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Sources: Rudolph to join FBI's Ten Most Wanted list
April 29, 1998
Web posted at: 10:27 p.m. EDT (0227 GMT)WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The FBI is expected to add Eric Rudolph, charged with the nation's first fatal bombing of a women's health clinic, to its list of Ten Most Wanted fugitives and offer a $1 million reward for his capture, say sources close to the investigation. The announcement will be made next week, they said.
Rudolph, 31, has eluded authorities since the January 29 bombing at the New Woman All Women Clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, which killed a security guard and badly injured a nurse. Abortions are performed at the clinic.
Within a week of the blast, the Murphy, North Carolina, man was sought as a material witness. By February 14, he was formally charged with using an explosive device to damage the building, which carries a possible death sentence. The sources said authorities decided to raise the reward from $100,000 to $1 million to put more pressure on anyone who might be helping Rudolph hide.
On March 17, the task force investigating the Birmingham bombing was merged with an older task force assigned to solve three bombings in Atlanta, including one at Centennial Olympic Park in July 1996. Although the merger announcement made no mention of Rudolph, the now-superseded Atlanta Bomb Task Force had been looking into whether he might also be responsible for the Atlanta attacks.
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