Glad people are bringing attention to this case. I moved to Atlanta in 1979 as a child. It was such a horrifying time. We couldn't go an inch from our front yard. Mom was yelling for us to come back. If you lived through it changed you.
Bless you, Will Parker, for shedding light on this story. My Mom talked about this when I was younger. We always felt that the families never got the justice they deserved.
This is absolutely shocking to me. It’s astounding that I’ve never heard of this. How is this not told the way we talk about other heinous crimes and serial murders. 23 is a lot of children....
The same way you may not know about an entire well-off black community burned to the ground by murderous racism. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwood,_Tulsa
I was just a kid when my family moved to Macon, GA, just before that started. It was a deeply unsettling thing for everyone in the state. Everyone was nervous that the serial killer would wander further afield. I cannot think of GA without these murders coming to mind.
I remember this well. I was a child living there in the 70s. This was huge news all over the news in the South. Many of us werent allowed to go outside to play unsupervised. At my old job I toured the prison in the 90s where Wayne Williams was ,he was there polishing the floor right in front of us. The children's murders were likely pinned on Wayne Williams, a black man. Its widely believed the Klan was responsible. Seems like some dna on carpet fibers didnt match decades later or something also. The current mayor is trying to re-open the investigation. He was convicted of murdering 2 young adults. There were 30 including these and the missing children . He is up for parole next year.
A lot of people did know it Will and you hit the nail on the head about who was traumatized and why their experiences were swept under the rug as though no one was hurt, missed, lost violated.
It's still true that the most vulnerable are easily victimised... I am glad he made the documentary. We still don't hear enough of indigenous women who still are victimised on a daily basis.
He should do a movie about the grim sleeper that also had no media coverage because black women were being killed. The grim sleeper was killing women for over several decades.
Hollywood needs to stop thinking and telling people what they want and have an open mind and not be biased and racist. Period. I want to see this documentary.
Hollywood? This is real life. It was the media that failed these families, along with with the police and investigators that took too long to take action. They literally found dozen bodies and still didn't think that there could've been a serial killer on the loose.
@@starcherry6814 I know that. I was referring to them talking about how Hollywood tries to tell black people what people want to see. I wasn't talking about the documeatr it's self. Which in real life what happened to those boys is horrible and wrong and it's a story that needs to be told.
Living in Atlanta then, I remember feeling physically ill whenever a news flash came on, fearing it would be a story about another missing or murdered child. Though a young white woman back then, I lived in-town and remember the dread and anxiety we all felt, as well as the frustration that no progress was being made. I had black friends whose children were never allowed out without adult supervision. One white police officer I knew started crying and his knees buckled when a new victim was reported. Visitors to the city regardless of origin wondered and worried. The evidence against Wayne Williams was almost all fiber and hair analysis, which was covered at length in the papers and local media. When the killings stopped after Williams's arrest, the entire city began--slowly--to breathe again. Williams was very intelligent and rather eccentric (characteristics I share) and everyone I knew struggled between relief that the murders had stopped and disbelief that anyone could have killed twenty-three children without more evidence. It is amazing that this hasn't received more attention in the national sphere, and I'm glad that it is at last. But I do believe that Mr. Packer is mistaken in his assertion that no one outside of the children's families cared. The city was traumatized. Admittedly, my family and friends were empathetic enough to see the tragedy in human terms, but even the openly racist people I crossed paths with were appalled. Of course I've wondered over the years whether a similar string of child killings surfaced elsewhere afterwards, but I haven't gone looking for evidence. Like most of the rest of Atlanta, I needed to believe that the monster was contained.
I was a kid there and many suspect the Klan. I Posted above. I hope they figure out the truth. For a while we didnt realize it was black males. It was at least made to look as a serial killer. You remember better than me. They Were all boys right? Im pretty sure..? I know none of us could play outside for a while. So sad!
