The Atlanta Child Murders: A City Afraid, a Case Unsettled
Between 1979 and 1981, Black children, teenagers and young adults disappeared across Atlanta. As fear spread, grieving families organized searches, challenged city leaders and demanded that the cases be treated as a coordinated emergency.
In this special episode, Steph examines the victims, the community’s fight for answers and the controversial case against Wayne Williams.
Williams was convicted of murdering two adult men, Jimmy Ray Payne and Nathaniel Cater. He was never tried for the children’s murders, yet authorities attributed more than twenty additional deaths to him and closed those…
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