On May 31, 2003, 5 years 4 months and 2 days after Eric Robert Rudolph blew up the New Woman All Women clinic in Birmingham and disappeared into the North Carolina mountains, a 21-year-old rookie cop named Jeff Postell turned off the lights in his police cruiser and pulled around the corner of the Save-A-Lot grocery store in Murphy, North Carolina.
He did what a lot of seasoned cops hadn’t done over the years. He followed procedure to a T, varying his routine and arriving at an unexpected time. He saw a man running away from a trash bin behind the grocery store. He ordered him to stop. The great survivalist Eric Rudolph had been caught by a rookie cop while dumpster diving for rotten bananas behind a grocery story. This is that story.
American Shrapnel is an eight-part series from Alabama Media Group. It starts with the biggest pipe bomb the FBI had ever seen. It ends in a dumpster, after the largest manhunt in U.S. history. This is the story of Eric Rudolph and the rise of American rage. Available on Apple, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.
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