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were Wilson and Lenair—and (b) that she was “too old” at age 22, although the last acknowledged victim had been 23.
    Author Dave Dettlinger, examining police malfeasance Wayne Williams (Wide World API)
    in the case, suggests that 63 potential “pattern” victims were capriciously omitted from the “official” roster, 25
    of them after a suspect’s arrest supposedly ended the killing.
    Stephens, reported missing on the ninth and recovered In April 1981, FBI spokesmen declared that several the next day, his life extinguished by asphyxiation. Cap-of the crimes were “substantially solved,” outraging ping off the month, authorities discovered skeletal blacks with suggestions that some of the dead had been remains of Latonya Wilson on October 18, but they slain by their own parents. While that storm was rag-could not determine how she died.
    ing, Roy Innis, leader of the Congress of Racial Equal-On November 1, nine-year-old Aaron Jackson’s dis-ity, went public with the story of a female witness who appearance was reported to police by frantic parents.
    described the murders as the actions of a cult involved The boy was found on November 2, another victim of with drugs, pornography, and Satanism. Innis led asphyxiation. Patrick Rogers, 15, followed on Novem-searchers to an apparent ritual site, complete with large ber 10. His pitiful remains, skull crushed by heavy inverted crosses, and his witness passed two polygraph blows, were not unearthed until February 1981.
    examinations, but by that time police had focused their Two days after New Year’s, the elusive slayer picked attention on another suspect, narrowing their scrutiny off Lubie Geter, strangling the 14-year-old and dumping to the exclusion of all other possibilities.
    his body where it would not be found until February 5.
    On April 21, Jimmy Payne, a 21-year-old ex-convict, Terry Pue, 15, went missing on January 22 and was was reported missing in Atlanta. Six days later, when found the next day, strangled with a cord or piece of his body was recovered, death was publicly attributed rope. This time, detectives said that special chemicals to suffocation, and his name was added to the list of enabled them to lift a suspect’s fingerprints from Terry’s murdered “children.” William Barrett, 17, went missing corpse. Unfortunately, they were not on file with any May 11; he was found the next day, another victim of law enforcement agency in the United States.
    asphyxiation.
    Patrick Baltazar, age 12, disappeared on February 6.
    Several bodies had, by now, been pulled from local His body was found a week later, marked by ligature rivers, and police were staking out the waterways by strangulation, and the skeletal remains of Jeffrey night. In the predawn hours of May 22, a rookie officer Mathis were discovered nearby. A 13-year-old, Curtis stationed under a bridge on the Chattahoochee River 8
    ATLANTA “Child Murders”
    reported hearing “a splash” in the water nearby. Above ily. The clothes of victim Stephens also allegedly yielded him, a car rumbled past, and officers manning the fibers from a second car—a 1970 Chevrolet—owned by bridge were alerted. Police and FBI agents halted a vehi-Wayne’s parents. Curiously, jurors were not informed of cle driven by Wayne Bertram Williams, a black man, multiple eyewitness testimony naming a different sus-and spent two hours grilling him and searching his car, pect in the Jones case, nor were they advised of a criti-before they let him go. On May 24, the corpse of cal gap in the prosecution’s fiber evidence.
    Nathaniel Cater, a 27-year-old convicted felon, was Specifically, Wayne Williams had no access to the fished out of the river downstream. Authorities put two vehicles in question at the times when three of the six and two together and focused their probe on Wayne
    “fiber” victims were killed. Wayne’s father took the Williams.
    Ford in for repairs at 9:00 A.M. on July 30, 1980, nearly From the