One child, Eric Middlebrooks, was discarded at a dumpster behind a local bar. The victims were shot, strangled, asphyxiated, stabbed and bludgeoned their bodies dumped in woods and rivers. It has been four decades since the Atlanta Child Murders - a dark period in the city's history when for three years, 24 children, mostly young boys, along with six young men, vanished from African-American neighborhoods. In their own words, some of those who experienced the infamous case first-hand have spoken to īy Louise Boyle In Atlanta, Georgia For.Prosecutor Joseph Drolet said most people who don't believe Williams committed the murders 'are totally unaware of the evidence'.Former city councilman Derrick Boazman, 52, told he does not believe Williams would have been found guilty in a court of law in 2019.Wayne Bertram Williams, now 61, was given two life sentences in 1982 for only two of the deaths - but his convictions led police to close the 22 remaining cases.Former Detective Robert Buffington was the one to discover the fibers from a victim's shoe that helped link the killer to the murders.

The victims were shot, strangled and asphyxiated, stabbed and bludgeoned, before being dumped in woods or rivers.The case is a major storyline in the second season of Netflix's Mindhunter, in which the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit agents explore the killings.

At least 24 black children and young adults, including Eric Middlebrooks, whose shoes contained fiber linked to killer, were murdered from 1979 to 1981.

Investigators involved in the Atlanta Child Murders have spoken to nearly four decades after the infamous case was closed.

Detectives who investigated Atlanta Child Murders that inspired second season of Netflix's Mindhunter reveal how fibers helped convict Wayne Williams - and why some still believe he is INNOCENT

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