Overview

• Alabama Media Group launched "American Shrapnel" on July 30, revisiting Eric Robert Rudolph’s 1996–98 bombing spree through newly released archival material.
• For the first time listeners hear the Birmingham student whose eyewitness tip broke the largest manhunt of the 20th century.
• Episode 1 reconstructs the elusive “Blob Man” image from the Olympic Olympic Park bombing and the wrongful targeting of security guard Richard Jewell.
• Later chapters expose Rudolph’s extremist beliefs, including Holocaust denial, admiration for Timothy McVeigh and secret marijuana operations on federal land.
• The series examines investigative missteps and the years Rudolph spent evading capture in the Nantahala Forest to draw lessons for today’s counterterrorism efforts.