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FROM OUR ARCHIVES: Atlanta’s Tragedy: An Update

A comprehensive study of the Atlanta Child Murders, and the arrest of Wayne Williams, from 1981
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Atlanta Child Murders: Who were the victims?
Atlanta Child Murders: Who were the victims?
Atlanta Child Murders: Who were the victims?
Atlanta Child Murders: Who were the victims?
Atlanta Child Murders: Who were the victims?
Atlanta Child Murders: Who were the victims?
Atlanta Child Murders: Who were the victims?
Atlanta Child Murders: Who were the victims?
Atlanta Child Murders: Who were the victims?
Atlanta Child Murders: Who were the victims?
Atlanta Child Murders: Who were the victims?
Atlanta Child Murders: Who were the victims?
Atlanta Child Murders: Who were the victims?
Atlanta Child Murders: Who were the victims?
Atlanta Child Murders: Who were the victims?
Atlanta Child Murders: Who were the victims?
Atlanta Child Murders: Who were the victims?
Atlanta Child Murders: Who were the victims?
Atlanta Child Murders: Who were the victims?
Atlanta Child Murders: Who were the victims?
Atlanta Child Murders: Who were the victims?
Atlanta Child Murders: Who were the victims?
Atlanta Child Murders: Who were the victims?
Atlanta Child Murders: Who were the victims?
Atlanta Child Murders: Who were the victims?
Atlanta Child Murders: Who were the victims?
Atlanta Child Murders: Who were the victims?
Atlanta Child Murders: Who were the victims?
Atlanta Child Murders: Who were the victims?
Atlanta Child Murders: Who were the victims?
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Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced March 21, 2019, that state and local authorities would take a fresh look at evidence in the cases of Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered Children. The AJC’s Joshua Sharpe reports that “police have made no commitment to actually reopen the decades-old investigation. Instead, the mayor and other officials said last week that the police department, the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation would gather evidence — such as DNA or fibers — still in their possession then determine if any of it can be retested with technologies that weren’t available in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when nearly 30 black children and young adults were killed.” HANDOUT
By Mandi Albright
June 18, 2021

Presented here, in full, is the special report “Atlanta’s Tragedy: An Update,” which ran in the combined June 28, 1981, Journal-Constitution Sunday edition. Included is the original front page story and the story package from the Perspective section.

READ THE ORIGINAL SPECIAL REPORT BELOW: To zoom in on the story, click the three bars at top right. Then click “Original Document (PDF).”

ONLINE EXCLUSIVES: Main story | Victim profiles | Case chronology | Interactive map | Complete coverage

About the Author

Mandi Albright writes the AJC's Deja News feature and is an online presentation specialist with the AJC's Digital Presentation team.

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