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Authorities find truck of man sought as bombing witness
February 8, 1998
Rudolph paid the rent on this trailer through February 20
Web posted at: 9:09 p.m. EST (0209 GMT)(CNN) -- Federal authorities tell CNN they have discovered the truck belonging to 31-year-old Eric Robert Rudolph, the man wanted as a material witness in the Birmingham clinic bombing.
The truck was discovered abandoned about five miles from Rudolph's home in western North Carolina. Authorities are examining the vehicle for forensic evidence.
Rudolph's truck -- a gray 1989 Nissan pickup with North Carolina plates -- was seen leaving the area of the Birmingham, Alabama, clinic on January 29, minutes after a bomb blew out windows and left a crater at the front door.
An off-duty police officer moonlighting as a security guard was killed and a nurse was wounded in the nation's first fatal bombing at a clinic where abortions are performed.
A day after the bombing, a warrant was issued for Rudolph as a material witness. He has yet to come forward, and the FBI issued an appeal Friday saying it "urgently" needed to talk with him.
Linda Ledford, who manages a video store in Murphy, North Carolina, said Saturday the store's records show that a video was rented by a person signing Rudolph's name on the night of January 29, and again during the day on January 30.
Murphy is a four-hour drive from Birmingham and the location of a trailer that is Rudolph's last known address.
A swarm of FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents on Thursday took a number of items from a house Rudolph once rented and the trailer he currently rented in Murphy for $275 a month.
Rudolph rented it November 20 and had paid through February 20, said his landlord, Jonathan Crisp.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Related stories:
- Birmingham women's clinic reopens - February 5, 1998
- Agents search home of material witness in Birmingham bombing - February 4, 1998
- FBI releases photo of clinic bombing 'material witness' - February 3, 1998
- Clinic bombing victim to be buried Monday - February 2, 1998
- 'Army of God' letters claim responsibility for clinic bombing - February 2, 1998
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