Timing of Calls May Clear Bomb Suspect

Richard Jewell could not have phoned a bomb threat to a 911 number if the times of two key telephone calls made just before the deadly July 27 blast at the Olympics are correct, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. A call warning that a bomb would explode at Centennial Olympic Park came at 12:58 a.m. But a call made by a police officer reporting Jewell’s finding of a knapsack containing the bomb was logged at 12:57 a.m. That one-minute gap could exonerate Jewell because the phone from which the 911 call originated is more than a four-minute brisk walk away.