A friend told me several years ago that he'd stumbled onto powerful evidence of large numbers of child abductions in Arizona.
Perhaps related, the Atlanta Child Murders case from twenty years ago has never seemed 'resolved' to me; whether convicted Wayne Williams had anything to do with those murders or not, I always felt sure we'd never gotten "the whole story" about that.
Apparently the new DeKalb County Police Chief thinks so, too. :)
So who, exactly, got away...?
There's no telling where this might lead. I think we may want to stay alert for additional stories from other States.
Excerpted from an article in the Atlanta Daily World:
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Child Killing Cases Reopened
By:HARRY R. WEBER, Associated Press Writer
May 13, 2005
A police chief has reopened an investigation into four of the child slayings that terrorized the Atlanta area more than two decades ago, saying he believes the man suspected in most of the killings is innocent.
Altogether, 29 people _ all of them black, most of them boys _ were killed in the Atlanta area between 1979 and 1981.
Wayne Williams, 47, is serving a life sentence for the murders of two young men. After his conviction, authorities blamed him for 22 of the other slayings but never charged him.
Dekalb County Police Chief Louis Graham said he plans to take another look at the slayings of four boys between February and May 1981. Graham, who became chief last year, said he took an interest in revisiting the cases after looking through some old news clippings.
``After Wayne Williams was arrested, there was this decision by some people to close the cases, and I have never been one to espouse that kind of investigation or paint that kind of broad brush,'' Graham told The Associated Press. ``I have never believed that he did anything.''
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