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Hi, it's Andrea Gunning, the host of Betrayal. I'm excited to announce that the betrayal podcast is expanding. We are going to be releasing episodes weekly every Thursday. Each week, you'll hear brand new stories, firsthand accounts of shocking deception, broken trust, and the trail of destruction left behind. Listen to betrayal weekly on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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I'm John Wolzak, host of the new podcast missing in Arizona.

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And I'm Robert Fisher, one of the most wanted men in the world.

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We cloned his voice using AI in 2001.

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Police say I killed my family and.

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Rigged my house to explode before escaping into the wilderness.

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Police believe he is alive and hiding somewhere.

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Join me. I'm going down in the cave as I track down clues.

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I'm gonna call the police and have you removed.

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Hunting one of the most dangerous fugitives.

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In the world, Robert Fisher, do you recognize my voice?

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Listen to missing in Arizona every Wednesday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your favorite shows.

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Hello?

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This is really important. You know that explosion downtown?

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Yeah.

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I see the guy walking from that direction, and he had a. He had a wig on, and it was like, what was that explosion? And, you know, I walked outside and.

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What kind of wig?

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This guy, he was.

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Long wig. Short wig.

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He had a long wig.

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What color?

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The wig was, like brown color.

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This is from a transcript of the 911 call made by Jermaine Hughes, a UAB law student, just moments after a huge explosion at a Birmingham abortion clinic shook the entire downtown area on January 29, 1998. The same explosion that killed a police officer, Robert Sanderson, and critically injured a nurse. Emily Lyons Hughes made the call from a phone at a McDonald's near the clinic.

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Was he white or black?

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He's. He's a white guy.

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What did he have on?

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Say again?

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What did he have on?

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I was following him in a burst. He had on flannel or something. I'm not exactly sure.

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This call went on for a while, with the 911 operator and Hughes talking past each other at one point. The operator even scolded him.

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You can't even remember what he had on. Ma'am, you cannot remember a clothing description?

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No, I don't remember clothes. I'm kind of exasperated right now.

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Hughes frustration was building. At one point, he lost the connection and called back, still trying to convince someone to believe him, when suddenly he saw a man walking down 20th street who looked familiar.

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I got him.

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Where is he?

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I got him. I think this is him.

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Is he on foot?

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Yes, he's on foot. He has black glasses on. He's walking into the woods toward Vulcan.

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It's safe to say most of the customers at this McDonald's were listening intently to Hughes's side of this phone call. One of them, a lawyer named Jeff Tickle, put aside his breakfast to help. Tickle started calling out a description for Hughes to give. The 911 operator. The man they had seen had changed his appearance, now in a green and black plaid shirt, jeans, and brown boots. Together, they stood inside the McDonalds, watching through the giant picture window as the mysterious figure wandered off the road and into a wooded area.

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I cant see him now. I can't believe I'm standing here. There's not a cop here by now.

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They're on the way. They'll be there in just a minute.

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Tickle got in his car and drove along Valley Avenue looking for the individual. He eventually pulled to a side street to discover the same man loading gear into a gray Nissan pickup. He trailed it, and when he got a clear view, he wrote down its tag, knd 1117. He didn't know it at the time, but he'd just stumbled upon the key to unveiling the mysterious figure behind the serial bombings. Episode four from a McDonald's payphone.

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I had arranged to meet a Birmingham news reporter. She covered the federal courts. She just wanted to catch up on my first, like, five months in office and how things were going. And as I got in the car, the radio said that there was a traffic problem initially on south side and to steer clear of 10th Avenue south. But then shortly thereafter, they came back and said that there were reports that there had been a bomb explode.

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Doug Jones is a figure of note in Alabama politics. His tenure as a us senator spanned from 2018 to 2021, a period in which he was thrust into the limelight as the first democratic senator in the state of Alabama in 25 years. But Doug Jones led a reputable career long before making the Senate. His roots were in law in 1998, when the Birmingham abortion clinic bombing took place. He was a us attorney working high profile litigation cases.

