The Olympics explode on a July night in 1996. The largest pipe bomb the country has ever seen. A string of bombings shakes Atlanta for the next year.
Thousands of photos and videos produce one blurry image of the attacker, a photo so grainy the FBI called him “Blob Man.” Agents zero in on the wrong man, the media follows suit, and the real bomber slips away.
Until Birmingham. In Alabama, the Blob Man finally makes a misstep. He detonates another bomb, but this time someone sees something. A college student asks himself a question: Why, when everyone else is rushing to see what happened, is that man running away?
That curious student breaks open what was then the largest manhunt in U.S. history: the search for Eric Robert Rudolph.
Years pass. No trace. Does he have help? Is he planning more attacks?
In American Shrapnel, the latest podcast from the Murrow-winning Alabama Media Group, join 2x Pulitzer Prize winner John Archibald and award-winning journalist Becca Andrews as they track the path of destruction — from the bombings, through the manhunt, and back to the twisted politics that fueled it. You’ll hear the stories of survivors, radicals and heroes.
This isn’t a story of the past. The anger that fueled it has only grown stronger today.
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The Olympics explode on a July night in 1996. The largest pipe bomb the country has ever seen. A string of bombings shakes Atlanta for the next year.
Thousands of photos and videos produce one blurry image of the attacker, a photo so grainy the FBI called him “Blob Man.” Agents zero in on the wrong man, the media follows suit, and the real bomber slips away.
Until Birmingham. In Alabama, the Blob Man finally makes a misstep. He detonates another bomb, but this time someone sees something. A college student asks himself a question: Why, when everyone else is rushing to see what happened, is that man running away?
That curious student breaks open what was then the largest manhunt in U.S. history: the search for Eric Robert Rudolph.
Years pass. No trace. Does he have help? Is he planning more attacks?
In American Shrapnel, the latest podcast from the Murrow-winning Alabama Media Group, join 2x Pulitzer Prize winner John Archibald and award-winning journalist Becca Andrews as they track the path of destruction — from the bombings, through the manhunt, and back to the twisted politics that fueled it. You’ll hear the stories of survivors, radicals and heroes.
This isn’t a story of the past. The anger that fueled it has only grown stronger today.
Eric Rudolph was finally in shackles. But what would become of him? As prosecutors in Georgia and Alabama jockeyed to be first to take him to trial, a new worry emerged. It was dynamite. About 200 pounds of it.
Host, Writer: Becca Andrews
Host, Writer: John Archibald
Executive Producer, Co-Creator: John Hammontree
Audio Engineer: Daniel Potter
Field Producer: Sarah Whites-Koditscheck
Social Producers: Caroline Vincent, Mila Olivera
Logo Design: DJB Design
Theme Music: “Birmingham” by Beth Thornley and Rob Cairns
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Rookie cop Jeff Postell’s life would change forever when he found a man digging through a dumpster in Murphy, North Carolina. The man said his name was “Jerry Wilson,” but he had an awfully familiar face.
Host, Writer: Becca Andrews
Host, Writer: John Archibald
Executive Producer, Co-Creator: John Hammontree
Audio Engineer: Daniel Potter
Field Producer: Sarah Whites-Koditscheck
Social Producers: Caroline Vincent, Mila Olivera
Logo Design: DJB Design
Theme Music: “Birmingham” by Beth Thornley and Rob Cairns
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Why did Eric Rudolph target abortion clinics? Friends said they didn’t know Rudolph cared about that issue. But the battle over abortion rights had been long and bloody. Meet the women who were soldiers in that movement. And its casualties.
Host, Writer: Becca Andrews
Host, Writer: John Archibald
Executive Producer, Co-Creator: John Hammontree
Audio Engineer: Daniel Potter
Field Producer: Sarah Whites-Koditscheck
Social Producers: Caroline Vincent, Mila Olivera
Logo Design: DJB Design
Theme Music: “Birmingham” by Beth Thornley and Rob Cairns
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Memrie Cresswell stood up to tuck in her shirt as a bomb exploded at the Otherside lounge. It saved her life. Time after time luck was the thing that kept Rudolph’s body count from soaring. As he desperately tries to kill more, his bombs evolve.
