Olympic blast linked to later explosions

A serial bomber at work?

ATLANTA (CNN) -- Investigators hope they have it right this time.

Steel plates from the bomb that exploded in Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park have been linked to Eric Robert Rudolph, the suspect in the January 29, 1998, bombing of an Alabama women's clinic that performs abortions, sources have told CNN.

Rudolph has also been linked to the January 1997 bombing of an Atlanta-area women's clinic. According to federal sources, nails used as shrapnel in that attack match nails found in a North Carolina storage shed that Rudolph rented.

Investigators have hypothesized that a serial bomber could be responsible for all three of these blasts and the 1997 bombing of an Atlanta nightclub. The plates and nails used in some of these bombs could be the keys to solving all four attacks.

Or they could be another wrong turn. Remember Richard Jewell?

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