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...First Blood," John Rambo is finally lured out of the woods by his former commander. Now, the man who partly inspired the "Rambo" character hopes to do the same for fugitive accused bomber Eric Robert Rudolph. Retired Green Beret colonel James "Bo" Gritz, the most decorated soldier in American history and a leader of the right-wing "patriot" movement, plans to enter the backwoods of Macon County, N.C., on August 15, hoping to bring Rudolph in safely...
...Gritz, who has led a number of unofficial guerrilla missions into Vietnam in search of U.S. POWs, hopes to coax Rudolph to surrender by getting him a lawyer and putting the FBI's $1 million reward into a defense fund, the Charlotte Observer reports. He has previously helped mediate the Ruby Ridge and Montana Freemen standoffs. Federal agents searching for Rudolph don't plan to cooperate with Gritz, but they won't order him out of the area either -- after six frustrating months searching for Rudolph, they could use any help they...
During that meeting, which lasted about 30 minutes on Tuesday, July 7, Nordmann told police that Rudolph also tried to convince him he was innocent. The next day Nordmann went to his store and stayed the night there because he was worried about the encounter with Rudolph and about returning home. While he was gone, police believe Rudolph returned to Nordmann's house either late that night or Thursday and took 50 to 75 lbs. of food, including canned green beans, beets, corn, tuna fish, raisins and a large bag of wheat bran. He carried it away in Nordmann...
...enticements and entrapments have worked: a place on the FBI's ten-most-wanted list and a manhunt stretching as far as Denver have produced nothing. A $1 million reward has found no takers. Until two weeks ago, Rudolph had not been seen since the day after the bombing, when he rented the video Kull the Conqueror, stocked up on raisins, trail mix and batteries and bought $11 worth of burgers and fries from the Burger King in his hometown of Murphy, N.C. The trail had gone stone cold. And then on July 11, George Nordmann, 71, owner...
Nordmann, who had known Rudolph from years ago, told authorities that the suspect's appearance has changed considerably. Sporting a beard and a ponytail and dressed in a camouflage outfit and gloves, Rudolph reportedly told Nordmann, "Look at me. I look like a hippie." He also told Nordmann that he had lost weight, pulling on his baggy trousers to demonstrate how he'd lost about six inches off his waistline. "Being on the run like this, I'm starving to death," he reportedly said, telling Nordmann he had been surviving on green beans and oatmeal...