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Crime

Eric Rudolph Slept Here

How did the most wanted man in America, the serial bomber behind the Atlanta Olympics explosion, survive for five years in the North Carolina woods? And was he helped?

Bruce Barcott Outside Sep 2003 15min Permalink

Best Article Crime

A Thousand Pounds of Dynamite

In 1980, a bankrupt gambler came up with a plan to get his money back. He built an incredibly complex bomb, one that was impossible to defuse and that only he knew how to move, and snuck it into a Lake Tahoe casino with an extortion note demanding $3 million. Part of the plan worked. Part of it did not.

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Hear Higginbotham discuss this story on the Longform Podcast.

Adam Higginbotham The Atavist Magazine Jul 2014 1h25min Permalink

History Politics

Meet The Weather Underground’s Bomb Guru

What led to the 1970 explosion of a Greenwich Village townhouse, in which three members of the Weather Underground were killed, and what happened to the group after.

Excerpted from Days of Rage.

Bryan Burrough Vanity Fair Mar 2015 30min Permalink