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I parked my car because they had all of 10th Street south cardoned off with tape. And the police officer that was standing there obviously recognized me. And I said, lionel, what's going on? What's happened? He said, well, we've had the bomb explode at the clinic. We got a police officer down. He's dead. There's a nurse who's been severely injured. I don't know if she'll make it or nothing, but we just got her in the ambulance and they took off. And I'm looking and I just look literally to my immediate left and there was the clinic building. And you could see that the awning had been destroyed, windows had been broken out. It was a mess. You know, I like to say sometimes it looked like images that you would have seen through some bombing on another part of the world. And the body of the police officer was there. And I started moving that way because there was no one around that police officer's body. And I instinctively started moving that weight. I said, well, we've got to do something. And then I had a hand grab my shoulder and stop me. He said, doug, you can't go up there.

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I said, why not? We seem like we've got to do something. And he said, look, we're concerned that there could be a secondary device and we can't go up there for a while. The FBI, Atfdez, Birmingham police were all coming in with their mobile units and agents, keeping the area cleared, staying away from the scene. All coming, setting up radio, setting up things in the command post. The most significant part of that day for me was establishing the joint task force to investigate this case. I talked to the attorney general. She had a preference for having the FBI take complete charge. And I said, you know, with all due respect, we got a Birmingham police officer down. I want an ATF to take charge of doing all the forensics on the bomb. Do your thing and tell me what exploded. Get that, all that forensics to me for the FBI. You do what the FBI does best. You track down suspects, you track down witnesses. You do fingerprints, you do whatever DNA, if there is anything, whatever analysis that you need to do, you help get the search warrants. And I said, the third thing is, I know that there's often some friction between state and federal, but I want the Birmingham police to be a full partner here.

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They lost one of their own. We established that task force. It became known in the FBI files as Sandbomb, named after Sandy Sanderson, the police officer who died. And that task force, I think together did a pretty remarkable job.

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And this time with this bomb, something was different. The bomber didn't just stop and vanish before the explosion.

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Jermaine Hughes was a freshman african american student from, you know, kind of a small town in Alabama. And he was doing his laundry, if I recall correctly, he was doing the laundry in the basement of the dorm, and he heard the bomb explode. And when he looked out of his window, you could see some smoke and some those things coming from over the hill where the clinic was and some people moving that way. But yet there was one individual that appeared to have some kind of disguise on, according to Germain, and was not running, but walking very hurriedly away from the scene. And he just thought to himself, there's something wrong with this picture. There's just something wrong with that person. And left his laundry and decided to go look and see for himself, not at the scene, but that individual he saw. And he followed him some. At one point, he walked near him, and Jermaine kind of pretended he had a problem with his cardinal, but then he loses him. And he gets in his car, and he drives around to try to see what he could find. And he goes over Red Mountain, and there's a McDonald's sitting on the other side.

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Now he calls 911, starts trying to describe what he saw, and there he is. There he is right outside here. And Jeff Tickle, who's a lawyer in Birmingham, is sitting right there having breakfast and hears him. And he helps him describe what this man is wearing at the time. Before he gets to the intersection, he cuts through the woods and vanishes. So Jermaine finishes his call, and he and Jeff tickle get in their separate vehicles. They went in different places, looking. Jeff saw him get in a truck, a gray Nissan pickup truck, and took a McDonald's coffee cup and wrote the tag number of the pickup truck down.

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Now, law enforcement had a lead. They had a prime suspect. And what's more, forensics had determined that this bomb was detonated remotely, which meant the bomber was watching and deciding when to detonate. This time, the bomber wanted to choose his victims, wanted to see his victims suffer, wanted to see the damage he inflicted.

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The tag number we ran and was registered to Eric Rudolph. Eric Robert RudolpH.

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I'm John Wolzak, host of the new podcast missing in Arizona.

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And I'm Robert Fisher, one of the most wanted men in the world.

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Voice using AI in 2001, police say.

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I killed my family, first mom, then the kids, and rigged my house to.

