout, FBI agents have not.

CNN's Art Harris reports on what they found.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

ART HARRIS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: CNN has learned searchers have found a semi-automatic assault rifle believed to belong to Eric Rudolph at one of two secret campsites in the rugged mountains behind me here in North Carolina. The rifle is believed bought at a gun show. Authorities also believe Mr. Rudolph had other guns, and they are on the lookout for that and more deadly weapons, like dynamite that was stolen from a supply depot here about two or three years ago.

Agents have discovered two campsites in two days in the rugged hills above Murphy, North Carolina. One was above a parking lot, where Eric Rudolph was arrested apparently dumpster-diving outside a grocery store; the other campsite about five miles away atop a tall mountain. We tried to go there, but were stopped at a police roadblock. An FBI agent, who had just gone to the campsite, said he would advise us against it, because it was a very rough climb.

Art Harris, CNN, Murphy, North Carolina.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

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