The Atlanta Child Murders (Georgia, 1979–1981)

Between 1979 and 1981, at least 28 children, adolescents, and young adults were killed in the Atlanta area. Wayne Williams was eventually convicted of killing two adults, and law enforcement attributed most of the child murders to him. However, doubts persist regarding Williams’s culpability in some of the younger victims’ cases, and some families still believe the real killer (or killers) has never been conclusively identified.