Richard Jewell, accused Olympic Park bomber, dead at 44:
Nope, nobody remembered this guy after he was vilified by the media...
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| Meriwether County coroner Johnny Worley said Jewell's wife, Dana, discovered him unconscious at about 10:30 a.m. Worley said an autopsy would be performed by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to determine how Jewell died, but there was "no suspicion of foul play. "He had been having some pretty serious medical problems," Worley said. He said Jewell had been diagnosed with diabetes in February and had a couple of toes amputated. "He had been going downhill ever since," Worley said. Whitlock described Jewell as "a good officer. A go-getter." "You know how they say people live their work. Richard ate and drank his job. He loved it," Whitlock said. Jewell was initially lauded as a hero after a bomb went off on July 27, 1996, during an Olympic celebration in Atlanta. He called attention to the suspicious knapsack that held a bomb and helped evacuate the area. Days later, he became the FBI's chief suspect, as The Atlanta Journal Constitution and other media outlets reported. The FBI cleared Jewell of any wrongdoing. He was never charged with a crime. |