I believe two were girls, one of whom was a good bit younger and the general speculation was that her murder was unrelated. The age of the kids--mostly young teens or almost teens--also led to speculation that this was a pedophile at work. And yes, of course we all suspected the Klan. The two biggest arguments against that were that white men in that area would have aroused suspicion and that Klansmen would have bragged about it. People also didn't want to say much about the possibility of pedophilia because gay men were also being abused and victimized regularly.
That may be true, but why do situations like this get only one tv movie or podcast, but Ted Bundy and Charles Manson gets dozens of movies, specials, interviews, etc? I grew up around the time this happened, but I don't remember this at all.
@@debbiedoodiedandi Probably because the guy who was accused maintained his innocence. Bundy and Manson were sick fucks with too much evidence against him.
I really love hearing about those directors who draw inspiration from past events which need to be told because if we know somethings in history, we will know whether it has happened already in this generation or its the first time. And how to prevent such things happening again
This is horrible. Some of those innocent beautiful children were sleeping in their beds between other people and came up missing. I pray that DNA will help locating the REAL child murderer(s). Not to mention all of those children were not found. This is a tragedy. God sits high and looks low. Trust me whoever killed these children WILL REAP with what they have sewn. One of the childrens' Mother was on The View with Mr. Packer and said that her daughter was among the victims. She was found tied to a damn tree with her lip and ear cut off. I REALLY believe that the KKK killed these innocent beautiful children.
Who Killed Atlanta's Children, starring Jim Belushi and Gregory Hines. It's one of my "Angry Making but SO GOOD" movies (Mississippi Burning & Bamboozled as well)
@@Dyamondz4me I *lived through that* in the at risk age group and racial demographic, transferring from school bus to MARTA in downtown Atlanta, thank you very much.
@@AxeMan808 ok, glad you survived, your family did not have to grieve and you're here today to speak your OPINION on it, exactly like I did. I won't know your horror at that time, but people should know that something so horrific happened with over 20 children under age 15 were brutally murder in this country, it was never solved who did it.
@@Dyamondz4me I don't understand why you were arguing with me? I gave you the name of the movie you were likely talking about. If not, then it's certainly worth checking out.
Wayne Williams is an innocent victim. He was feisty and sarcastic, but definitely not a murderer. The Atlanta Child Murders were committed by several different people, not a "serial killer." Wayne Williams was used as a scapegoat. Remember the murders of 10 year old Earl Terrell and 12 year old Christopher Richardson? Shotgun shells were found beside their bodies, but their causes of death were "Undetermined." According to police, a "middle-aged white man with a southern drawl" called Earl Terrell's home to say he had Earl in Alabama and asked for $200 by Friday, but no more calls came. Incidentally, white men were always being spotted in Atlanta's black neighborhoods. They didn't look suspicious because they were dressed as salesmen, utility men, insurance men, repairmen, painters, lawn-care men, plumbers and policemen. The killer or killers may be black, but Wayne Williams is innocent. Over half of the Atlanta Child Murder victims were killed with guns of different calibers, but neither Wayne Williams nor his father owned any guns, and no guns were found in their home. Incidentally, 14 year old Eric Middlebrooks was killed two weeks after he testified against three juveniles in a robbery case. Just before Wayne Williams was arrested, District Attorney Lewis Slaton publicly announced they did not have enough evidence to arrest Wayne Williams, but the Federal Government pressured Lewis Slaton into issuing an arrest warrant anyway. The Government needs to exonerate Wayne Williams of these crimes.
"Williams was only convicted of two murders and the victims were adults...", one was a known martial artist, a low-level dealer who shook down other dealers for money and drugs, yet Williams was convicted of killing him. That victim was +6", nearly 200lbs and a known athlete. Williams is only 5'"7 and weighed 145lbs at the time of his arrest and was a considered a wimp, but somehow strangled the victim, threw the victim over a 4' bridge guardrail without stopping while his car was going 20+mph. The murders DIDN'T STOP. Get the book "The List" by Chet Dettlinger with Jeff Prugh, it ain't cheap but it was written by two investigators who were on the case who were shut out of the ATL/ACM task force when they protested Williams' innocence and had pertinent information about possible suspects who new the victims 'intimately'prior to Williams ever being considered a person of interest. Those same suspects had a prior history of child sex abuse and at least two would later be convicted of multiple child sex crimes after Williams was already in jail. One was an upper-middle-class caucasian who ran a child/male prostitution ring for which he was convicted. This same person had city contracts at the time of the murders. He was one of the few non-black contractors that the city gave carte blanche back in the New south period. There were, murders prior to the 'official' timeframe that was not included in the list of victims. Several of those victims were also adults at least one was a female, they all grew up in the same neighborhoods as the victims that were in the official list and were killed in almost the same fashion as those included in the list.
