Fiber and the River: Wayne Williams and the Atlanta Child Murders

On a black bridge over the Chattahoochee River, a surveillance officer hears a splash he cannot yet explain. Within minutes, a white station wagon crosses the water — and a case that has haunted Atlanta for nearly two years begins, at last, to break open.Between 1979 and 1981, the murders of nearly thirty Black children and young adults convulsed a city that had built its identity on racial progre...