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Explode in a quiet suburb.

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This is the Beverly hills of the valley. Before escaping into the wilderness.

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There was sleet and hail and snow coming down.

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They found my wife's suv right on the reservation boundary, and my dog flew.

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All I could think of is seeing.

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The sniper me out of some tree, but not me.

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Police believe he is alive and hiding and somewhere.

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For two years, they won't tell you anything. I've traveled the nation. I'm going down in the cave, tracking down clues.

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They were thinking that I picked him up and took him somewhere.

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Keep asking me this. I'm gonna call the police and have you removed.

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Searching for Robert Fisher, one of the.

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Most dangerous fugitives in the world.

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Do you recognize my voice?

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Join an exploding house, the hunt family. Annihilation today and a disappearing act. Listen to missing in Arizona every Wednesday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your favorite shows.

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Hi, it's Andrea Gunning, host of Betrayal. I'm excited to announce that the betrayal podcast is expanding. We are going to be releasing episodes weekly every Thursday. Each week, you'll hear brand new stories, firsthand accounts of shocking deception, broken trust, and the trail of destruction left behind. Stories about regaining a sense of safety, a handle on reality after your entire world is flipped upside down from unbelievable romantic betrayals.

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The love that was so real for me was always just a game for him.

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To betrayals in your own family.

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When I think about my dad. Oh, well, he is a sociopath.

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Financial betrayal. This is not even the part where he steals millions of dollars and life or death deceptions.

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She's practicing how she's gonna cry when the police calls her after they kill me.

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Listen to betrayal Weekly on the I Heart radio app Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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They initially put out what they call a bolo. Be on the lookout for the gray Nissan pickup truck. We knew it was North Carolina plate, so they started looking.

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Doug Jones and his team had no clue who Eric Rudolph was. No one did. He wasn't a suspect on anyone's list. And the truth is, there was no list. This was the first real lead in the investigation.

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So at some point in that day, they tracked his driver's license down. We had no id that the driver of that vehicle was, in fact, Eric Rudolph. The only thing that we knew is that Eric Rudolph's truck, we believe, was involved in this bombing. And candidly, we were very sensitive about what had happened in Atlanta. In Atlanta, Richard Jewell became a suspect. It was leaked. There was an incredible, intense focus on Richard Jewellen, and as it turns out, there was nothing to that we didn't want to repeat that, and we took extra cautions to try to not to do that.

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Jermaine Hughes and Jeff Tickle may have seen Rudolph fleeing the scene, but as far as law enforcement was learning, Eric Robert Rudolph was a ghost. Aside from his current driver's license, his vehicle registration in an eight year old military record, Rudolph had no paper trail. He owned no property. He paid no taxes. He never voted. He had no bank accounts, and he had never used a credit card. He had no criminal record, not even a speeding ticket. And now, following the Birmingham clinic bombing, there were more than five agencies involved, including the FBI. That's a lot of cooks in the kitchen, which makes it that much harder to keep the lid on tight.

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There was a lot of stress on everybody. And the FBI, they were already under tremendous pressure to solve the Atlanta park cases in the women's clinic and the gay nightclub in Atlanta. They were under tremendous pressure there. And that is another reason why I wanted to make sure that this case stayed here. I didn't have those pressures. But, yeah, we butted heads a few times.

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This is not an uncommon problem. And in this case, it did work itself out, but not before a few bumps in the road.

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We spent a day or two trying to find him. We couldn't find him, so we decided that we did not have enough, because we did not have a good idea on the individual, only the truck. So the only other available option to us is to make sure we brought him in for questioning was a material witness warrant, and we were able to package that together to say, this person, we believe, has material information about this crime that was committed in Birmingham, Alabama. We have been unable to locate him. We don't have any reason to think that he would cooperate with us. And so we want the ability to arrest him and hold him should we be able to find him.

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At this point, based on the directional plates found in each of the bombs, law enforcement was fairly certain that these different bombings were connected. But how does that information help you find a suspect? Here's former us attorney Ken Alexander again.

