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The Atlanta Child Murders
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If you've seen Netflix's Mindhunter then you may have heard of this case. From 1979 to 1981, there were about 29 murders in the Atlanta area that appeared to be linked. Most of the victims were boys, and all of them were black. The majority were young — and some were even children. The community thus dubbed the killing spree the Atlanta Child Murders. In 1981, a man named Wayne Williams (portrayed in the second season of Netflix’s Mindhunter) was arrested for the murder of two young men in Atlanta. But many soon believed that his trail of death may have been far more gruesome and that he was the man behind the Atlanta Child Murders
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