Who Killed Atlanta's Children?
Brief Synopsis
From 1979 to 1981, 29 African-American males, mostly children, were either missing or found murdered in metro Atlanta. The cases p
Cast & Crew
Charles Robert Carner
Philip Akin
Matthew Cooke
Michael Rhoades
Karen Robinson
Kristi Angus
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Synopsis
Two "Spin" magazine reporters conduct an unrelenting search for the truth in the Atlanta child murders of 1979-1981, resulting in an explosive article in the magazine.
From 1979 to 1981, 29 African-American males, mostly children, were either missing or found murdered in metro Atlanta. The cases plagued the city until 1982, when Wayne Wiiliams was convicted of the murders of two adult men. Authorities then considered the other cases closed. Some of the parents of the slain children were critical of the way the cases were handled and believed there was some sort of cover up. Nearly four years after the conviction of Wayne Williams, "Spin" magazine editor Ron Larson and reporter Pat Laughlin come to Atlanta in search of the truth.
Laughlin and Larson are introduced to a contingent of desperate mothers of the missing or murdered children by Assemblywoman Mildren Glover, who gives the reporters a collection of data and suspicious facts. They secretly meet with an active-duty Atlanta police officer. He informs the pair that the investigation into the murders was riddled with incompetence despite the involvement of 14 different law enforcement agencies, including the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the FBI. In the end, as political pressure, fear and armed hysteria mounted, the massive manhunt produced Wayne Williams as "The Atlanta Child Murderer," though at the trial he was convicted of killing two men in their '20s. What the parents of the missing and murdered children were left with was the knowledge that all of the children had been killed in different ways in five different counties, and the only connecting link was that they were all black and poor.
Director
Charles Robert Carner
Cast
Philip Akin
Matthew Cooke
Michael Rhoades
Karen Robinson
Kristi Angus
Phillip Jarrett
Bill Duke
Michelle Nolden
Tatiana Medvedeva
Pixie Bigelow
Sean Bell
Johnston J J
J.c. Kenny
Bill Lake
Paulino Nunes
Vincent Mccurdy Clark
Johnie Chase
Roger Mckeen
Shawn Lawrence
Craig Eldridge
Karen Glave
Stacey Parker
David Joseph
Aidan Devine
Kenneth Welsh
Bill Macdonald
Elena Joukova-douglas
Bill Lynn
Shawn Doyle
Conrad Coates
Louis Taylor
Patrick Chilvers
Rufus Crawford
Clt Bennett
Lynda Gravatt
Eugene Clark
Sarah Lafleur
Sean Mccann
Quancetia Hamilton
James Belushi
Nancy Mcalear
Debra Sharkey
Gregory Hines
Robert Thomas
Jack Wallace
Novie Edwards
Crew
Virginia Alves
Otis Barlow
Matt Birman
Jeremy Boxen
Paul Breckenridge
Astra Burka
Sarah Campbell
Charles Robert Carner
Jill Carter
Janet Cavanagh
Rhosael Ciandre
Peter Clements
Jon Comerford
Mark Cowden
Tony Deeley
Karen Demontbrun
Nadine Dislioglu
Wendy Eaman
Eric Fraser
Sandy French
Bryn Garrison
Michael Goi
Freddie Golden
Kathleen Graham
Michael Grais
Rebecca Gray
Zach Hines
Robin Hinter
Juanita Holden
Alex Kavanagh
Leslie Kavanagh
David Kiser
Christina Kuhnigk
Christina Kuhnigk
Rudy Langlais
Ryan Lee
Stephanie Lees
Marc Leif
Vair Macphee
Raine Man
David Mcaree
Darcie Mcisaac
Michael Mcshane
Michael Meagher
Daniel C Megill
Steve Middlebrook
Mark Moore
Trevor Morgan
Kimberlee Morley
Andrew Nicholson
Norm Ouzounis
Peter Pastorelli
Derek Porter
John Quartz
Janice Shantz
Ron Stefaniuk
Franco Tatta
Bradford H Turner
Anton Tyukodi
James Verboort
Mark Victor
Catherine Wallace
David Watts
Evan Webber
Kit Whitmore
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Aired in United States July 16, 2000
Previous title: "Unanswered Questions."
Began shooting September 24, 1999.
Completed shooting October 27, 1999.
