
<p>The Olympics explode on a July night in 1996. The largest pipe bomb the country has ever seen. A string of bombings shakes Atlanta for the next year.</p><p>Thousands of photos and videos produce one blurry image of the attacker, a photo so grainy the FBI called him “Blob Man.” Agents zero in on the wrong man, the media follows suit, and the real bomber slips away.</p><p>Until Birmingham. In Alabama, the Blob Man finally makes a misstep. He detonates another bomb, but this time someone sees something. A college student asks himself a question: <em>Why, when everyone else is rushing to see what happened, is that man running away?</em></p><p>That curious student breaks open what was then the largest manhunt in U.S. history: the search for Eric Robert Rudolph. </p><p>Years pass. No trace. Does he have help? Is he planning more attacks?</p><p>In <em>American Shrapnel</em>, the latest podcast from the Murrow-winning Alabama Media Group, join 2x Pulitzer Prize winner John Archibald and awa