Search continues for suspected bomber Eric Rudolph

KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE - Federal authorities say they are prepared to scale up the search effort for fugitive Eric Rudolph if they get a solid lead on the suspected serial bomber&#39;s whereabouts. <br> <br> At its height, the search for Rudolph in the mountainous region in western North Carolina, just over the Tennessee border, included more than 200 federal agents. Since 2000, it has been scaled back to less than a handful of agents working out of a National Guard Armory just outside Murphy, N.C. <br> <br> But that doesn&#39;t mean the search is over, authorities say. <br> <br> ``If something occurs tomorrow, if there is an unexplained break-in in a cabin in the middle of nowhere, if food is missing, or a shower was used, we can have many people in the area,&#39;&#39; U.S. Marshal&#39;s office spokesman Patrick Crosby told The Knoxville News-Sentinel newspaper. <br> <br> The search for Rudolph gained intensity in January 1998, one day after the bombing of an abortion clinic in Birmingham. Ala. The FBI believes Rudolph returned to Murphy, bought a few things at a local store, drove his pickup truck a few hundred yards, abandoned it and vanished. <br> <br> Rudolph has been charged in the Birmingham bombing, as well as for planting two bombs at a gay bar in Atlanta in 1997, a double blast at an Atlanta office complex and the July 1996 Summer Olympics bombing in Atlanta&#39;s Centennial Olympic Park. Two people died in the series of attacks and more than 100 were injured. <br> <br> The FBI believes Rudolph is somewhere in the Nantahala National Forest, living on his own, breaking into vacant vacation cabins, stealing from local gardens. Locals believe he is getting some help. <br> <br> ``Nobody is going to turn him in,&#39;&#39; said Murphy resident Desmond Parker. ``Why, you wouldn&#39;t live past sundown to collect the reward. They&#39;d shoot you and drop you off in a hole before sundown.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> But no matter how Rudolph is currently avoiding authorities, officials say he will eventually be caught. <br> <br> ``It (the search) doesn&#39;t stop. No way does it ever stop, not when you got people and families at the Olympics hit by long nails designed to kill and maim,&#39;&#39; Crosby said. <br> <br> ``He killed people and sent nails into the heads of children. We will look for him forever.&#39;&#39;