Mom believes Rudolph is innocent

Posted Monday, June 2, 2003 - 2:04 am


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SARASOTA, Fla. — She listens to the news reports and studies the mug shot. Could that man really be her son?

"An anti-abortion crusader?" Patricia Rudolph chuckles, shaking her head. "He never ever spoke to me about abortion. Never ever."

Eric Robert Rudolph's mother, 75, believes he is innocent of killing two people and wounding more than 150 others in four bombings in Atlanta and Birmingham, Ala., from 1996 to 1998. And if she has any doubt, she said she will know when she sees him. "Eric never was a good liar," she said Sunday.

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