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Well, there's been a change in law enforcement since the Olympics, and I think part of it is results of the Olympic bombing. There was talk at the time, though, that the recording by the bomber, that there's a bomb in Centennial park.

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There is a bomb in Centennial park. You have 30 minutes.

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There was talk of playing that. As you can imagine, if you had played that message right after the bombing, that voice, that recording would have essentially gone viral. Everybody in the world would have heard it. Ive got to think that at the time, had that been played right off the bat, that theres a pretty good chance Eric Rudolph would have been Idd much earlier. But that just wasnt the way that law enforcement generally operated at the time. By contrast, if you fast forward to the Boston Marathon bombing there, when you had pictures of the two brothers, those went out immediately and people started identifying who the brothers were. That allowed the case to be solved a lot faster. So there's been a morphing in law enforcement of bringing the public in to help with an investigation as opposed to pushing the public aside. If that morphing had taken place already, there's a chance we would have found Eric Rudolph far earlier than we did.

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Vic O'Corn called me up and said, hey, we've got a solid lead on this Birmingham bombing that had occurred earlier that day. He said a witness had got a personal description of vehicle description, and they'd got a tag number, a license plate number. And I figured since he's calling me, that the tag probably came back to somewhere in western North Carolina.

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FBI agent Jim Russell was one of just a few agents responsible for the western side of North Carolina back in 1998. He mostly investigated violent crimes in the area's expansive national forests and Cherokee indian reservations.

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And he said they had already run the tag and got an address as a registration, and it came back to an apartment complex in Asheville, North Carolina. This is close to quitting time, close to five. So my other new agent partner, Rex Roden. Rex and I went out to that location.

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Western North Carolina is hill country, luscious forests with steep terrain and rushing rivers running through the valleys. The forest is overwhelming. It kind of swallows you. Everything is isolated, even neighbors. And there's a libertarian sort of independence that doesn't quite mesh with the idea of a society. The people here are straightforward, resistant to nuance. But sometimes nuance is really important. The devil is in the details. The apartment that Jim Russell and his partner Rex went to investigate was a 64 unit apartment complex called Skyland Heights in Asheville.

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The truck was not in the parking lot, so we went to the manager's office, and she was just getting ready to leave. And we asked her if she had a tenant by the name of Eric Rudolph staying there at the complex. And she says that name doesn't ring a bell. I don't know everybody, but I'll be happy to check. And she went through all the old tenancies of the apartment complex. She says, the only person I found here is a Patricia Rudolphe I asked her if can we look at the application? And I noticed on there that there was an emergency contact name and number. Four mora roads in Hendersonville, North Carolina, which is about 15 to 20 miles south of Asheville. And there was an emergency contact number. And when I called that number, her husband Keith picked up the phone. I started talking to Keith, and I asked him what he knew about, and was he somehow related to Eric Rudolph? And he said, yes, that's my brother in law. It's Mora's brother. He said, I'm not too shocked that the FBI is calling me. What did he do now? And I said, well, there's some indication that he might have had something to do with the bombing that happened in Birmingham.

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And he said, well, I don't want to talk in front of Maura.

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Maura is Rudolph's older sister. Little was known about her then. Little is known about her now.

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She was cooperative to an extent, but she didn't want to believe that Keith could have done something like that, and so she was more reticent. I believe we got much more information out of Keith because Keith didn't like him. Keith didn't like Eric. They just didn't get along. So we arranged to meet him at a shop that was like a bicycle shop.

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Jim Russell, his partner, and Keith huddled into a car in that bicycle shop parking lot.

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The first thing we asked is, do you know where Eric is at now? Where is he currently living? And he said he had no specific location for him. Eric was very secretive about his whereabouts. Always had been, if I had to guess. I think he's probably living in western North Carolina, in Topton, North Carolina, which is his boyhood home.

