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Wayne Williams: Atlanta Child Murders

June 30, 2021 Atlanta - Airport travelers appreciate the exhibition of the Atlanta ChildrenÕs Memorial Portraits at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Wednesday, June 30, 2021. Hartsfield-Jackson Honors Atlanta Child Murder Victims with Portrait Art Exhibit ATLÕs award-winning art program is hosting the Atlanta ChildrenÕs Memorial Portraits exhibition from June 25 Ð Sept. 8, 2021. Selected from a competition of over 100 regional visual art professionals, artist Dwayne Mitchell was commissioned to create 30 portraits memorializing each victim of the Atlanta Child Murders. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
Art exhibit at Hartsfield-Jackson honors Atlanta Child Murder victims
June 1981 - A Volkswagen heads north into semi-rural Cobb County on the South Cobb Drive bridge over the Chattahoochee River. It was on this bridge that Wayne Williams was sighted the night of May 22 - the event that eventually led to his arrest in the murder of Nathaniel Cater.
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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
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Workers retrieve the body of Curtis Walker from South River in DeKalb County on March 6, 1981.
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Morris G. Redding headed up the Atlanta Police Department from 1982-90, leading the department when Atlanta hosted the Democratic National Convention in 1988.
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Renderings show the Atlanta Child Murder memorial wall and eternal flame that will sit at Atlanta City Hall. The memorial was approved by Atlanta City Council on Monday, Feb. 1, 2021. (Renderings by Gordon Huether Studio via City of Atlanta)
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Cobb County police and the Atlanta Task Force recover Nathaniel Cater’s body from the Chattahoochee River on May 24, 1981. AJC FILE PHOTO
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Casket containing Michael Cameron McIntosh, 23, the 25th victim in Atlanta?s string of slayings of young black is carried by members of the Guardian Angels and relatives during funeral services in Atlanta, Monday, April 27, 1981. His mother, Mrs. Hazel Matthews, third from left, follows the casket. (AP Phtoo/Sebo)
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Larry Howard worked for many years in the state crime lab, rising to direct it as he gathered evidence and testified in trials across the state.
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