The 1996 Olympic bombing in Atlanta was the focus of a Clint Eastwood movie, a detailed book and a TV series, all in the 2019-2020 time period. Nearly five years later, CNN and Atlanta-based Tenderfoot TV both tackle the subject again.

Tenderfoot, the podcast company best known for its “Up and Vanished” series, recently debuted the first episodes of “Flashpoint,” a podcast exploring the entire arc of Eric Rudolph’s terrorist acts and the victims he left behind. He not only bombed Centennial Olympic Park but also two abortion clinics and a lesbian bar. He then hid in the North Carolina woods for five years as a fugitive before being captured in 2003.

Rudolph pleaded guilty in 2005 to the bombings and received four life sentences without the possibility of parole and is now at the ADX Florence supermax prison in Colorado, the same place that houses Oklahoma City bomber Terry Nichols and the Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

CNN’s series “How It Really Happened,” hosted by actor Jesse L. Martin, recently premiered two episodes on the same topic. The show uses vintage CNN footage from the nine-year period when the story unfolded.

“How It Really Happened” focuses more heavily than the podcast on the initial hunt for the bomber and features FBI, Georgia Bureau of Investigation, and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives investigators providing commentary and insight.

The first episode spends time on Richard Jewell, a security guard who first saw Rudolph’s purposely abandoned backpack and who saved lives by ensuring fewer people were near the bomb when it went off. But the FBI targeted him as suspect, which leaked to the press, who followed him for 88 days until the FBI deemed him innocent. Jewell died in 2007 but his attorney Watson Bryant provided his perspective in the episode.

The second CNN episode traces the subsequent bombings and the eventual capture of Rudolph. Kitty Pilgrim — now a consultant on the subjects of women, peace and security — covered the Alabama abortion clinic bombing for CNN in 1997 and the often frustrating hunt for Rudolph.

“He kind of faded into the mist,” she said in a recent interview. “There was so much speculation where he could have gone. We always felt he melted into the local community. We encountered many sympathetic people to his cause” in the rural mountains of North Carolina.

The host of the “Flashpoint” podcast Cole Locascio has a personal connection to one of the bombings, but in a recent interview didn’t want to reveal exactly what that was. (He makes it known by the end of the second episode.)

“It’s a story deeply rooted in me,” said Locascio, who was born less than a year after the initial bombing. “It’s a story about paradox. None of it really lives in the black and white, especially when it comes to my story. All of it very much lives in the gray. There is a unique perspective to gain from it.”

With this podcast, Locascio wanted to shed light not only on Rudolph’s motivations but also the impact his bombings had on its many victims. And he felt the audio medium allowed him to get more insight and detail from his subjects than if he had done this for TV. “It was just me and my interview subject in my tiny recording studio,” he said.

Vince Velazquez, a retired Atlanta detective, provided his voice in the podcast as well. He was a new police officer who happened to be working near centennial park when the bomb exploded and was knocked off his feet.

He also lived a few blocks from the Sandy Springs, Georgia, abortion clinic and heard those bombs go off six months later. “It shook my windows,” he said in a recent interview.