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Topton's located about two and a half hours from Atlanta, going up I 75 to 575 to get there. Like all of western North Carolina, it's beautiful but remote. Billboard screaming of Jesus. Guns and pharmaceuticals are rampant, and they're not always advertised on separate billboards. The area gets a lot of vacationers with folks coming to visit the Nantahala National Forest, but not to be disturbed are the residents of Topton. People in this region don't go in for a lot of bullshit. And outsiders, they bring a lot of bullshit.

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And I said, does he, you know, is he married? Does he have girlfriends? Does he have friends? He says, no. He's a loner. He's always been a loner. He tends to irritate people. He's very racist. He's very sexist. He is anti government. And as he's clicking off these terms to describe Eric Rudolph. You know, Rex and I, we're just kind of looking each other. Nothing he's saying is eliminating Eric as being a possible suspect. All those indications are taken off the right boxes that we are on the trail of the right person.

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Keith said the last time he and Mara saw her brother was the week prior when he came to their son's basketball game. Rudolph was late to the game and left immediately after in a gray Nissan pickup truck with a white camper top.

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And he said, and that's typical. He never tells us he's coming. He just. He will show up, you know, we said, is there a telephone number for him? He said, if he has his phone, he doesn't give us any information. Everything is a one way street with Eric.

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He's a ghost, not only to law enforcement, but to his family as well.

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I developed a good working relationship and a friendship with the SBI special agent that worked in the Topton Andrews, North Carolina area by the name of Tom Fry. Tom Fry had been a state bureau investigation agent out there for maybe at least 15 years. So every bad guy, every drug dealer, Tom pretty much knew. And Tom had never heard of Eric Rudolph. So he says, I'm going to do some record checks, and I'll meet you in the morning. It's very rural, very isolated. It's in some beautiful, beautiful mountains. I don't even think there's a traffic light. You know, very two lane, windy roads. People, as a general rule, they can be cooperative to the FBI, but there's a lot of anti federal government sediment out there. Tom and I had gotten up there early. We were going to his last known address where he had grown up. You know, it was a good investigative technique that we have used in the past. Out there is, you know, it seems like the guy who delivers the mail knows a lot about a lot of people. Tom and I, we were just trying to catch up with this rural delivery mail truck for a while, and we finally got up with them.

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And then he said, nah, I know Eric Rudolph. I haven't seen him in a long time. But if anybody was a friend of Eric Rudolph, it's Randy Cochran. They were buddies in high school. You know, it might be a good idea for you to get touch with Randy. He said, that'd be my best guess of trying to find out where Eric is living right now. By the time we got up to his house, I'm thinking it's around 06:00 in the evening. I didn't know who he was at the time. But he opens the door, and I said, you know, it's Jim Russell, FBI. Tom Fry, SBI. We're wanting to ask you about. And before we could even get the word out, he says, oh, you guys are probably hear about Eric. And I said, eric who said, eric Rudolph. And Tom and I are dumbfounded at this point. We just kind of looked at each other, and we said, well, why would you think we're here about Eric Rudolph? And he said, well, because he's all over the news. Tom and I were like, what? And he said, and if you want to come in, there's a press conference going on right now.

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You can watch.

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I'm John Wolzak, host of the new podcast missing in Arizona.

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And I'm Robert Fisher, one of the most wanted men in the world.

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We cloned his voice using AI in 2001.

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Police say I killed my family. First mom, then the kids, and rigged.

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My house to explode in a quiet suburb.

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This is the Beverly hills of the valley.

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Before escaping into the wilderness, there was.

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Sleet and hail and snow coming down.

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I found my wife's suv right on the reservation boundary, and my dog flew.

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All I could think of is trying.

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To sniper me out of some tree, but not me.

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Police believe he is alive and hiding somewhere.

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For two years, they won't tell you anything. I've traveled the nation. I'm going down in the cave, tracking down clues.

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They were thinking that I picked him up and took him somewhere.

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Keep asking me this. I'm gonna call the police and have you removed.

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Searching for Robert Fisher, one of the.

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Most dangerous fugitives in the world.

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Do you recognize my voice?