Wow, I tell people about this all the time, black people being forgotten from GA to overtown 305 ... thanks for doing this interview and having the balls to ask the real questions
this is utterly shocking and disgusting that 23 children *23 children* were murdered - in such a brutal way - and that this didn't get the attention of the media or the authorities.
@Sa. Hayes OMG this was - and *IS* - terrifying - *EVERY* child should be SAFE - *EVERY CHILD* I do not care (in the BEST possible way) black, white, = purple with orange stripes - DO NOT CARE - this is a CHILD - amber alert *everywhere*
The Atlanta child murders were covered extensively by the national press and tv news media. Both day and night, for weeks, that was consistently and justifiably the top story. The APD worked tirelessly to solve this case wich resulted in the arrest of Williams, not for the child murders but for two adult males, he then became APD's chief suspect in the child murders based on the M.O. from the adult case. An overwhelming amount of circumstantial evidence, nineteen sources of fiber and hair found on some of the child victims and in Williams' home matched. Later FBI DNA testing of Williams hair and hair found on one of the child victims resulted in odds of 130 to 1 against the hairs coming from anyone but Williams. Hair from Williams' dog were also matched with dog hairs found on the same victim with a 99% match. The FBI stated that the test results were significant but because the DNA profiles were not 100% matching the evidence was deemed inconclusive. The fact that the murders stopped after Williams' arrest should speak volumes regarding his guilt. There were even eyewitnesses who placed Williams with some of the victims before they disappeared. All this evidence pointed to Williams but no, KKK members drove into those neighborhoods, coaxed or forced black children into a car and then murdered them without anybody noticing?
Dog hair evidence is psuedo science and DNA hair strands were not that advanced then. A white man was seen with some of these children before their deaths so claiming the KKK wasn't involved is unfactual.
I think that the issue of whether Wayne Williams did or did not murder those kids is exactly what this documentary is not about. Because of the publicity and media chaos this tragedy eventually got, the story of these children somehow took a backseat and overshadowed by conspiracy theories. This documentary I think focuses the light back on the children and their families which is why Packer seemed reluctant to bring up Williams in the first place. It's not about him. We saw how the government responded through curfews, which made sense in theory, but kind of backfired and shifted the blame on the parents for negligence instead of putting more effort in finding the murderer(s). We see how vulnerable people are often put at a disadvantage and blamed for things that are not even within their control. And I feel that that's what we should be more concerned about right now. Not who these monsters were. But those whose stories we lost sight of.
@@cgza7135 exactly why I stated DNA test were deemed inconclusive by the FBI but odds are tremendously in favor of Williams being guilty based on those test. Like I said there is a lot of evidence associating Williams with the victims beyond DNA testing. The fact that the murders stopped after his arrest, on it's own, is not proof of his guilt but added to other existing evidence weighs heavily in favor of his guilt.
We're all people no matter race there is no disconnect unless you wish to create a disconnect no matter color the poor has always been silenced and or ignored and sadly this has left negligence in thousands of similar cases throughout the US. SPREAD LOVE NOT DIFFERENCES.
Often .. despite our most ardent intent and desires ... the forces of white power racism makes distinctions between race that deserve addressing ... bc there ARE specific particulars that ONLY apply to black folk AND ... there are still tons of similarities along class lines just as you say. Both be true @ the same time.... imho....
