Woman seeks $1 million reward for Olympic park bomber conviction

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A Douglasville, Georgia, woman wants to claim the one (m) million-dollar reward offered for the capture and conviction of now-imprisoned serial bomber Eric Rudolph.

Tammy Stoner says she's the only Atlanta witness who put Rudolph at one of the crime scenes connected with the 1996 bombing at Centennial Olympic Park.

The 47-year-old's lawyer, Steven Jampol has sent a written request for the reward money to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Atlanta.

Rudolph was captured in May 2003, pleaded guilty in four bombings, and is now in federal prison serving four life terms.

Alice Hawthorne was killed and 111 others were injured in the Olympic Park blast that Rudolph later said he detonated because he wanted to force the cancellation of the Games and "confound, anger and embarrass" the federal government for sanctioning abortion.

Information on how many others have sought the reward money was NOT available.

Officials from the U.S. Attorney's Office and the F-B-I declined to comment on Stoner's claim.

The local policeman who apprehended Rudolph in North Carolina is NOT eligible to claim the reward because he works in law enforcement.

Stoner says two days after the bombing, she gave federal investigators a description of a suspicious man who she later identified as Rudolph.

She says she remained silent for years because she was told she could be called as a witness in Rudolph's federal trial and didn't want to jeopardize the case.

She wants to give 75 percent of the reward money to the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help with Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.

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