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	Atlanta child murders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Atlanta child murders, known locally simply as the "missing and murdered children case", were a series of murders committed in Atlanta, Georgia, beginning in 1979.
		The murders of Edward Smith and Alfred Evans, which were just two days apart, began the series of murders committed by the Atlanta Child Killer.
		The murders continued into 1981, and the first known victim in the new year was Lubie Geter, who disappeared on January 3.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Atlanta_Child_Murders (1086 words)

	Conviction challenged in Atlanta child murders \| www.azstarnet.com ®
		ATLANTA — Lawyers for convicted killer Wayne Williams, blamed for the murders of two dozen boys and young men in the Atlanta area during the 1970s and '80s, are casting suspicion on a child molester they say lived or worked near where many of the bodies were found.
		A spokeswoman for the state Attorney General's Office, Kelley Jackson, declined to comment on the defense allegations or on whether her office would oppose the release of the materials the defense is seeking.
		Evidence of a pattern of conduct in 12 of the murders was used in his trial.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/133034 (514 words)

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		Child murder in Atlanta In 1978, Larry Flynt was prosecuted in the State of Georgia for violation of the pornography laws; it is here that he was shot, receiving a crippling injury which has confined him to a wheelchair.
		In 1979, Atlanta was known as the murder capital of the U.S., with 231 homicides, according to FBI statistics.
		It is not credible that all of the murdered children had been holding back money, since in that event some would have resisted capture; furthermore, it should not have taken almost 30 murders to convince the young people, most of whom knew each other, of the dangers of scamming.
	www.textfiles.com /occult/OTO/atlanta.txt (7538 words)

	The Atlanta Child Murders - Movie Info - Moviefone
		Synopsis: The Atlanta Child Murders is a five-hour, two-part dramatization of one of the most tragic and controversial homicide cases of the past twenty years.
		"The Atlanta Child Murders" (1985) (mini) The Atlanta Child Murders, a 1985 CBS mini series of the week is a good movie, but not an accurate portrayal of the political establishment of this still...
		The Atlanta Child Murders is a five-hour, two-part dramatization of one of the most tragic and...
	movies.aol.com /movie/the-atlanta-child-murders/1084726/main (164 words)

	The Goals of a Terrorist Group
		Found guilty of two murders in 1982, Wayne B. Williams is basing his current appeal on allegations that the prosecution and police withheld a vast amount of evidence indicating the KKK may have been responsible for the murders.
		During the trial, prosecuting attorneys introduced evidence of 10 child murders as part of a pattern, asserting that each one was so similar that the one person must have committed them all.
		First, the child was only nine years old (two years younger than the group victims mean age of 11.3); second, his body was concealed in an abandoned building; and third, he was last seen on a Sunday.
	impiousdigest.com /atlanta_fbi_ATKID.htm (2558 words)

	Famous Atlanta Child Murders & Wayne Williams -- the Crime Library - The Crime library
		Atlanta's business community was alarmed at the spiraling crime rate, fearful that businesses would flee the city and conventions would find safer cities for their meetings.
		This situation reached a crisis level as a series of murders of fl children and teenagers began to emerge, throwing an unwelcome spotlight on the entire city.
		The murders, believed at that time, to be the work of a racist white group did nothing to recommend the city to tourists and new business opportunities.
	www.crimelibrary.com /serial_killers/predators/williams/index_1.html (693 words)

	40. The Atlanta Murders
		As the murders continued, some who were familiar with the details of the crimes thought that they were the work of more than one killer.
		As for some of the other victims, the FBI announced in April 1981 that four of the murders had been "sunstantially solved." Agent Michael Twibell confirmed to reporters that some of the children had been slain by their parents.
		On June 21 he was arrested and shortly thereafter was indicted for the murders of Cater and Jimmy Payne, 22 -- in spite of reluctance on the part of Fulton County District Attorney Lewis Slaton to prosecute with only circumstantial evidence.
	eightiesclub.tripod.com /id326.htm (1609 words)

