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Good Morning, True Seekers and true crime junkies. Welcome back
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to another episode of Hit the Roadjack Finding the Zodiac.
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Let's welcome Nolan del Campo to the show.
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Good morning, everybody, Good.
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Morning, How are you doing this fine Friday.
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I'm going great. Didn't want it to rain though, but.
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I hear we're going to have five days of it,
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of course, with a flood warning. Good morning, Harriet. Let's
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welcome Harriet to the show as well.
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We have good morning to you and Nolan.
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I can't wait to see if we actually have floods.
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But there's definitely flood watches coming across California right now,
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or at least they're sending those notes out all right. Well,
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last week we left off on the parents' plights and
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their sighting of reasons for civil rights violations in the Atlanta,
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Georgia child killer case. So we are going to pick
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up where we left off. And of course when I
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started reading these, what I didn't realize is that I
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was reading the actual victim's name and then the actual
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pirate statement in regards to that victim's death. So we
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left off with Aaron Jackson last week, and mister and
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missus Aaron Jackson would like to know why Wayne Williams
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was not investigated earlier when their son talked about a
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William's acquaintance of his The victim's testimony was given to police,
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but nevertheless ignored Louby Geeter, which we did see in
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the ghost writer communication that we read the Curse of
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One Louby is his parents. Missus Assi Geeterer is disturbed
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by the informality and in different manner in which business
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is carried out in the Homicide Division of the Atlanta
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Police Department. She reports that her son's case was only
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pursued when a family member, also a police officer, saw
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the report of Louby's death on a shelf unattended and
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took it upon himself to bring it to the attention
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of the proper authorities. So it's almost if to say
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they're not investating these child murders if they're African American period,
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they're just basically shelfing them. But this one was obviously
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brought back in by a police officer from the department
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and brought to the attention of others. Timothy Hill, another victim.
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His parents Missy missus Annie Hill, is disturbed by the
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way that people have smeared the reputations of the children.
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She desperately wants the closed cases open and brought to trial.
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In the Christopher Richardson case, Missus Selina Kobb is upset
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because of the blatant racism she experienced with the DeKalb
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police investigating officer who refused to come inside her home,
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but rather sent for her and proceeded to investigate the
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case as she sat in her As she sat in
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her patrol car, Missus Cobb does not believe that the
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rich white residence of Dunwoodie would have been treated in
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the like manner in the Patrick Rogers case, his mother says,
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missus Annie Rodgers believes that her son's rights were violent
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because Cobb County closed the case on her son Patrick,
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despite the fact that prosecution attorneys during the Wayne Williams
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trial stated publicly that they were not charging Wayne Williams
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with the death of Patrick Robert Rogers. Cobb County, however,
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reported that they Cobb do not have another suspect and
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have decided to close the case. Nolan, did we just
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close cases when they don't have a suspect? Op, I've
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lost you, I've lost your stuff.
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There.
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You are.
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Normal practice for police departments that, especially.
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Homicides, right, I mean, those have an unlimited right statute
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of limitations right ongoing, and you should still be collecting
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information and any type of leads. And yeah, so very
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odd that they're just willingly closing all of these cases.
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Is it's almost again we have an inclusion with law
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enforcement and the media to close these cases out without
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actively even investigating them or investigating the wrong person, as
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we've seen in so many other cases.
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Well, maybe some of the high ranking law enforcement are
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affiliated with some of the killers exactly.
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Well, that would be kind of my notion. I mean,
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when we look at the John Manne Ramsey case, just
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what an over zealous law enforcement team that attempted to
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pin all of this on the Ramseys, even though they
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had evidence that esculpt them. So same same. In the
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Earl Tarrel case, Missus Beverly Bell is concerned about many things,
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including the way the parents were treated, the fact that
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the bones of more than one body was often thrown
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together and aired on television. She too, desperately wants to
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wants the closed cases open and brought the trial so
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that other perpetrators may be brought to justice. So we've
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got somebody who believes there's more than one person in
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thee and then I absolutely believe it. In the Curtis
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Walker case, now this gets even more interesting. Missus Catherine
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Leech is enraged that the best kept secret from the
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public in the in this crisis is the brutal manner
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in which most of the children were mutilated. It is
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common to find among the bodies castrations, hands, amputated feet,
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amputated lips, and ears cut off, as well as part
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of the face. Why the secret It reads like old
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fashioned racist killings.
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That's gross, yes, sick.
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If it's reading like a racist killing, then we're back
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to it's a white person, not a black person like.
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Wayne Will a group of white people.
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Right, and then when we take a look at the
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fact that Wayne Williams was you know, was tried and
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convicted for two murders. Was there any mutilation on these
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individuals or is there anything that cross connected or compared
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or showed the same moo? I mean it were indulved. Yeah,
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too much left open. I think it brings me back
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to the Golden State Killer in Joseph DeAngelo, where you know,
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he pleads out, but we never get to hear what
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evidence they have that connects him directly to these crimes.
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Just insane, all right, on to the next one. In
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the Darren Glass case, Missus Fanny May Smith wants to
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know why were the parents treated like suspects and why
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did the police have so little interest in investigating the cases.
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Missus Smith is the foster parent of Darren Glass, the
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only missing child. So I don't know if they've ever
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found this body or not, But this runs in tandem
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with the things we know about the Zodiac case. People
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go missing and they don't find the bones or the
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remains to say, like don alas you know, they found
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the skull in nineteen eighty six, but she went missing
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in nineteen seventy, so and then it took another what
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thirty years for them to actually even identify that it
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was donal Las's school, because we didn't get that answer
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until twenty twenty four. So it's wrapping itself right around that.
