Olympic Park bomber Eric Rudolph agrees to plead guilty

Olympic Park bomber Eric Rudolph agrees to plead guilty

After an anti-abortion extremist named Eric Rudolph bombed the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, a security guard named Richard Jewell was falsely accused of planning the attack. In reality, Jewell had simply discovered the bomb just before it was about to go off and quickly evacuated everyone in the immediate area — saving untold lives.⁠

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But the FBI was apparently convinced there was more to the story and investigated Jewell for an agonizing 88 days before finally clearing his name. Meanwhile, the media painted him as a wannabe cop who was desperate to be a hero. This allowed the real bomber — Rudolph — to not only get away scot-free but also to plot three other bombings.⁠

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Follow the link in our profile for the shocking story of the American terrorist who carried out at least four bombings — and then evaded the FBI for five years.⁠

Richard Allensworth Jewell (born Richard White;[1] December 17, 1962 – August 29, 2007) was an American security guard and law enforcement officer who alerted police during the Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. He discovered a backpack containing three pipe bombs on the park grounds and helped evacuate the area before the bomb exploded, saving many people from injury or death. For months afterward he was suspected of planting the bomb, leading to adverse publicity that "came to symbolize the excesses of law enforcement and the news media."

Initially hailed by the media as a hero, Jewell was soon considered a suspect by the FBI and local law enforcement based on psychological profiling. Though never charged, Jewell underwent what was described as a "trial by media", which took a toll on his personal and professional life. He was cleared as a suspect after 88 days of heavy public scrutiny. In 2005, Eric Rudolph confessed and pleaded guilty to that bombing and other attacks.

Jewell's life has been the subject of popular culture, including the 2019 film Richard Jewell and the ten-episode drama Deadly Games, the 2020 season of the anthology series

Jewell had been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in February 2007 and suffered kidney failure and other medical problems related to his diagnosis in the following months. His wife, Dana, found him dead on the floor of their bedroom when she came home from work on August 29, 2007; he was 44 years old. An autopsy found the cause of death to be severe heart disease with diabetes and related obesity complications as a contributing factor.

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