	TayariJones.com \| Tayari's Blog: More on the Atlanta Child Murders
		The Atlanta child murders began just before I started fifth grade, when someone killed two African-American boys, Edward Hope Smith and Alfred Evans, and left their bodies in a vacant lot.
		But it cannot explain away the silence in my own community, the hush in southwest Atlanta, the home of many of the murdered children, the area of the city where many of those whose lives were directly touched still reside.
		The arrest and conviction of Williams for the murders of two adults, and the subsequent closing of the children's cases, was neither balm nor tincture.
	www.tayarijones.com /blog/archives/2005/05/more_on_the_atl.html (3635 words)

	Some cases from 'Atlanta child murders' to be reopened \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		ATLANTA – For 22 years, Louis Graham was bothered by the belief that the wrong man was sent to prison for the infamous "Atlanta child murders," which terrorized the area in the early 1980s.
		Although the cases were dubbed "missing and murdered children," the victims ranged in age from 8 to 27.
		Without new evidence that disproves Williams' guilt, the case is closed as far as Fulton County is concerned, said Erik Friedly, a spokesman for the Fulton County District Attorney's Office.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050512/news_1n12atlanta.html (476 words)

	AIM Report - February B, 1985
		"The Atlanta Child Murders" was described by the author of the screenplay, Abby Mann, as "a crusade." Mann's purpose, which was embraced by CBS, was to show that Wayne Williams, the convicted murderer of two of the 29 fl children whose deaths so shocked the nation in the first half of 1981, was innocent.
		While "The Atlanta Child Murders" was a production of the CBS entertainment division, it has a similarity to "The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception." the 90- minute documentary that accused Gen. William C. Westmoreland of fudging intelligence figures in Vietnam.
		In 1975, NBC aired "Guilty or Innocent: The Sam Shepard Murder Case." The Cleveland Plain Dealer denounced it for impugning the integrity of the judge in the case, saying it was completely unfair to the State of Ohio and the memory of Marilyn Shepard.
	www.aim.org /publications/aim_report/1985/02b.html (3891 words)

	GeorgiaInfo - Carl Vinson Institute of Government
		The Atlanta child murders continued through the spring, until on May 22 police staking out a bridge on Cobb Drive heard a car stop on the bridge, then a splash in the water.
		Though he was only charged with the murders of the final two victims; he was suspected of being the person responsible for all of the Atlanta child murders from 1979-1981.
		Andrew Young was elected mayor of Atlanta; he would be re-elected to the same position in 1985.
	www.cviog.uga.edu /Projects/gainfo/1981.htm (460 words)

	wsbradio.com: News Atlanta Child Murders: Documents Sought on Child Molester
		ATLANTA (AP) Lawyers for convicted killer Wayne Williams, blamed for the murder of two dozen boys and young men in the late 1970s and early '80s, are seeking police documents about a child molester who lived in the area.
		Williams was convicted in 1982 of murdering Jimmy Ray Payne, 21, and Nathaniel Cater, 27, and sentenced to two consecutive life terms.
		He has maintained that Atlanta officials covered up evidence of Ku Klux Klan involvement in the killings to avoid a race war in the city, a claim investigators have denied.
	wsbradio.com /news/060906childmurders11a.html (429 words)

	Atlanta Child Murders FBI Files
		Between 1979 and 1981 the disappearances and murders of 30 children and young adults in Atlanta, Georgia were investigated by a task force that believed the crimes were linked.
		At the time many, including the mayor of Atlanta, believed the FBI was not giving enough assistance in the case.
		On November 6, 1980, the Attorney General directed the FBI to participate in the investigation of the missing and murdered children.
	www.paperlessarchives.com /atkid.html (212 words)

	FTR-164 The Atlanta Child Murders (One 30-minute segment) $5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		From July of 1979 through June of 1981, a string of murders of African-American youths terrorized Atlanta's fl population.
		Blamed on Wayne Williams, a "lone nut" fl man who was convicted of the murders, the killings have receded in the public consciousness in the two decades since they began.
		The Sanders connection was called to the attention of the Atlanta police by a reliable informant.
	www.spitfirelist.com /f164.html (425 words)

