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Eric Rudolph Captured: Who is Talking Now?

Aired June 04, 2003 - 06:08   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: Federal agents are dismantling a campsite, where they think Rudolph spent most of the last five years, but the only reason they found it is because Rudolph opened up to local and state police, but he will not open up to the feds.
CNN's Art Harris tells us what Rudolph told the cops.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

ART HARRIS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: As the saying now goes around Murphy, North Carolina: "It's the local cops who get their man and get their man to talk."

CNN has learned it was state and local police, not federal agents, who got Eric Rudolph to reveal the secret campsite and the secrets of how he survived for five years on the run right under their noses.

SGT. LESTER WHITE, CHEROKEE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA: He said he survived in these woods for five years, that he had not left this area. And that I asked him how he handled being in the woods that long, and he said, well, you just have to make it like basically a long camping trip.

HARRIS: About that camping trip, Rudolph told deputies he survived by killing turkey, deer, bear, but what he didn't cook and eat, he smoked and dried and used for jerky during the winter. He'd also survived, he said, on a steady diet of acorns and salamanders, what some are calling "Carolina sushi."

Art Harris, CNN, Murphy, North Carolina.

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Aired June 4, 2003 - 06:08   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Federal agents are dismantling a campsite, where they think Rudolph spent most of the last five years, but the only reason they found it is because Rudolph opened up to local and state police, but he will not open up to the feds.
CNN's Art Harris tells us what Rudolph told the cops.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

ART HARRIS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: As the saying now goes around Murphy, North Carolina: "It's the local cops who get their man and get their man to talk."

CNN has learned it was state and local police, not federal agents, who got Eric Rudolph to reveal the secret campsite and the secrets of how he survived for five years on the run right under their noses.

SGT. LESTER WHITE, CHEROKEE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA: He said he survived in these woods for five years, that he had not left this area. And that I asked him how he handled being in the woods that long, and he said, well, you just have to make it like basically a long camping trip.

HARRIS: About that camping trip, Rudolph told deputies he survived by killing turkey, deer, bear, but what he didn't cook and eat, he smoked and dried and used for jerky during the winter. He'd also survived, he said, on a steady diet of acorns and salamanders, what some are calling "Carolina sushi."

Art Harris, CNN, Murphy, North Carolina.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

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