Case Study On Domestic Terrorism

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Domestic Terrorism BCJ 3701-11K-5A12-S1, Criminal Investigation Unit VI Project Professor Edward Walker I chose to write my unit project on domestic terrorist and serial bomber, Eric Rudolph. Eric Robert Rudolph is a white male born on September 19, 1966 in Merritt Island, Florida. His family moved to the rural area of Nantahala, North Carolina, where he was raised. Before he entered the military and before being implicated in homegrown terrorism that cost two people their lives, Eric Rudolph had a life on a downward spiral. A descent into uncontrollable anger that developed over time, and an intolerance of differences in race and gender preference that was festering years before the attacks contributed to his acts of violence. He adhered to the Christian Identity, a white…show more content…
On July 27, 1996, he bombed Centennial Olympic Park (home of the 1996 US Olympics) in Atlanta, Georgia. On January 27, 1997, he bombed the Atlanta Northside Family Planning Services; a month later, the Otherside Lounge, a lesbian bar, also in Atlanta, was bombed. This bombing was followed by a letter sent to Atlanta media organizations railing against abortion clinics and homosexuality and claiming responsibility for the bombing by the "Army of God." It concluded with the phrase "Death to the New World Order”. On January 29, 1998, Rudolph used a radio-controlled nail bomb at the New Woman All Women Health Care Centre in Birmingham, Alabama. (Noe, 2012) Eric Robert Rudolph was arrested on May 31, 2003 without incident in his hometown of Murphy, NC. He had been on the run from law enforcement officials and on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List for almost five years. “Rudolph pled guilty to the bombings at Olympic Park, the gay bar and the two abortion clinics - one in Atlanta, GA, and the other in Birmingham, AL - as well as two murders resulting from these bombings. The incidents took place from

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