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Atlanta Murders |
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Does this sound familiar?? |
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06/12/2005 |
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I have no idea how this thread has lasted as long as it has. But regardless, let's cut to the chase. I can't even make up a reason an Atlanta station - be it WSB or otherwise - would ignore a significant development in this decades-old case. They simply would not ignore a potential blockbuster story. And - trust me on this - relationships with city leaders (PD or otherwise) are far from cozy. If anything they've reached a decades-old low.
The sad truth -- and I won't defend this -- is in the ATL (as in many other markets), local TV stations simply do not have the resources to conduct a full scale investigation on all the tidbits of "new" information that comes up. If there is any fault, this is it.
I can unequivocally state there is no desire to squash, cover up, or ignore this story. To think so would be giving these stations WAY too much credit.
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This was posted on a couple of web sites by Bob Sirkin in August of last year:
"In 1987, while working for WSB-TV, I reported on compelling new, exculpatory evidence in Atlanta??s infamous Missing and Murdered Children's Cases and the conviction of Wayne Williams. Williams was convicted of killing two young, Black men, not children. With the help of my long time colleague and former Los Angeles Times Correspondent, Jeff Prugh, my reports focused on one of 22 additional murder cases charged off to Wayne Williams upon his February 1982 conviction."
"Next, former WSB-TV News Director David Lippoff sheepishly called me into his office to lower the boom on my reporting of the Jones case. Said Lippoff: ??your reports are too disruptive to the community. Soon after I left WSB-TV.
Since then, WSB-TV, it??s radio stations and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution have failed to report on the discovery of more exculpatory evidence in Wayne Williams still pending appeals case. The evidence includes the FBI??s former chief fiber expert, Harold Deadman. He admitted to me on camera that he introduced WRONG fiber evidence from the trunk of a car against Williams at trial! Deadman was featured in a one-hour Court-TV documentary on the cases which first aired in the fall of 2000. Typical of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and WSB-TV's indifference to the story, they never reviewed the Court-TV documentary."
Hmmmmm. His entire letter to correspondances.com is found here: http://www.correspondences.org/archives/000048.html
Sounds like maybe Bob has found a new forum for his rant here on TV Spy.
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