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Join an exploding house, the Hunt family. Annihilation today, and a disappearing act. Listen to missing in Arizona every Wednesday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your favorite shows.

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Hi, it's Andrea Gunning, host of Betrayal. I'm excited to announce that the Betrayal podcast is expanding. We are going to be releasing episodes weekly every Thursday. Each week, you'll hear brand new stories, firsthand accounts of shocking deception, broken trust, and the trail of destruction left behind. Stories about regaining a sense of safety, a handle on reality after your entire world is flipped upside down from unbelievable romantic betrayals.

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The love that was so real for me was always just a game for him.

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To betrayals in your own family.

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When I think about my dad. Oh, well, he is a sociopath.

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Financial betrayal. This is not even the part where he steals millions of dollars and life or death deceptions.

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She's practicing how she's gonna cry when the police calls her after they kill.

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Me, listen to betrayal weekly on the iHeartradio app Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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We have issued the warrant for a mister Eric Robert Rudolph. This is a material witness warrant, and no one should jump to any conclusions about the fact that we are looking to question Mister, Mister Rudolph.

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No one told us there was a press conference coming and that they were just going to send that out to all the airwaves. And we were upset. You know, everything was, hey, this is, this is confidential. We don't want to spook him. We're trying to find out where he's living without letting everybody know why.

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No one could have known at the time, but that press conference could have very well been responsible for what would become years of searching.

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We further talked to Randy, saying, okay, do you have a phone? Do you have an address for him? Where is he living? And that's when Randy said, I don't have a specific address, but I have a feeling or a hunch that he's in Murphy, North Carolina, which was kind of on the border of Tennessee and North Carolina. And so Tom had a real good relationship with the sheriff of Cherokee County, Jack Thompson. So he called Jack, and he said, well, I'll go back into the office. I'll run some records checks and see if I can find out anything for Eric Rudolph. So we started heading there, and Tom called Sheriff Thompson again. And the sheriff said, yeah, I've got electricity and water records that he's renting a trailer here on Murphy, and it's current. So he says, and I can run out there right now, Jim. And I said, no, sheriff, let us get there. Let us do this approach to him tactically. If he's the guy that committed a bombing, there's several reasons why I didn't want Sheriff Jack Thompson just go up and knock on his front door. And so it was decided that John and I would put our tax gear on, and Tom Fry would drive us in his car to the end of the driveway that goes to his trailer.

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We make a tactical approach up the driveway. It was several hundred yards in before we even saw the trailer. The lights were on, which I thought, that's a great sign, but there's like a parking space next to the trailer. No truck. John, just watch the road while I do a 360 around the trailer. Make sure the truck wasn't parked behind the trailer like he was hiding it and or see if he was visible within any of the windows as I went around the trailer. So I did that no truck behind the trailer and no one home. That was the offshoot moment is like, you know, we'd hoped he'd been there. So we sat up in the woods all night, waiting for Eric to come home. They kept the surveillance of the trailer for three more days, but at that point, he was gone. You know, there was just no idea where it could have been. It was apparent that he'd left in a hurry. He had over $1,000 in $100 bills taped behind a picture in the wall of his bedroom. So he didn't stop to take that. You know, this was January in western North Carolina.

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It was cold, and when I first got to the trailer, I noticed that the screen door was shut, but the front door was wide open. You know, I mean, you're just losing heat the way that indicated to me. So based upon other things, I think he just got out of there as quick as he could.

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Next time on Flashpoint.

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Yeah. The FBI come to my dad's house and asked him where the cage was. My dad said, I ain't gonna tell you a damn thing.

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Right?

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They said, he said, if Rudolph come to my porch right now, I'd feed you. Everybody helped him. Mm hmm. To me, he didn't do it.

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Hi, it's Andrea Gunning, the host of Betrayal. I'm excited to announce that the Betrayal podcast is expanding. We are going to be releasing episodes weekly every Thursday. Each week, you'll hear brand new stories, firsthand accounts of shocking deception, broken trust, and the trail of destruction left behind. Listen to betrayal weekly on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.