It starts with the largest pipe bomb in American history and ends in the biggest manhunt of the 20th century. But that’s just scratching the surface.

On July 30, Alabama Media Group will release “American Shrapnel,” an eight-part podcast series examining one of America’s most notorious domestic terrorists: Eric Robert Rudolph.

The Olympics explode on a July night in 1996. The largest pipe bomb the country has ever seen. A string of bombings shakes Atlanta for the next year.

Thousands of photos and videos produce one blurry image of the attacker, a photo so grainy the FBI called him “Blob Man.” Agents zero in on the wrong man, the media follows suit, and the real bomber slips away.

Until Birmingham. In Alabama, the Blob Man finally makes a misstep. He detonates another bomb, but this time someone sees something. A college student asks himself a question: Why, when everyone else is rushing to see what happened, is that man running away?

That curious student breaks open the search for Rudolph. But Rudolph disappears hundreds of miles away into the Nantahala Forest in North Carolina. Years pass. No trace. Does he have help? Is he planning more attacks?

Join two-time Pulitzer Prize winner John Archibald and award-winning journalist Becca Andrews as they track the path of destruction — from the bombings, through the manhunt, and back to the twisted politics that fueled it. You’ll hear the stories of survivors, radicals and unlikely heroes.

Archibald and Andrews spent three years combing through thousands of FBI files, speaking with survivors, witnesses and experts to to take listeners into the radicalization of the serial bomber Rudolph.

You’ll hear from family members, from the police officer who issued the BOLO and a rookie cop who made the surprising arrest, from the lawyers who argued both sides of the case, and, for the very first time, you’ll hear from the eyewitness who changed everything.

You’ll also hear about the people and forces that radicalized Rudolph, from the Pacific Northwest to the Carolina Mountains. This isn’t a story of the past. The anger that fueled it has only grown stronger today.

American Shrapnel, a series by Murrow-winning Alabama Media Group, will be available on all podcast platforms on July 30. Follow here on Apple Podcasts.