Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced that the city of Atlanta will re-examine evidence in the decades-old Atlanta child murders in the hopes that … Atlanta Monster, Atlanta, Georgia. Atlanta Monster, a much-anticipated re-examination of a crime wave that riveted the nation, is a meandering mess, a wasted opportunity to illuminate what … Forty years later, with the official re-opening of the case by Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, this five-part docuseries tells the inside story of the shocking tragedy, shedding new light on the horrific killings through exclusive archival footage, unseen court documents and interviews with those closest to the children and investigation. Honoree in Documentary 2018. Although he was never tried or convicted, the murders of 29 kids and young adults were attributed to him as well. 7.1K likes. Till this day, no person has been tried for these murders and the killer has never been confirmed. Wayne Bertram Williams (born May 27, 1958) is an American serving life imprisonment for the 1981 killing of two adult men in Atlanta, Georgia, and believed by police to be responsible for at least 23 of the 30 Atlanta murders of 1979–1981, also known as the Atlanta Child Murders.He was never tried for the child murders and continues to maintain his innocence. Atlanta's Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children Between 1979 to 1981, at least 30 African-American children and young adults disappeared or were murdered in Atlanta.
Wayne Williams, the subject of the podcast Atlanta Monster and Season 2 of Mindhunter, has been in prison for almost 40 years after being convicted of murdering two men.
The true-crime podcast Atlanta Monster is a meandering mess of a mystery with a hapless detective at its center. In January 2018, documentary filmmaker Payne Lindsey began releasing a podcast called Atlanta Monster, covering the murders with interviews from family members of victims, law enforcement officials, individuals alive in the Atlanta area at the time of the murders, and Wayne Williams.
In January 2018, documentary filmmaker Payne Lindsey began releasing a podcast called Atlanta Monster, covering the murders with interviews from family members of victims, law enforcement officials, individuals alive in the Atlanta area at the time of the murders, and Wayne Williams. This true crime podcast tells the story Atlanta's darkest secrets, The Atlanta Child Murders. Lindsey’s previous “Monster” podcast, “Atlanta Monster,” examined the deaths of at least 28 African-American children and young men in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
‘Atlanta Monster’: The First Blockbuster Podcast of 2018 is a Complex Look at a City Wrestling with Its Past . By Laura Miller March 19, 2018 7:30 AM The Atlanta murders of 1979–1981, sometimes called the Atlanta child murders, were a series of murders committed in Atlanta, Georgia, between July 1979 and May 1981.Over the two-year period, at least 28 children, adolescents, and adults were killed. The premise of the podcast, at its core, was to find out who the real Atlanta monster is, and to see if Williams has been wrongly imprisoned all these years like some people think. HBO’s Latest True-Crime Documentary Is Driven More by Twists Than the Truth Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered is better than Atlanta Monster, but that’s not saying much.