Rudolph’s hidden explosives rattle Murphy residents

[G_j]

http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050414/NEWS01/50413018/1001

Rudolph’s hidden explosives rattle Murphy residents


By Jill Ingram
STAFF WRITER
published: April 14, 2005 6:00 am

MURPHY — It took Keith Beaver three afternoons of walking the hill by his house to find it: the crater left when federal agents exploded a bomb left buried there by Eric Robert Rudolph.

“I’m not a Rudolph fan,” Beaver said. “I just wanted to see the magnitude of it. And I needed the exercise.”

Agents exploded the bomb April 5 with little or no warning to area residents. Rudolph had buried the bomb, which had a detached detonation device, along with stores of dynamite. He used them as a bargaining chip in negotiating a deal with the federal government that allowed him a guilty plea and four consecutive life sentences rather than a trial and possibly the death penalty.

The crater is up a steep hill off Old Tomotla Road, just outside Murphy. About 4 feet deep and the diameter of an inflatable kiddie pool, in Wednesday’s rain the crater was a muddy pit, water pooling at the bottom. The explosion threw chunks of dirt into nearby trees and stripped a long piece of bark from a scrubby white oak on the crater’s edge.

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[Oreo]

1. But he's no terrorist....

I'm sure there are a good number of righties that think he's a hero.
A restaurant in NC supposedly has a sign that says 'Rudolph ate here'.

[Demeter]

3. And He Got a Plea Bargain

whereas McVeigh got what he'd so generously given 167 or so, and in a much less painful fashion.

[MellowOne]

5. Actually

"Rudolph ate here" was spray painted onto a dumpster behind a store where he was arrested. I believe it was Save-A-Lot grocery store. He was found eating out of the dumpster before they caught him.

[G_j]

6. I think you are correct about that story

the locals in general, would not publicly voice support for him, though it seems pretty obvious he was helped.

[youspeakmylanguage]

7. I went to college in the NC mountains...

...it was a positive experience overall within the college community, but some of the locals were strange, angry, violent people. Some of them were wonderful people, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if the fundie survivalists among them did help protect Rudolph. In fact, judging by his apparent health upon capture, I think it's more than likely that they did.

I didn't expect the feds under this administration to investigate for very long, though.

[MellowOne]

8. You are right about the people

I know a policeman in Murphy, I live near Asheville. There are many militia-type groups in those mountains.

Apparently, some of Rudloph's relatives helped him out as well as these groups.

After he was captured he said he was so lonely for women that the bears were starting to look good.

[wakeme2008]

2. This is troubling

"Something else was troubling Bain.

With a man as cagey as Rudolph has proved to be, Bain wondered, “How do you know he doesn’t have more?”"


With Life w/o Parole, he can have his friends visit him. If he has more major supplies out there, he can pass that info along to his friends...

[G_j]

4. yep, why would anyone possibly believe

he told them of all his hidden explosives?
yea right!