Richard Jewell, accused by the media in 1996 of being the prime
suspect the Atlanta Olympic Park bombing during that year’s
Olympic Games was found dead in his home in west Georgia. The
true perpetrator, Eric Robert Rudolph, would later bomb a gay
and lesbian nightclub, the Otherside Lounge also in Atlanta.
Rudolph also bombed two abortion clinics.  Jewell had been
working as a private security guard for the Centennial Park
during the Games and had discovered a pipe bomb in a backpack.
He alerted police, and helped to evacuate the area before it
went off.  The bomb exploded 13 minutes later, killing one woman
and injuring over one hundred others. A cameraman also died of a
heart attack while running to cover the incident. Jewel was
praised as a media hero for stopping what could have been an
even more disastrous event.  Praise quickly turned to hatred
when it emerged that Jewel was in fact the number one suspect
for the crime. Though he was neither arrested nor charged, the
papers and media crucified him publ