Bails Bondsmen/Bounty Hunters: The Case of Eric Rudolph
A part of being a bails bondsmen is re-capturing your client if they fail to show up for court. The summer of 1998 saw bounty hunters at work in both Utah and North Carolina when they were after three of the most wanted criminals on the FBI list.
The two men in Utah were hiding out in the canyons of Utah. According to the news stories these were among the biggest searches ever mounted making use of every possible high tech devices that proved to be useless when more often than not dead cow skeletons were what was being detected. The search in Utah was concentrated on Jason W. McVean and Alan L. Pilon, both wanted for killing police officer Dale Claxton who had stopped them for driving a stolen vehicle and who was subsequently shot when he approached the car.
On the other side of the country in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina a similar search was going on for another one of the FBI’s most
…show more content…
James (Bo) Gritz, a former Green Beret colonel, was the main bounty hunter in charge. Unfortunately the search was fruitless and the group headed by Gritz gave up and ordered his troops to prepare to break up their paramilitary camp near Andrews, N.C. At that time Rudolph was thought to be hiding in the Nantahala National Forest. He had a $1 million bounty on his head. It wasn’t until five years later on May 31, 2003 that Rudolph was taken back into custody.
Mr. Rudolph was believed to be hiding in the Nantahala National Forest, south of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. He has a $1 million bounty on his head. It wasn’t until May 31, 2003 that he was taken into custody. 10 years ago today—former FBI Top Ten Fugitive Eric Robert Rudolph was arrested while rummaging through a trash bin behind a rural grocery story in Murphy, North Carolina.