Tag: Eric Rudolph

Episode 108-The Capture of Eric Rudolph, Part 2

Around 4 a.m. on May 31, 2003, 21-year-old rookie police officer Jeff Postell was making a second run patrolling the area behind the Valley Village shopping center in the town of Murphy, which at the time had under 2,000 residents, when he noticed a man ducking behind some milk crates at the Sav-A-Lot. Postell took a closer look because he thought he had interrupted a burglary in progress. When he noticed the man had a black object in his hand,...

Episode 107: Eric Rudolph, The Escape, Part 1

On July 27, 1996, a bomb exploded in Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta during the Summer Olympic Games. Alice Hawthorne, a 44-year-old businesswoman and resident of Albany, Georgia, had decided at the last-minute to take her 14-year-old daughter Fallon to the celebration. She loved Atlanta and often traveled there to shop and attend events. She died as a result of injuries from multiple penetrating metal fragments from the bomb. Her daughter...