MURPHY, N.C. - Suspected Olympic park bomber Eric Rudolph, a 36-year-old former soldier and survivalist, remained under heavy guard in a county jail yesterday as federal agents in camouflage headed into the surrounding woods once again, this time hoping to figure out how he eluded them for five years.
More than a dozen law enforcement vehicles lined U.S. 74 across from Murphy High School, a short distance from the grocery store where Rudolph was caught early Saturday when a rookie police officer spotted him scrounging for food.
"We're following logical leads as to where he might have been," said Chris Swecker, special agent in charge of the FBI in North Carolina. "Any site we find will be methodically processed." Rudolph is scheduled to appear in federal court this morning in Asheville.
He faces six federal counts of using an explosive against a facility in interstate commerce. The charges stem from the explosion in Atlanta's Olympic Centennial Park during the 1996 summer Olympics; a 1998 bombing at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala.; and 1997 bombings in Atlanta outside a gay nightclub and an office building that housed an abortion clinic.
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