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Ask CNN: Are Any Authorities Still Looking for Eric Rudolph, and If There Are, How Many Are There, and How Often Do They Look for Him?

Aired July 27, 2001 - 10:34   ET

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JULIAN CULLUM, NORCROSS, GEORGIA: Hi, my name is Julian Cullum, and I'm from Norcross, Georgia. I would like to ask CNN if there are any authorities still looking for Eric Rudolph, and if there are, how many are there, and how often do they look for him?

ART HARRIS, CNN INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT: Yes, Julian. The FBI is still hunting accused Olympic Park bomber Eric Rudolph, he's still high on its most-wanted list, even though his family says he is innocent. Charged with murder, Rudolph is accused of four bombings that left two dead and more than 100 injured in Atlanta and Birmingham, Alabama.

After the Birmingham bomb, in 1998, agents found his trailer, in Murphy, North Carolina, but Eric had vanished into the nearby Nantahala National Forest he started exploring when he was 14. He was last seen nearly three years ago, when he took hundreds of pounds of food from a food warehouse. Then he went back into the woods, where the FBI still thinks that he is hiding, may be in a cave or a mine.

After spending $20 million since the Olympic Park bombing, the FBI has changed tactics and cut back to a couple of agents up there. They're also trackers to watch the woods and asking his friends about Eric's old hiding places.

So far, the $1 million award has no takers. Rudolph is armed, dangerous, and still wanted.

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