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What radicalized Eric Rudolph? Family. Neighbors. Timothy McVeigh. But there’s more. Come on a whirlwind ride through a brazen armored car robbery, an antisemitic preacher who once considered the bomber a protege, the U.S. Army, and a girl named Joy. And meet the men trying to make a whole army of Eric Rudolphs.
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Eric Rudolph was a chameleon. A Bible thumper and a skilled pot grower, a Holocaust denier and an avid reader. Stories from family and friends reveal a dangerous, contradictory man. And his secrets.
Host, Writer: Becca Andrews
Host, Writer: John Archibald
Executive Producer, Co-Creator: John Hammontree
Audio Engineer: Chris Hoff
Field Producer: Sarah Whites-Koditscheck
Social Producers: Caroline Vincent, Mila Olivera
Logo Design: DJB Design
Theme Music: “Birmingham” by Beth Thornley and Rob Cairns
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Agents descend on Murphy, N.C. only to find a Goldilocks scene. The stove is still warm but the inhabitant is gone. Eric Rudolph disappears in the frenzy. Tales emerge of a severed hand, a would-be Rambo, and a crowd cheering “Run Rudolph Run”
Host, Writer: Becca Andrews
Host, Writer: John Archibald
Executive Producer, Co-Creator: John Hammontree
Audio Engineer: Chris Hoff
Field Producer: Sarah Whites-Koditscheck
Social Producers: Caroline Vincent, Mila Olivera
Logo Design: DJB Design
Theme Music: “Birmingham” by Beth Thornley and Rob Cairns
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An explosion at the ‘96 Olympics, and the bomber slips away. Two more bombs. A photo of the suspect so grainy the FBI called him “Blob Man.” Then, a college student sees a suspicious man leaving the scene of yet another bomb. Follow the unlikely hero on a daring chase that would give agents their first big break.
Host, Writer: Becca Andrews
Host, Writer: John Archibald
Executive Producer, Co-Creator: John Hammontree
Audio Engineer: Chris Hoff
Field Producer: Sarah Whites-Koditscheck
Social Producers: Caroline Vincent, Mila Olivera
Logo Design: DJB Design
Theme Music: “Birmingham” by Beth Thornley and Rob Cairns
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Olympics explode on a July night in 1996. The largest pipe bomb the country has ever seen. A string of bombings shakes Atlanta for the next year.
Thousands of photos and videos produce one blurry image of the attacker, a photo so grainy the FBI called him “Blob Man.” Agents zero in on the wrong man, the media follows suit, and the real bomber slips away.
Until Birmingham. In Alabama, the Blob Man finally makes a misstep. He detonates another bomb, but this time someone sees something. A college student asks himself a question: Why, when everyone else is rushing to see what happened, is that man running away?
That curious student breaks open what was then the largest manhunt in U.S. history: the search for Eric Robert Rudolph.
Years pass. No trace. Does he have help? Is he planning more attacks?
In American Shrapnel, the latest podcast from the Murrow-winning Alabama Media Group, join 2x Pulitzer Prize winner John Archibald and award-winning journalist Becca Andrews as they track the path of destruction — from the bombings, through the manhunt, and back to the twisted politics that fueled it. You’ll hear the stories of survivors, radicals and heroes.
This isn’t a story of the past. The anger that fueled it has only grown stronger today.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Olympics explode on a July night in 1996. The largest pipe bomb the country has ever seen. A string of bombings shakes Atlanta for the next year.
Thousands of photos and videos produce one blurry image of the attacker, a photo so grainy the FBI called him “Blob Man.” Agents zero in on the wrong man, the media follows suit, and the real bomber slips away.
Until Birmingham. In Alabama, the Blob Man finally makes a misstep. He detonates another bomb, but this time someone sees something. A college student asks himself a question: Why, when everyone else is rushing to see what happened, is that man running away?
That curious student breaks open what was then the largest manhunt in U.S. history: the search for Eric Robert Rudolph.
Years pass. No trace. Does he have help? Is he planning more attacks?
In American Shrapnel, the latest podcast from the Murrow-winning Alabama Media Group, join 2x Pulitzer Prize winner John Archibald and award-winning journalist Becca Andrews as they track the path of destruction — from the bombings, through the manhunt, and back to the twisted politics that fueled it. You’ll hear the stories of survivors, radicals and heroes.
This isn’t a story of the past. The anger that fueled it has only grown stronger today.
