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Atlanta Murders Reopened |
| Message Name: |
Ignoring Facts? |
| Date Posted: |
05/24/2005 |
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Management at WSB-TV Atlanta continues ignoring both old and new evidence which casts serious doubt on the conviction of Wayne Williams. Anchors Monica Kauffman and Richard Belcher continue to lobby management to disregard this evidence and the re-opening of the six DeKalb County cases. Kauffaman and Belcher, long ago, hitched their wagons to the City of Atlanta and the Fulton County District Attorney's Office which prosecuted Williams. But others of us, also at WSB, know how flawed the State's case is against Williams. We know that the truth is buried along with 29 victims. |
| Message: |
"flight leader" must be leading the same flight that landed in Roswell, NM years ago.
Why would Kaufmann and Belcher lobby management? On who's behalf? There is NO ONE remaining with Atl PD or Fulton DA's office that originally worked these cases. WSB currently has anything BUT a cozy relationship with these two agencies.
What is this evidence they are "ignoring?" I was at the DeKalb Chief's news conference in which he admitted "no new evidence has come forward leading to the re-opening of these cases."
I know for a fact Kaufmann repeatedly called the news desk and asked that a crew be rushed over to V-103 radio to grab interviews with Chief Graham and family members of the victims. If she's been lobbying management to ignore this story, she did a crappy job on the day we did redundant "Triple-Team" coverage on the day of the news conference.
Like I predicted, this story has already faded from the news, because there is simply NOTHING to report. A year from now, there will be a two-paragraph line in the AJC saying the cold-case squad is moving on to something else, either because they ran out of leads to chase or because the wacky county CEO has bounced another Police Chief from his post.
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