as a young child, reed would help the volunteers searching atlanta s woods every saturday. we literally would walk through wooded areas chaperoned and we would walk for a period of time until about an hour before nightfall. but now a new twist in the murders. patrick baltazar, the 20th victim, would be the last child to turn up in a wooded area. a day or two later an official would tell reporters fibers and dog hairs were being collected from the victim s clothing. the next child to die would be found in a river wearing nothing but underpants. fewer clues now for larry peterson. we re talking maybe a dozen or dozens of fibers as opposed to hundreds or potentially a thousand fibers. the 13-year-old victim was found beneath this bridge over the south river in atlanta s suburbs.
helps prevent the urge to smoke all day. i want this time to be my last time. that s why i choose nicoderm cq. the second day after wayne williams was seen on the chattahoochee river bridge, the body of nathaniel cater washed up downstream. he was a down on his luck drunk, 28 years old, but small, weighing under 150 pounds. again, the medical examiner said cater could have been killed, quote, with a choke hold, trapping the neck in the crook of the arm. his would be the last body found in the atlanta murders. the 27th male victim.
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there were whites who fed the fear in atlanta. as fbi chief john glover had moved into this upper class white neighborhood, his 12-year-old son was playing outside one afternoon. some guy in a pickup truck, he was out in the yard in our side yard. we were on a corner. we lived in we had a corner lot, you know. said, i m going to get you, nigger, as he was driving by. kasim reed, seen in these childhood photos, was only 10 when the first two bodies were found in the woods close to his home in the summer of 1979. my life did change. how so? not out as late as you used to be. not able to ride your bike unaccompanied. in 2010, reed would become the mayor of atlanta. but back then, as the youngest boy in his family, his teenage brothers were his protectors.