Good try Will! But you failed just like all the rest! I’ve been following the “child murders” for MANY years, and I’ve unfortunately come to the conclusion that these kids murders will continue to go unnoticed and unsolved! May those poor kids souls rest in eternal peace...
This is almost funny to me. The internet is full of information new and old. So when one poster decides to post about how msm decides what interest them, someone has put this out on the net for anyone to consume. With every click you give to the kartrashians or whatever you click on you also choose what you subscribe to. This is a nearly 40 year old story. I'm not even from there but knew about this. There really is no excuse people. Make better choices.
I never noticed that Hollywood doesn't put black people in movies. They're 13% of the population, so why aren't they at least 90% of the characters in movies?!?
This whole interview i was thinking, compare Get Out to Shutter Island. Make better movies and they will get awards. I understand the movement but c'mon.
when your message is inclusion, when in reality, the actors are exclusively black, you’re being disingenuous. It’s fine if you want to make a movie that only has black people. Nothing wrong with that. But you’re actively segregating shit with labels like “black Hollywood.” are we maybe as a society, struggling between representation and segregation?
I see what you're trying to say, but you are dead wrong. The idea is to work towards inclusivity through understanding and context, but in order to do so he has chosen to put real people into real situations about real life. Why would he star anyone else? As for his other films, they represent a challenge and a invitation to a new way of dealing with representation.
Shadow Fox it’s not inclusive if you’re by definition, making it exclusive to a specific race. There’s nothing wrong with him doing this, either. Just stop calling it one thing, and claiming that you’re doing another.
@@HLVEYT That makes no sense. First of all, he is trying to bring light to a disenfranchised and ignored people, and by doing so he is including them into the mainstream. When a vast majority of Hollywood's output doesn't represent them, they have to work towards making it do so. You are approaching the problem from the wrong angle.
Glad people are bringing attention to this case. I moved to Atlanta in 1979 as a child. It was such a horrifying time. We couldn't go an inch from our front yard. Mom was yelling for us to come back. If you lived through it changed you.
Bless you, Will Parker, for shedding light on this story. My Mom talked about this when I was younger. We always felt that the families never got the justice they deserved.
He didn't do notin but help them lie and cover more up.
This is absolutely shocking to me. It’s astounding that I’ve never heard of this. How is this not told the way we talk about other heinous crimes and serial murders. 23 is a lot of children....
Yep! I know way too much about Bundy, Manson and Son of Sam, but I don't recall this at all.
The same way you may not know about an entire well-off black community burned to the ground by murderous racism. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwood,_Tulsa
@@JaceCavacini Yeah, unfortunately I've heard that one. One step forward, 12 steps backwards it feels like =/
Someone need to make a black wallstreet movie
I was just a kid when my family moved to Macon, GA, just before that started. It was a deeply unsettling thing for everyone in the state. Everyone was nervous that the serial killer would wander further afield. I cannot think of GA without these murders coming to mind.
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I remember this well. I was a child living there in the 70s. This was huge news all over the news in the South. Many of us werent allowed to go outside to play unsupervised.
At my old job I toured the prison in the 90s where Wayne Williams was ,he was there polishing the floor right in front of us.
The children's murders were likely pinned on Wayne Williams, a black man. Its widely believed the Klan was responsible. Seems like some dna on carpet fibers didnt match decades later or something also.
The current mayor is trying to re-open the investigation.
He was convicted of murdering 2 young adults. There were 30 including these and the missing children .
He is up for parole next year.
Just watched this on ID the other day, N I cried so much! PRAYING for all the families
Um... Hollywood always claimed our films weren't what ppl wanted to see...
Fuck Hollywood
A lot of people did know it Will and you hit the nail on the head about who was traumatized and why their experiences were swept under the rug as though no one was hurt, missed, lost violated.
It's still true that the most vulnerable are easily victimised... I am glad he made the documentary. We still don't hear enough of indigenous women who still are victimised on a daily basis.
