Download or read book Murder and Mystery in Atlanta written by Corinna Underwood and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shocking story of the turn-of-the-century Atlanta Ripper and six other notorious cases from the dark side of Georgia’s capital city. Throughout 1911, Georgia’s Gate City was terrorized by a serial killer whose gruesome murders mirrored those of London’s Jack the Ripper. Only Atlanta’s Ripper claimed nearly three times as many victims—African American servant girls who, week by week, fell prey to the mysterious slasher. Like Jack, he was never found. His killing spree was just one in a century of appalling Atlanta crimes that would make national headlines. This chilling volume also includes the story of thirteen-year-old factory worker Mary Phagan, whose brutal slaying led to one of the most infamous trials in Georgia history. Journalist Corinna Underwood also explores the facts behind what came to be known as the Atlanta Child Murders and the conviction of perpetrator Wayne Williams; as well as the inexplicable vanishing of newlywed, Mary Shotwell Little. Still being investigated after forty years, the case of the “disappearing bride” haunts Atlanta to this day.
Download or read book The Series Of Murders In Atlanta written by Elias Alpert and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-06-19 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Atlanta murders of 1979-1981, sometimes called the Atlanta child murders, were a series of murders committed in Atlanta, Georgia, between July 1979 and May 1981. Over the two years, at least 28 children, adolescents, and adults were killed. In this true-crime book, you will read about how the Atlanta Child Murders case put a city under siege and how a task force of law enforcement officers from several different agencies eventually captured the killer. You will follow the investigation as the police use what was at the time fairly new techniques of criminal profiling and fiber evidence to capture and convict the killer. For many around the country, once the killer was arrested, it was difficult to accept. The killer was a young, nerdy-looking man named Wayne Williams. To many people, his background didn't seem to indicate he was a serial killer, but the professional profilers knew otherwise! Open the pages of the following book and learn the true story of Wayne Williams and the Atlanta Child Murders. You will learn about how Williams evolved from a nerdy kid who loved electronics into what is perhaps the most prolific black serial killer. You will be horrified by some of the details of this case, but you will not be able to put down this book.
Download or read book The Atlanta Youth Murders and the Politics of Race written by Bernard D. Headley and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1979 and 1981 a killer terrorized Atlanta, till Wayne B. Williams was convicted for several of these killings. Examining law enforcment and legal details, Bernard Headley tries to place the details of this event into historical perspective.
Download or read book The Evidence of Things Not Seen written by James Baldwin and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over twenty-two months in 1979 and 1981 nearly two dozen children were unspeakably murdered in Atlanta despite national attention and outcry; they were all Black. James Baldwin investigated these murders, the Black administration in Atlanta, and Wayne Williams, the Black man tried for the crimes. Because there was only evidence to convict Williams for the murders of two men, the children's cases were closed, offering no justice to the families or the country. Baldwin's incisive analysis implicates the failures of integration as the guilt party, arguing, "There could be no more devastating proof of this assault than the slaughter of the children." As Stacey Abrams writes in her foreword, "The humanity of black children, of black men and women, of black lives, has ever been a conundrum for America. Forty years on, Baldwin's writing reminds us that we have never resolved the core query: Do black lives matter? Unequivocally, the moral answer is yes, but James Baldwin refuses such rhetorical comfort." In this, his last book, by excavating American race relations Baldwin exposes the hard-to-face ingrained issues and demands that we all reckon with them.
Download or read book Pronounced Ponce The Midtown Murders written by Ray Dan Parker and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suburban homemaker Allison Embry believes she has gotten away with killing her young boyfriend… until she gets a call from his drug supplier with a proposition that threatens to destroy her family and the comfortable life she has built. Atlanta Police Lieutenant Paxton Davis, nearing retirement, must find the Midtown Murderer before he strikes again. For Davis, this case is all too reminiscent of the 1979-1980 child murders that marked the beginning of his career. Widowed newspaper writer Tom Williams plans to pursue his lifelong dream, to travel the US and chronicle his experiences. Then Tom receives word that an unknown assailant has killed a third lawyer nearby. As he ponders what else can go wrong, his daughter, a criminal defense attorney, calls to say she’s leaving her husband and moving home with her two sons. For Parker, storytelling is all about the characters. Here we meet an assortment of eccentric people, from the affluent to the destitute, the good, the bad, the unforgettable. Pronounced Ponce, Book Three in The Tom Williams Saga, takes us on a high-speed chase through some of Atlanta’s most colorful neighborhoods.
Download or read book The Atlanta Youth Murders and the Politics of Race written by Bernard D. Headley and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1979 and 1981 a killer terrorized Atlanta, till Wayne B. Williams was convicted for several of these killings. Examining law enforcment and legal details, Bernard Headley tries to place the details of this event into historical perspective.