	"The Atlanta Child Murders" (1985) (mini) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Plot Summary: The city of Atlanta, Georgia, is terrorized by a rash of child murders occurring in its fl community...
		from Decatur, Ga The Atlanta Child Murders, a 1985 CBS mini series of the week is a good movie, but not an accurate portrayal of the political establishment of this still growing city.
		Mann attempted not to offend the politicians such as Former Governor Busby and Former Mayor Maynard Jackson whom were both in office at the time of the child murders and whom had the most to lose politically if these murders was not quickly solved.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0088750 (497 words)

	Movie Info for The Atlanta Child Murders on MSN Movies
		The Atlanta Child Murders is a five-hour, two-part dramatization of one of the most tragic and controversial homicide cases of the past twenty years.
		The second part of the five-hour TV docudrama The Atlanta Child Murders originally aired February 12, 1985.
		Mann may have felt concerning Williams' guilt or innocence, the fact remains that the murders and disappearances stopped cold once Williams was in custody (as of this writing, Williams persists in his efforts to reopen the case, claiming that he was framed by the white power structure).
	movies.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=83532 (343 words)

	Appeal rejected in Atlanta child murders - Boston.com
		A federal judge has rejected an appeal by an inmate who was blamed in a string of child murders and disappearances 25 years ago.
		ATLANTA --A federal judge has rejected an appeal by an inmate who was blamed in a string of child murders and disappearances 25 years ago.
		Wayne Williams, who was convicted of killing two men in 1982 and is serving life in prison, claimed that prosecutors withheld critical evidence that could have led to an acquittal.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2006/02/08/appeal_rejected_in_atlanta_child_murders?mode=PF (226 words)

	Atlanta Child Murders
		Atlanta Police form a task force to investigate and analyze the evidence in the string of child murders that has occurred in the city
		Atlanta Public Safety Commissioner Lee Brown clears the man identified by CORE Director Ray Innis as a suspect in the Atlanta Child Murders
		Controversial fiber evidence introduced by Lewis Slayton in the Wayne Williams Atlanta Child Murders Trial is ruled admissible by Judge Clarence Cooper.
	www.ourgeorgiahistory.com /chronpop/1277 (562 words)

	FOXNews.com - Victims' Families Welcome New Look at Atlanta Child Killings - U.S. & World
		ATLANTA — Some relatives of children who were killed in a series of slayings that terrorized the Atlanta area more than 20 years ago believe the wrong man was blamed for most of the killings, and they are hopeful a new investigation will uncover the real culprit.
		Williams was blamed for 24 of the murders, and evidence of a pattern of conduct in 12 of the murders was used against him at his trial.
		Williams, who is fl, has contended that he was framed and that Atlanta officials covered up evidence that the KKK was involved in the killings to avoid a race war in the city.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,156042,00.html (803 words)

	Amazon.com: Leaving Atlanta: Books: Tayari Jones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Based on the Atlanta child murders of 1979-1980, this wrenching debut novel is told from the perspective of three Atlanta fifth-graders living in the midst of the crisis.
		Jones, who was a child herself in Atlanta in the late '70s and early '80s, weaves her tale with consummate ease, shifting from third to second to first person as she switches narrators.
		Narrated in succession by three extremely perceptive (though at times almost too precocious) fifth graders, this first novel engagingly conveys the paranoia and fear that dominated the African American community in Atlanta during the 1979 child murders, a time when almost two dozen fl children were abducted and murdered, their corpses abandoned in the countryside.
	www.amazon.com /Leaving-Atlanta-Tayari-Jones/dp/0446528307 (1566 words)

	TIME.com: Witness for the Defense the Atlanta Child Murders, Cbs, Feb. 10 and 12, 8 p.m. E.S.T. -- Feb. 11, 1985 -- ...
		TIME.com: Witness for the Defense the Atlanta Child Murders, Cbs, Feb. 10 and 12, 8 p.m.
		Witness for the Defense the Atlanta Child Murders, Cbs, Feb. 10 and 12, 8 p.m.
		The Atlanta Child Murders, written and co- produced by Abby Mann (Judgment at Nuremberg, King), unearths no significant new evidence; it merely sifts through the record to reconstruct the defense's case.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,960308,00.html (738 words)