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Bravo Will thank you this is an answered prayer🌺🌺
The Atlanta Child Murders haunted me as a child. I never knew people could hate/hurt children like that.
we all need to be giving voice to the children separated at the border.
He on the same team of all investors. He help with more of the cover up.
He should do a movie about the grim sleeper that also had no media coverage because black women were being killed. The grim sleeper was killing women for over several decades.
I remember seeing pictures of the victims in Ebony back in the day. I don't remember seeing it elsewhere.
Hollywood needs to stop thinking and telling people what they want and have an open mind and not be biased and racist. Period. I want to see this documentary.
Hollywood? This is real life.
It was the media that failed these families, along with with the police and investigators that took too long to take action.
They literally found dozen bodies and still didn't think that there could've been a serial killer on the loose.
@@starcherry6814 I know that. I was referring to them talking about how Hollywood tries to tell black people what people want to see. I wasn't talking about the documeatr it's self. Which in real life what happened to those boys is horrible and wrong and it's a story that needs to be told.
Actually people need to stop allowing and blaming everyone else. Demand better people.
Hope they put up a memorial..no matter how small for the departed...let them know that they are remembered and they have justice....
Living in Atlanta then, I remember feeling physically ill whenever a news flash came on, fearing it would be a story about another missing or murdered child. Though a young white woman back then, I lived in-town and remember the dread and anxiety we all felt, as well as the frustration that no progress was being made. I had black friends whose children were never allowed out without adult supervision. One white police officer I knew started crying and his knees buckled when a new victim was reported. Visitors to the city regardless of origin wondered and worried.
The evidence against Wayne Williams was almost all fiber and hair analysis, which was covered at length in the papers and local media. When the killings stopped after Williams's arrest, the entire city began--slowly--to breathe again. Williams was very intelligent and rather eccentric (characteristics I share) and everyone I knew struggled between relief that the murders had stopped and disbelief that anyone could have killed twenty-three children without more evidence.
It is amazing that this hasn't received more attention in the national sphere, and I'm glad that it is at last. But I do believe that Mr. Packer is mistaken in his assertion that no one outside of the children's families cared. The city was traumatized. Admittedly, my family and friends were empathetic enough to see the tragedy in human terms, but even the openly racist people I crossed paths with were appalled. Of course I've wondered over the years whether a similar string of child killings surfaced elsewhere afterwards, but I haven't gone looking for evidence. Like most of the rest of Atlanta, I needed to believe that the monster was contained.
I was a kid there and many suspect the Klan. I Posted above. I hope they figure out the truth. For a while we didnt realize it was black males. It was at least made to look as a serial killer. You remember better than me. They Were all boys right? Im pretty sure..? I know none of us could play outside for a while. So sad!
Things changed forever. :(
I believe two were girls, one of whom was a good bit younger and the general speculation was that her murder was unrelated. The age of the kids--mostly young teens or almost teens--also led to speculation that this was a pedophile at work. And yes, of course we all suspected the Klan. The two biggest arguments against that were that white men in that area would have aroused suspicion and that Klansmen would have bragged about it. People also didn't want to say much about the possibility of pedophilia because gay men were also being abused and victimized regularly.
There was a whole mini series about the child murders in 1985 Bill Paxton was in it so was Morgan Freeman
That may be true, but why do situations like this get only one tv movie or podcast, but Ted Bundy and Charles Manson gets dozens of movies, specials, interviews, etc? I grew up around the time this happened, but I don't remember this at all.
@@debbiedoodiedandi Probably because the guy who was accused maintained his innocence. Bundy and Manson were sick fucks with too much evidence against him.
I really love hearing about those directors who draw inspiration from past events which need to be told because if we know somethings in history, we will know whether it has happened already in this generation or its the first time. And how to prevent such things happening again
This is horrible. Some of those innocent beautiful children were sleeping in their beds between other people and came up missing. I pray that DNA will help locating the REAL child murderer(s). Not to mention all of those children were not found. This is a tragedy. God sits high and looks low. Trust me whoever killed these children WILL REAP with what they have sewn. One of the childrens' Mother was on The View with Mr. Packer and said that her daughter was among the victims. She was found tied to a damn tree with her lip and ear cut off. I REALLY believe that the KKK killed these innocent beautiful children.
