says, hey, we ve got a problem? the parents of murdered and missing children in atlanta three of the victims mothers, camille belle, willie mae mathis and venus taylor band together to create the committee to stop children s murders, commonly known as stop. a lot of good came out of it because it brought a lot of awareness to people. watch your kids. talk to your kids. go in the gym. don t go in the bushes and do it. you all know what s been happening, right? yeah. children were uneasy. they were afraid. what we did, we taught them to travel in groups. parents formed neighborhood groups, and they would stand on the streets while the buses picked the children up. if i m going to go to the store, cross the street or out the back door, whatever, i take them with me wherever, you know. about them other parents, i don t know. although police at first
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this is the first time wayne williams has talked on tv in at least a decade. why do you think you were convicted? fear. what do you mean? atlanta, at the time, was in a panic. they wanted any suspect that they could find. and let s just be honest. it had to be a black person, because if it had been a white suspect, atlanta probably would have gone up in flames. it came very close to that. do you think you ll ever be free? no doubt it s not a matter of if to me. it s a matter of when. some 30 years after wayne williams trial and conviction, there is still debate and some doubt. this time, you can be the judge and the jury. we ll lay out the evidence on both sides and you ll hear from wayne williams at length. then we ll invite you to reach your own verdict, guilty, innocent, or a third choice, not proven. the first clue was found on a dead boy s tennis shoes. the victim was eric middlebrooks. his body left here in a rainy alley. a foster child who rode his bicyc
this was to be the last night, almost the last hour. i heard the splash. bob campbell, a police recruit, jumped to his feet down beside the chattahoochee river. i was really startled. it sounded like a body entering the water. he looked up at the bridge. and i saw brake lights of a car coming. i saw red lights. the car started slowly moving away from me across the bridge. campbell radioed the other team members up above him. i asked, did a car stop on the bridge? because i couldn t believe what i saw. and each person told me they didn t see it. then a policeman in a chase car hidden on the other side came on the radio. he just said, the car is pulling in the parking lot here turning around in front of me and started coming back across the bridge, coming back in my direction. this is that white statn wagon. police followed it and stopped it nearby. fbi agent mike mccomas rushed to the scene. the driver was standing by the highway. he was talking with the
didn t go home after a movie. his windpipe is crushed and police suspect he was strangled. they believe the two murders are likely drug related. then on october 21st, 9-year-old youssef belle disappears. his mother camille is interviewed on local television. are you jumbled up inside? i m a lot jumbled up inside, but i m not ready to have a funeral until i see a body. camille belle never gives up hope that her son will be found alive. but two months later police bring her the news that they have found youssef s body. we re really not sure exactly what happened to youssef belle, only that his body was found in a maintenance trap in an abandoned schoolhouse near atlanta-fulton county stadium. but even when the body of another boy, 14-year-old milton harvey, is discovered later that month, police still don t connect the murders. rather, they consider them random acts of violence in an inner city plagued by drugs and
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