Atlanta Child Murders

Watch the CNN Special on the Atlanta Child Murders (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJDaKUzeuF4) and answer
the following questions

1. Who did the police arrest for the Atlanta Child Murders? How old was he?

2. Camille Bell finally made the police listen to her about the disappearance of her son. What was his name?
Where was his body found? How did he die?

3. How old was Jeffery Mathis? Where was his body found?

4. How did the FBI come to the conclusion that the killer had to be black?

5. Describe Lubie Geter. How was his killed?

6. Describe the fiber Peterson found in January 1981.

7. What did Kathy Andrews see on Wayne Williams that made her concerned? What was his excuse?

8. Who was Terry Pue? When and where was his body found? How was he killed?

9. Why does the interval between the killings of serial killers often shrink?

10. Describe Patrick Baltazar. How did he die?

11. Describe how the Ku Klux Klan became involved in the Atlanta Child Murders. What was the end result?

12. How did Jo-Jo Bell connect to Wayne Williams?

13. How does Mayor Kasim Reed related to the Atlanta Child Murders?

14. What evidence was collected off Patrick Baltazar? How has he different from all future victims?

15. Why did the bridge stakeouts begin?

16. What was Wayne William’s story about what happened on the bridge?

17. Describe what happened to the nylon cord.

18. What happened when Wayne Williams took a polygraph test? How many times did he take a polygraph test?

19. What pieces evidence linked Wayne Williams to the victims?

20. When did Wayne Williams go to trial? How long did it last?

21. Who are the two murders Wayne Williams was charged with?
22. What evidence linked Wayne Williams to Nathaniel Carter?

23. What evidence linked Wayne Williams to Jimmy Payne

24. Describe what happened with the yellow blanket.

25. What evidence linked Wayne Williams to Patrick Baltazar?

26. What evidence linked Wayne Williams to Eric Middlebrooks?

27. What is Wayne Williams’s explanation for the fiber evidence and why it matches him?

28. What did Wayne Williams do when he took the stand?

29. What sentence did Wayne Williams receive for the two murders?

30. How many African American children have been strangled in Atlanta since Wayne Williams was arrested?

31. What was the problem with the ambulance driver’s testimony?

32. What do Wayne Williams supports say shows his innocence?

33. How do the FBI counter these claims?

34. Describe what happened with Robert Henry.

35. Describe how Wayne Williams alibi has changed over time.

36. Years later, DNA was run on the two human hairs found on Patrick Baltazar’s shirt. What was the result?

37. Describe Williams’s supposed connection to the CIA.

38. Write a paragraph (in complete sentences – proper grammar and spelling. Use appropriate terms and evidence
you read to support your reasoning). What is your stance about the case after researching and answering all the
questions above? Do you find Wayne Williams to be guilty or innocent based on all the evidence – new and
“old”? Why or why not? Explain and have supportive documentation.