Being Mother to a Murderer

USA Today is running a series this week about Eric Rudoplh, the (among other things) Atlanta Olympic bomber who killed two, wounded many others, and then eluded authorities for years. The source material for the series are the hundreds of letters Rudolph has sent to his mother since he was captured. Yesterday's installment was particularly interesting, as it focused not on Rudolph himself, but his mother and how she struggles to come to terms with what her son has become. Unlike many family members, she does not persist in believing her son is innocent. That only makes her life now more difficult, as she plumbs the depths of her son's past for some clue as to what turned him into a home-grown terrorist. Today's installment detail's Rudolph's means of avoiding capture for so long.