My mother always said it was the KKK.
I totally forgot about this story til i read Gucci Manes autobiography where he mentions this when he first moves to Atlanta
I remember , there was a movie about Atlanta Child murders. I was young when it came out, but great movie.
Who Killed Atlanta's Children, starring Jim Belushi and Gregory Hines. It's one of my "Angry Making but SO GOOD" movies (Mississippi Burning & Bamboozled as well)
@@AxeMan808 Were you ever aware of the murders, probably not or your comment would have made sense.
@@Dyamondz4me I *lived through that* in the at risk age group and racial demographic, transferring from school bus to MARTA in downtown Atlanta, thank you very much.
@@AxeMan808 ok, glad you survived, your family did not have to grieve and you're here today to speak your OPINION on it, exactly like I did. I won't know your horror at that time, but people should know that something so horrific happened with over 20 children under age 15 were brutally murder in this country, it was never solved who did it.
@@Dyamondz4me I don't understand why you were arguing with me? I gave you the name of the movie you were likely talking about. If not, then it's certainly worth checking out.
This is a good thing to remember the troubling past to prepare for the troubling future!
Love will Packard movies, can't wait to see the Doc
Florida Native, FAMU Alum...bravo! 🐍🧡 Thanks for letting our voices be heard through film, reaching the masses.
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I remember when this tragedy happened, I lived in Oregon. I can't wait to see this documentary.
Omg it 7pm Do you know where your kids are?!?!?!?! This play my whole entire childhood... I never knew it was related to kids getting killed
Remember this happening always though it was the klan or law enforcement or both!!! Great to see someone tell this story.
Those are rumors that it was either or. It remains a cold case to this day.
Klan and law enforcement are pretty much the same thing, especially back then.
I remember the TV movie about this incident. Jason Robards was in it.
"'The Atlanta Child Murders' _will premiere,_ March 23rd at 9 p.m."
Did you say _"...will_ premier...?" Goodness. When was this filmed?
Had no idea he was so smart. Love your show Trevor!!
Wayne Williams is an innocent victim. He was feisty and sarcastic, but definitely not a murderer. The Atlanta Child Murders were committed by several different people, not a "serial killer." Wayne Williams was used as a scapegoat.
Remember the murders of 10 year old Earl Terrell and 12 year old Christopher Richardson? Shotgun shells were found beside their bodies, but their causes of death were "Undetermined." According to police, a "middle-aged white man with a southern drawl" called Earl Terrell's home to say he had Earl in Alabama and asked for $200 by Friday, but no more calls came. Incidentally, white men were always being spotted in Atlanta's black neighborhoods. They didn't look suspicious because they were dressed as salesmen, utility men, insurance men, repairmen, painters, lawn-care men, plumbers and policemen. The killer or killers may be black, but Wayne Williams is innocent.
Over half of the Atlanta Child Murder victims were killed with guns of different calibers, but neither Wayne Williams nor his father owned any guns, and no guns were found in their home. Incidentally, 14 year old Eric Middlebrooks was killed two weeks after he testified against three juveniles in a robbery case.
Just before Wayne Williams was arrested, District Attorney Lewis Slaton publicly announced they did not have enough evidence to arrest Wayne Williams, but the Federal Government pressured Lewis Slaton into issuing an arrest warrant anyway. The Government needs to exonerate Wayne Williams of these crimes.
