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Atlanta Murders |
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CourtTV Documentary |
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06/12/2005 |
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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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BushwoodADump: I worked with Bob Sirkin on the CourtTV Documentary on these cases. It was first aired in 2000 and re-aired last month.
Sirkin did nearly all of the interviews for the documentary, including the one with Harold Deadman, the FBI's former chief fiber expert. Sirkin got Deadman to admit that he mistakenly linked fibers from a car to three victims whose murders were blamed on Wayne Williams. That was one hell of an admission! Sirkin's reporting on this story has never been challenged by anyone other than those officials who played a role in convicting Wayne Williams. Most of them have refused to be interviewed.
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