The Atlanta Child Murders: Wayne Williams and the Night the Splash Changed Everything
For nearly two years, children and young men disappeared from Atlanta’s streets. Most were Black boys between the ages of 7 and 17. Their bodies were found strangled and dumped in woods, vacant lots, and the Chattahoochee River. Parents stopped letting kids walk alone. The city lived in fear.
Then, at 2:52 a.m. on May 22, 1981, a police stakeout on a bridge heard a loud splash. Minutes later, officers pulled over 23-year-old Wayne Williams. Two days after that, another body surfaced downstream.
In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, host Alexander’s Lawson reconstructs the Atlanta Child…
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