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Same m observations made by parents above are also commonly
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shared by many Atlantans, many of whom welcome the opportunity
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to repeat their observations and experiences that might hopefully bring
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an end to this nightmare. So it sounds to me
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like all of these people have thrown in their two cents,
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no be paid attention to their two cents, and there
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are so many questions that are still left unanswered, with
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twenty two children murdered and no one to answer for,
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and they just decided to close the cases. Absolutely astonishing. Yes,
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he cites.
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Publicly blamed Wayne Williams and never charge him with one
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of them exactly.
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That's again like what they were doing in the whole
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John Banne Ramsey case. Let's accuse accuse, accuse accused, but
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we never put forth any evidence. And while John Ramsey's
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being vilified in the media and attacked by law enforcement,
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his financial status decimated by this, his business has sold
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for pennies on the dollar, and for what in the
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end for us to find out that they had known
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as early as January of nineteen ninety seven that the
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DNA cleared him and his family just blows my mind.
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The Senator also or the representative also cites police indifference.
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Parents contend that the establishment of the Special Task Force
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was a much delayed reaction. They report that only after
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five of the children's death, in the face of constant
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cries for a special investigation, was a special Task Force
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set up to handle the cases. They could not understand
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the obvious limited value that was being placed on the
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investigating such a terrible string of murders of their children.
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They are now enraged at the sharp contrast that has
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appeared with the recent attempted murders of Atlanta lawyer Hirsch Friedman.
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Does anybody know who Hirsch Friedman is?
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I don't I heard of them, but I think even
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the Civil Rights will they are.
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Oh so somebody that was.
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Maybe, I think, but I'm not sure. I think he's
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connected to Martin Luther Kingside because I did a lot
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of crash course readings.
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Right, It's a lot to take in. So it goes
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on to say, within forty eight hours after the attempt
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on this white citizen's life. A task force was established
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to investigate it. Even the FBI announced within seventy two
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hours after the attempt that they would officially enter the
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investigating sighting or investigating Yeah, they mistyped this, the investigating
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sighting that their intervention was because of a possible violation
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of freedman's civil rights.
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Wow, so we might right, what's that they.
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Tried to kill him. That's kind of a violation of
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his rights.
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Yeah, the right to be there. The questions now on
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the parents' minds and certainly valid ones. Number one, were
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our dead black children from Atlanta's ghetto subject to the
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same equal rights of the law as an influential white
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male lawyer from Atlanta's affluent north side. And number two,
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had the children ben white, would the establishment of the
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task force taken place much quicker? I too, am bewildered
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and at a loss to understand the difference in the
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treatment in the two cases. As it is it because
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of color. Conclusion from the representative mister Reynolds. The case
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of Atlanta's missing and murdered children is one of the
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most heinous and bizarre crimes ever committed in the country,
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and indeed, the world because of it. Even the closure
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of the cases is one of the most talked about
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subjects in the city of Atlanta. The evidence presented above
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would provoke the question in the mind of any constitutional
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lawyer as to the violation of the civil rights of
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these young black children. Further, it is strongly suggested that
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a person or person's still running free were responsible for
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some of these children's death, So again alluding to a
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group as a possibility, and it definitely seems even though
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we had a couple parents who were convinced and rightfully so.
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I mean, when law enforcement and media attack person like
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Wayne Williams, it's easy to get convinced that he's your perpetrator.
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Just like a major portion of America really believed John
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Ramsey or Patsy Ramsey or Burke Ramsey had actively killed
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their own sibling and daughter. They can make you believe things,
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and so even these individuals who believe Wayne Williams was
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responsible for their death, it's like me looking at the
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Tim Miller case and his daughter. He wanted so strongly
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to believe somebody was the suspect, even though I've done
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the handwriting on that gentleman and told him that it
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was impossible for him to have been the Zodiac Killer,
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and that I find that the communications and his daughter's
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case are consistent with the Zodiac Killer's writings antiques claim
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for all of the atrocities that we've been talking about
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all the way up to this point. But it didn't
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stop him from continuing to believe that this individual was
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responsible for his daughter's death, to the extent of taking
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out a civil lawsuit against him and winning some godly
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amount that you know, this individual is never going to
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be able to pay back, So it happens.
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They just want to bury the They just want to
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bury these cases, you know, and move on. It's sad
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because that was a quick bury at the expense, at
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the expense of all these innocent people.
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I want to say. They said that the trial for
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Wayne Williams on the two murders that he reportedly was
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convicted of committing or dumping the bodies of, only took
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about eight or nine weeks, and then at that time
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these cases were already being closed. They'd already decided they
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weren't going to investigate them or attempt to close them
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on Wayne Williams. And that says a lot. They didn't
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have the evidence. So what if he knew, you know,
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I think they said twenty two or twenty three of
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the thirty victims, So what if he did. I mean,
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you're talking about a small area. People are bound to
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know each other. The population is nowhere near as large
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as it is now these days. You know, what are
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the chances that he's going to come into contact? And
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as Harriet said, he liked to interview people, he liked
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to have people on his show. He's probably more out
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there in the public than your average citizen.
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Well, yeah, a kid. He was a kid in the
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basement of his parents' home, interviewing civil rights attorneys and
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all kinds of amazing, amazing people, you know.