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Atlanta Murders Reopened |
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A Story Long Ignored by Atlanta Media |
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05/15/2005 |
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Last Wednesday, DeKalb County Georgia Police Chief Louis Graham boldly announced the re-opening of six murder cases, linked to the infamous 29 Atlanta "Missing and Murdered" cases from 1979-81.
Graham said he has long believed in Wayne Williams' innocence. Williams was convicted of killing two men, not children. He was blamed for 22 additional murders. Parents of the victims have never believed that Williams killed their children. They've always believed that police covered up and lied to them about their alleged, politically motivated investigation.
The Atlanta media have largely ignored doubts over Williams conviction and alleged police bungling of the investigation.
The Atlanta Journal refused to review the only book written about police ineptness, "The List." The paper also ignored a 2000 Court-TV documentary, in which the former Chief FBI Fiber Expert, admitted to wrongfully linking fibers from a 1979 Ford to three victims who's murders were blamed on Wayne Williams. That car was never in possession of Williams nor his family at the time of the disappearances and murders of the three victims.
Even worse, in 1987, Cox owned WSB-TV ordered a reporter to suspend a string of stories on three eyewitnesses to the sodimizing and strangling of a 12 year old boy. The witnesses named a suspect, other than Wayne Williams, as the killer. But the child's murder was still blamed on Williams. These stories prompted angry parents to march on the Police Commissioner's office, demanding that he reopen all of the cases. He refused. Acting under pressure from city officials, WSB-TV executives told the reporter that his stories "were too disruptive to the community." Cox, through it's newspaper and television station was practicing boosterism, not journalism.
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