	Wayne Williams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In 1979-1981 Atlanta was in fear of what they were calling the "Atlanta Child Murders." Wayne Williams, known as a sexual serial killer.
		Some even said that it was the work of a deranged mother who had lost her own child.
		He was known as a "scanner freak," because he would listen to the police scanner and rush to the scenes of spectacular accidents and disasters.
	www.geocities.com /TimesSquare/Arcade/7187/child.htm (315 words)

	Wayne Williams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wayne Bertram Williams (born May 27, 1958) was identified as the key suspect in the Atlanta Child Murders that occurred between 1979 and 1981, and in January 1982, he was found guilty of the murder of two adult men.
		After his conviction, the Atlanta police declared an additional 22 of the 29 child murders solved.
		However, the authorities in neighboring Fulton County, Georgia, where the majority of the murders occurred, have not moved to reopen the cases under their jurisdiction.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wayne_Williams (405 words)

	wsbradio.com: News Atlanta Child Murders Case Officially Reopened
		Williams was convicted of killing two men, ages 21 and 27, and police essentially considered most of the remaining murder cases "administratively solved" though Williams was not tried for those murders.
		The head of the squad, Sgt. Dave Fonseca, was growing up in New Jersey during the time of the child murders.
		Whatley tells WSB Williams is responding positively to news the Atlanta Child Murders are being re-investigated.
	wsbradio.com /news/051105williams.html (516 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The cases were initially linked to Wayne Williams, the only person ever charged in the Atlanta Child Murders of 1979 to 1981.
		Graham investigated four of the child murders while serving as the assistant police chief in Fulton County at the time of the killings.
		The parents of some of the murdered children joined Graham at the news conference, all of them with praise for his decision to review their cases.
	www.11alive.com /news/news_article.aspx?storyid=62952 (849 words)

	TayariJones.com \| Tayari's Blog: The Atlanta Child Murders, Case Re-Opened
		It's uncomfortable ground for me. On the one hand, the reason I wrote Leaving Atlanta in the first place is that I wanted to make a record of what life was like for those of us who grew up in Atlanta at that time.
		i am a white male from southern illinois an i remember the atlanta murder cases imoved to atlanta in 1986 an i still to this day think wayne williams is innocent.
		The homosexual angle is a political bombshell for a tolerant city like Atlanta, so if DeKalb Chief Louis Graham really wants to get to the bottom of this, he's gonna have to ruffle some really sensitive political and social feathers.
	www.tayarijones.com /blog/archives/2005/05/the_atlanta_chi.html (1498 words)

	The Atlanta Child Murders For nearly two years, the headlines in Atlanta reverberated with stories of unspeakable ...
		The Atlanta Child Murders For nearly two years, the headlines in Atlanta reverberated with stories of unspeakable terror and loss--the city's African American children were disappearing.
		In THE ATLANTA CHILD MURDERS, some lawyers claim that the prosecution withheld evidence that white supremacists may have been involved in some of the murders, while investigators counter that the Klan investigation was a dead-end and Williams is the real killer.
		Hear from convicted killer Wayne Williams, who was identified by authorities as the man behind one of the worst murder sprees in American history.
	www.criminalprofiling.com /The-Atlanta-Child-Murders_s243.html (226 words)

	Leaving Atlanta
		Tayari Jones enters the literary scene with Leaving Atlanta, a novel that takes place in 1979 Atlanta, Georgia during what came to be known as the Atlanta Child Murders.
		Leaving Atlanta focuses on three children in the same fifth grade class at the Oglethorpe Elementary School.
		Leaving Atlanta is a highly impressive, striking fictional debut, laced with a graceful elegance and an ear on the hearts of its characters!
	reviews.aalbc.com /leavingatlanta.htm (660 words)

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