The Atlanta Child Murders, known locally as the “missing and murdered children case”, were a series of murders committed in Atlanta, Georgia, United States from the summer of 1979 until the spring of 1981. Over the two-year period, a minimum of twenty-eight African-American children, adolescents and adults were killed. The subject was documented in James Baldwin’s nonfiction book, The Evidence of Things Not Seen. Atlanta native Wayne Williams, also African American and 23 years old at the time of the last murder, was arrested for and convicted of two of the murders.
In the spring of 1979, Edward Smith (14) and Alfred Evans (14) disappeared two days apart; both their bodies were found on July 28.
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