Rudolph Timeline
Key dates in the alleged criminal career of Eric Rudolph.
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Bombing of Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park kills a woman and injures 111 other people.
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Two bombs explode at an office building in the Atlanta suburb of Sandy Springs, injuring six. An abortion clinic in the building is believed to be the target.
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Nail-laden device explodes at The Otherside Lounge, a gay and lesbian nightclub in Atlanta. Five people are injured.
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Explosion kills a policeman and maims a nurse at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala.
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Rudolph stocks up on supplies in North Carolina and vanishes.
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Rudolph is charged in the Alabama abortion clinic bombing.
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Task force investigating the Birmingham bombing is formally merged with a task force investigating the three bombings in Atlanta.
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The FBI adds Rudolph to its 10 Most Wanted list and offers a $1 million reward for his capture.
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Health food store owner in North Carolina tells authorities Rudolph took six months' worth of food and supplies and a pickup truck from his home, leaving five $100 bills as payment.
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Rudolph is charged with the Olympic bombing and the two other attacks in the Atlanta area.
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After more than five years on the run, Rudolph is captured when police spot him digging in a trash bin in Murphy, N.C.
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Rudolph pleads innocent to the deadly bombing at a Birmingham, Alabama abortion clinic. He faces the death penalty if convicted.
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The government says Rudolph has agreed to plead guilty in all the bombings in a deal that will spare him from the death penalty. The plea deal is approved after Rudolph points authorities to his stashes of about 250 pounds of stolen dynamite and a bomb in western North Carolina.
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Making back-to-back court appearances in Birmingham, Ala., and Atlanta, Rudolph pleads guilty to four bombings that killed two people and wounded more than 120 others. As part of his deal with prosecutors, he will get four consecutive life sentences without parole.
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Rudolph is sentenced to life in prison after he angrily denounces abortion and one of his victims tells the Birmingham, Ala., federal courtroom he is a "monster." He receives two life terms without parole.
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Rudolph is sentenced to life in prison for the 1996 Olympics blast in Atlanta. Just before his sentence was handed down, he apologized to the victims, saying, "I would do anything to take that night back."
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Credits:
CBS News, Associated Press
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