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American Shrapnel

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    August 20, 2025 · 40 min

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  • Scar Tissue

    August 20, 2025 · 34 min

    Memrie Cresswell stood up to tuck in her shirt as a bomb exploded at the Otherside lounge. It saved her life. Time after time luck was the thing that kept Rudolph’s body count from soaring. As he desperately tries to kill more, his bombs…

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  • The Funnel Cloud

    August 20, 2025 · 39 min

    What radicalized Eric Rudolph?  Family. Neighbors. Timothy McVeigh. But there’s more. Come on a whirlwind ride through a brazen armored car robbery, an antisemitic preacher who once considered the bomber a protege, the U.S. Army, and a…

  • A Bomber in Search of a Target

    July 30, 2025 · 39 min

    Eric Rudolph was a chameleon. A Bible thumper and a skilled pot grower, a Holocaust denier and an avid reader.  Stories from family and friends reveal a dangerous, contradictory man. And his secrets. Host, Writer: Becca Andrews Host…

  • Run, Rudolph, Run

    July 30, 2025 · 40 min

    Agents descend on Murphy, N.C. only to find a Goldilocks scene. The stove is still warm but the inhabitant is gone. Eric Rudolph disappears in the frenzy. Tales emerge of a severed hand, a would-be Rambo, and a crowd cheering “Run Rudolph…

  • The Blob Man

    July 30, 2025 · 43 min

    An explosion at the ‘96 Olympics, and the bomber slips away. Two more bombs. A photo of the suspect so grainy the FBI called him “Blob Man.” Then, a college student sees a suspicious man leaving the scene of yet another bomb. Follow the…

  • American Shrapnel Trailer

    June 25, 2025 · 3 min

    The Olympics explode on a July night in 1996. The largest pipe bomb the country has ever seen. A string of bombings shakes Atlanta for the next year. Thousands of photos and videos produce one blurry image of the attacker, a photo so…

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The Olympics explode on a July night in 1996. The largest pipe bomb the country has ever seen. A string of bombings shakes Atlanta for the next year. Thousands of photos and videos produce one blurry image of the attacker, a photo so grainy the FBI called him “Blob Man.” Agents zero in on the wrong man, the media follows suit, and the real bomber slips away. Until Birmingham. In Alabama, the Blob Man finally makes a misstep. He detonates another bomb, but this time someone sees something. A college student asks himself a question: Why, when everyone else is rushing to see what happened, is that man running away? That curious student breaks open what was then the largest manhunt in U.S. history: the search for Eric Robert Rudolph.  Years pass. No trace. Does he have help? Is he planning more attacks? In American Shrapnel, the latest podcast from the Murrow-winning Alabama Media Group, join 2x Pulitzer Prize winner John Archibald and award-winning journalist Becca Andrews as they track the path of destruction — from the bombings, through the manhunt, and back to the twisted politics that fueled it. You’ll hear the stories of survivors, radicals and heroes. This isn’t a story of the past. The anger that fueled it has only grown stronger today.