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The Atlanta murders of 1979–1981, sometimes called the Atlanta child murders, are 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. Wayne Williams, an Atlanta native who was 23 years old at the time of the last murder, was ...
Wayne Williams. Wayne Bertram Williams (born May 27, 1958) is an American convicted murderer and suspected serial killer who is serving life imprisonment for the 1981 killings of two men in Atlanta, Georgia. [1] Although never tried for the additional murders, he is also believed to be responsible for at least 24 of the 30 Atlanta murders of ...
Crime in Atlanta, Georgia is above the national median and has been a major problem for the city since the middle 20th century. Atlanta’s public safety improvement between 2001 and 2009 occurred at more than twice the rate of the rest of the country. [2] After ranking in the top five highest violent crime cities for most of the previous three ...
In the 1980s, Atlanta hosted one of the "world's busiest" airports. Baldwin remarks on the success of Atlanta as a commercial hub to highlight what the city placed importance on being "The City Too Busy To Hate." [3] Baldwin's critical analysis on the Atlanta Child Murders sparked substantial interest and intrigue surrounding the case.
The Atlanta Child Murders is an American television miniseries [6] that aired on February 10 and 12, 1985 on CBS. [7][8][9][10] The miniseries is a dramatization of the "Atlanta child murders" in which 29 African American children were murdered in Atlanta from summer 1979 through spring 1981. City officials, who had opted not to participate in ...
James Walraven. James Samuel Walraven (1949 – c. April 2004), nicknamed The Bathtub Strangler, was an American murderer and suspected serial killer from Georgia who murdered 22-year-old Giselle Clardy in 1981 and was the prime suspect in two similar murders of women in their apartments. He was convicted and sentenced to die in the electric ...
On July 29, 1999, a shooting spree occurred at two Atlanta -area day trading firms, Momentum Securities and the All-Tech Investment Group. Nine people were killed, and 13 other people were injured. The gunman, identified as 44-year-old former day trader Mark Orrin Barton, later committed suicide in Acworth before he could be apprehended by ...
Techwood Homes / Clark Howell Homes. Techwood Homes was the first federally funded public housing project in the United States, with 1,230 units opening in 1936. [4] Located in the Centennial Hill district of Downtown Atlanta, it was joined by Clark Howell Homes (both all white) in 1940. [4] In the run-up to the 1996 Olympics, Techwood and ...