The FBI has returned Richard Jewell's guns and other belongings and is no longer keeping tabs on him, indicating he is close to being exonerated in the Olympic Park bombing, his lawyers said.
Among items returned Tuesday were his Disney videos, Tupperware and gun collection.Jewell, the only publicly identified suspect in the July 27 bombing, was questioned Sunday by state and federal investigators for six hours.
"I think this interview is a step with closure in mind," Jewell's lawyer, Lin Wood, said Tuesday. "Now we hope they will indicate in some public fashion that he is no longer a subject or a target."
It was Jewell's first interrogation since July 30, three days after the early morning bomb blast killed one woman and injured 111 people at Centennial Olympic Park in downtown Atlanta.
Spokesmen for the FBI, Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Attorney's Office in Atlanta declined to comment.
Also Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Owen Forrester heard arguments from Jewell's lawyers and news media outlets to unseal the FBI affidavits used to obtain search warrants against Jewell.
Forrester did not rule immediately.