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Atlanta Murders Reopened |
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And This..... |
| Date Posted: |
05/15/2005 |
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WSB-TV and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution joined a media class action suit, in 1986, under the Freedom of Information Act, against
Fulton County. That lawsuit resulted in the release of hundreds of pages of court files and police records detailing the case of Clifford Jones. He was a 12 year old boy who was raped and murdered in a S.W. Atlanta laundry. THREE eyewitnesses gave police and the FBI detailed accounts of Clifford's murder and the disposal of his body. Again, this was part of the offcial police records! The eyewitnesses named a suspect, James Brooks, as the killer. But he was never arrested for the murder. Instead, Wayne Williams was blamed for Clifford Jones' murder and 21 others upon his conviction.
Furthermore, WSB-TV and the Atlanta Journal have ignored the 2000 admission by former
FBI Chief Fiber Expert Harold Deadman to Bob Sirkin.
Speaking to a Court-TV camera, Deadman admitted to Sirkin that he wrongfully linked fibers from a 1979 Ford LTD to three victims, who's murders were also blamed on Wayne Williams. The documentary, re-airing Monday evening on Court-TV, showed that Williams nor his family was in possession of the Ford LTD during the disappearances of the three victims and at the time of their murders.
So, once again, there was PLENTY of crucial, exculpatory evidence brought forward by Court-TV, Dateline NBC, the book "The List" and other writings which WSB-TV and it's Cox owned sister, The Atlanta Journal, have ignorned through the years. |
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WSB-TV joined the media lawsuit to gain release of police and court records on the Clifford Jones Case. But, after it aired a dozen or so stories on the new, exculpatory evidence, resulting in parents of the victims demanding a reopening of all the cases, WSB-TV caved to political pressure and suspended it's coverage. The Atlanta Journal, also party to the lawsuit, amazingly, chose not to publish ANYTHING from these files on Jones' murder in which a suspect, other than Wayne Williams was named.
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