"Williams was only convicted of two murders and the victims were adults...", one was a known martial artist, a low-level dealer who shook down other dealers for money and drugs, yet Williams was convicted of killing him. That victim was +6", nearly 200lbs and a known athlete. Williams is only 5'"7 and weighed 145lbs at the time of his arrest and was a considered a wimp, but somehow strangled the victim, threw the victim over a 4' bridge guardrail without stopping while his car was going 20+mph. The murders DIDN'T STOP. Get the book "The List" by Chet Dettlinger with Jeff Prugh, it ain't cheap but it was written by two investigators who were on the case who were shut out of the ATL/ACM task force when they protested Williams' innocence and had pertinent information about possible suspects who new the victims 'intimately'prior to Williams ever being considered a person of interest. Those same suspects had a prior history of child sex abuse and at least two would later be convicted of multiple child sex crimes after Williams was already in jail. One was an upper-middle-class caucasian who ran a child/male prostitution ring for which he was convicted. This same person had city contracts at the time of the murders. He was one of the few non-black contractors that the city gave carte blanche back in the New south period. There were, murders prior to the 'official' timeframe that was not included in the list of victims. Several of those victims were also adults at least one was a female, they all grew up in the same neighborhoods as the victims that were in the official list and were killed in almost the same fashion as those included in the list.
When people ask why BLM, I will tell them about this story.
if they cared they wouldn't ask.
Who asks?
Wow, I tell people about this all the time, black people being forgotten from GA to overtown 305 ... thanks for doing this interview and having the balls to ask the real questions
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I have never heard of this. How have I never heard of this.
Thank you!!!!
this is utterly shocking and disgusting that 23 children *23 children* were murdered - in such a brutal way - and that this didn't get the attention of the media or the authorities.
@Sa. Hayes OMG
this was - and *IS* - terrifying - *EVERY* child should be SAFE - *EVERY CHILD* I do not care (in the BEST possible way) black, white, = purple with orange stripes - DO NOT CARE - this is a CHILD - amber alert *everywhere*
@Sa. Hayes *hello*
uh the second season of "Mindhunter" deals with the ACM....so this will be weird
I clicked so fast! Love this show
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This needs to be taught in us history i had no clue about this they can squeeze this in after the reconstruction or jim crow era
I'm gonna have to see, " Girls Trip " now.
The Atlanta child murders were covered extensively by the national press and tv news media. Both day and night, for weeks, that was consistently and justifiably the top story. The APD worked tirelessly to solve this case wich resulted in the arrest of Williams, not for the child murders but for two adult males, he then became APD's chief suspect in the child murders based on the M.O. from the adult case.
An overwhelming amount of circumstantial evidence, nineteen sources of fiber and hair found on some of the child victims and in Williams' home matched. Later FBI DNA testing of Williams hair and hair found on one of the child victims resulted in odds of 130 to 1 against the hairs coming from anyone but Williams. Hair from Williams' dog were also matched with dog hairs found on the same victim with a 99% match. The FBI stated that the test results were significant but because the DNA profiles were not 100% matching the evidence was deemed inconclusive. The fact that the murders stopped after Williams' arrest should speak volumes regarding his guilt. There were even eyewitnesses who placed Williams with some of the victims before they disappeared. All this evidence pointed to Williams but no, KKK members drove into those neighborhoods, coaxed or forced black children into a car and then murdered them without anybody noticing?
Dog hair evidence is psuedo science and DNA hair strands were not that advanced then. A white man was seen with some of these children before their deaths so claiming the KKK wasn't involved is unfactual.
I think that the issue of whether Wayne Williams did or did not murder those kids is exactly what this documentary is not about. Because of the publicity and media chaos this tragedy eventually got, the story of these children somehow took a backseat and overshadowed by conspiracy theories. This documentary I think focuses the light back on the children and their families which is why Packer seemed reluctant to bring up Williams in the first place. It's not about him. We saw how the government responded through curfews, which made sense in theory, but kind of backfired and shifted the blame on the parents for negligence instead of putting more effort in finding the murderer(s). We see how vulnerable people are often put at a disadvantage and blamed for things that are not even within their control. And I feel that that's what we should be more concerned about right now. Not who these monsters were. But those whose stories we lost sight of.
happy2bweird well said
@@cgza7135 exactly why I stated DNA test were deemed inconclusive by the FBI but odds are tremendously in favor of Williams being guilty based on those test. Like I said there is a lot of evidence associating Williams with the victims beyond DNA testing. The fact that the murders stopped after his arrest, on it's own, is not proof of his guilt but added to other existing evidence weighs heavily in favor of his guilt.
@@happy2bweird I should have pointed out that my comment was in response primarily to other comments, not so much the documentary.
I have never heard that this happen???
who dislikes this? and why?
Amazing.
Tell the story C.R. Patterson. The first black man to own a car/bus manufacturing plant.
Please please please book Anna Konkle and Maya Erskine from “pen15” on the show.
We're all people no matter race there is no disconnect unless you wish to create a disconnect no matter color the poor has always been silenced and or ignored and sadly this has left negligence in thousands of similar cases throughout the US. SPREAD LOVE NOT DIFFERENCES.
Often .. despite our most ardent intent and desires ... the forces of white power racism makes distinctions between race that deserve addressing ... bc there ARE specific particulars that ONLY apply to black folk
AND ...
there are still tons of similarities along class lines just as you say.
Both be true @ the same time.... imho....
This dude has the right idea.
When is he going to interview Jussie Smollett lol
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I love you trevor!!
1:28 My man Trevor with the dismissive white voice.
0:01 sec in: "i don't know who this guy is but i'm hyped!" x). like dog with a bell. granted that is not an intelligent reaction.
I'm tired of our people sliding in the immigrant!!!
Good try Will! But you failed just like all the rest! I’ve been following the “child murders” for MANY years, and I’ve unfortunately come to the conclusion that these kids murders will continue to go unnoticed and unsolved! May those poor kids souls rest in eternal peace...
7:12 Those that don't have memes.
Atlanta is one of my least favorite cities in America. Now if they Legalize weed i might consider reevaluating that opinion.
You must have 🤪😱smoked TOO MUCH, Atlanta is a CITY, not a STATE!!
@@TheAureliac I LIVE
in Atlanta and that is NOT true!!! Don't post lies, this is 2019
we have 100s of ways to FACT check!!!
Amberly love I agree @ Atlanta being my least favorite as well...
@@donaldniang2617 No
problem we have enough negativity
here ,you two
STAY wherever you are!!
😬 I was high when I did this post. 🤣😂🤣
This is almost funny to me.
The internet is full of information new and old. So when one poster decides to post about how msm decides what interest them, someone has put this out on the net for anyone to consume. With every click you give to the kartrashians or whatever you click on you also choose what you subscribe to. This is a nearly 40 year old story. I'm not even from there but knew about this. There really is no excuse people. Make better choices.
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I never noticed that Hollywood doesn't put black people in movies. They're 13% of the population, so why aren't they at least 90% of the characters in movies?!?
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I am early, it's something
Horrible story... Poor those kids
This whole interview i was thinking, compare Get Out to Shutter Island. Make better movies and they will get awards. I understand the movement but c'mon.
when your message is inclusion, when in reality, the actors are exclusively black, you’re being disingenuous. It’s fine if you want to make a movie that only has black people. Nothing wrong with that.
But you’re actively segregating shit with labels like “black Hollywood.” are we maybe as a society, struggling between representation and segregation?
I see what you're trying to say, but you are dead wrong.
The idea is to work towards inclusivity through understanding and context, but in order to do so he has chosen to put real people into real situations about real life. Why would he star anyone else? As for his other films, they represent a challenge and a invitation to a new way of dealing with representation.
Shadow Fox it’s not inclusive if you’re by definition, making it exclusive to a specific race.
There’s nothing wrong with him doing this, either. Just stop calling it one thing, and claiming that you’re doing another.
@@HLVEYT That makes no sense. First of all, he is trying to bring light to a disenfranchised and ignored people, and by doing so he is including them into the mainstream. When a vast majority of Hollywood's output doesn't represent them, they have to work towards making it do so. You are approaching the problem from the wrong angle.
Shadow Fox I guess we can agree to disagree.
Netflix plz starr trevor noah in a Netflix original series and me with it. Can be rush hour 2.0
The crimes were solved! They arrested the murder and he went to prison.