Download or read book Child Killer written by Jack Rosewood and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the summer of 1979 through the spring of 1981, Atlanta, Georgia was held under siege by a serial killer and dozens of victims started to appear. The series of murders, which became known as the "Atlanta Child Murders case," gripped the city of Atlanta with fear and shocked the nation because most of the victims were children. The fact that the victims were all black and mostly male caused many in Atlanta's black community to fear that their children were being targeted by a racist conspiracy.In this true crime book you will read about how the Atlanta Child Murders case put a city under siege and how a task force of law enforcement officers from several different agencies eventually captured the killer. You will follow the investigation as the police use what was at the time fairly new techniques of criminal profiling and fiber evidence to capture and convict the killer. For many around the country, once the killer was arrested, it was difficult to accept. The killer was a young, nerdy-looking man named Wayne Williams. To many people his background didn't seem to indicate he was a serial killer, but the professional profilers knew otherwise!Open the pages of the following book and learn the true story of Wayne Williams and the Atlanta Child Murders. You will learn about how Williams evolved from a nerdy kid who loved electronics into what is perhaps the most prolific black serial killer. You will be horrified by some of the details of this case, but you will not be able to put down this book.
Download or read book The Atlanta Ripper written by Jeffery Wells and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-24 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the unsolved mystery of the Jack the Ripper-style serial killer who terrified early 20th century Atlanta, Georgia. As Atlanta finished rebuilding after the Civil War, a new horror arose from the ashes to roam the night streets. Beginning in 1911, a killer whose methods mimicked the famed Jack the Ripper murdered at least twenty black women, from prostitutes to working-class women and mothers. Each murder attributed to the killer occurred on a Saturday night, and for one terrifying spring in 1911, a fresh body turned up every Sunday morning. Amid a stifling investigation, slayings continued until 1915. As many as six men were arrested for the crimes, but investigators never discovered the identity of the killer, or killers, despite having several suspects in custody. Join local historian Jeffery Wells as he reveals the case of the Atlanta Ripper, unsolved to this day.
Download or read book Atlanta Child Murders written by Jeffrey Patterson and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You Are A Click Away From Discovering The Chilling Stories Of The Over 30 Black Children And Young Adults Murdered In Atlanta In 1979-1981 That Have Left The Families Of The Victims And The World At Large Still Wondering Who Was Truly Responsible For The Murders! July 25th 1979 After the buzzer signaling the end of their game sounded, Q, Teddy and other members of their team gather to shake hands, and the assembly breaks up. Q leaves the Boys' Club and starts walking home. As he nears the intersection, his friend Randy Joe Heast shouts out to him, while standing next to his car across the street. "Hey, man. Where you heading?" "Home," said Q. "Well. I can get you closer. I'm heading to the movies to meet up with a friend" "Thanks." Q crosses the street and joins Heath, and moments later, they drive off. The car pulls up near a bus stop and Q gets out.... Three days later, Louis Evans' (Q's mother) panic is uncontainable. She has not seen Q since July 25th. She has already called every one of his friends but no one knows where he is. Perhaps it's because the police are yet to identify two bodies of two dead children who had been discovered in Niskey Lake Road, and they need several more weeks. Q and Teddy are the two bodies. They had been the first two victims of a serial killer! And for the next 2 years (in the period between 1979 and 1981), more than 30 black children and young adults would die under mysterious circumstances that would later be commonly referred to as 'Atlanta child murders", leaving families heartbroken and still seeking answers, even to-date on who was really responsible for the murders. I know you are wondering... Why has the mystery never been fully solved? What were the lapses? What did the police do in handling the investigations? Who was the prime suspect and how were they 'caught'? What was the evidence? Was anybody jailed for the murders? Why were they interested in kids? Who were the victims and how did they meet their untimely death? If you're the type that likes your stories silent, mysterious and spine-chilling, then this true crime stories blockbuster is what your nerves have desperately been looking for. Given its delicate structure, and a style that epitomize suspense, drama and action at its finest, I'd advise you to put aside your current read for this one. This book features: The stories of the victims from the time they disappeared to the time their lifeless bodies were discovered How investigations were done How the murders were all connected Who was found responsible for the murders and how he was found responsible for two of the murders Why nobody was charged for most of the murders yet the cases were closed How the cases were reinstated several times years later and how they were closed again Why the world believes there was more to the murders than what came up during the prosecution Why most people believe that the police did a shoddy job And much more Even if you are not much into serial killer stories, you will love this one! Get your copy today and join me in uncovering this strange child murder mystery! Click Buy Now With 1-Click or Buy Now to get started!
Download or read book Atlanta Monster written by Michael Lister and published by Pulpwood Press. This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atlanta Monster is a box set of two thrilling murder mysteries set in Atlanta during and after the Atlanta Child Murders. John Jordan
Download or read book The Atlanta Co Ed Murder written by Glen C. Carrington and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Atlanta Co-Ed Murder is a story about who murdered a young attractive middle-class co-ed on a college campus. The body was discovered by the college security guard who stopped three young men, premiere athletes on the University's top performing sports team, trying to dispose of the remains. The young men were enrolled in an all male college and the murdered co-ed was the girlfriend of one of the three 'prima donnas' athletes. The young lady was a student at the all girl's neighboring college. The sparks begin to fly early when the male institution takes the preliminary position that the young men are presumed innocent and a former alumnus who has become a major national religious figure takes an interest in the case. Also, intentionally conspicuous legal council is hired to represent the athletes and it appears that a 'male' perspective is dominating the early agenda. But the opposite point of view is quickly consolidated by a high profile female administrator from the women's college who can match the passion and intellect of her male counterparts. The City of Atlanta becomes divided in this intellectual and legally charged debate on who's responsible for the murder of Carlita Valencia? Ms. Valencia's father is a well-known Atlanta attorney working for the law firm of Mr. Franklin Dillard, the renowned Bay Area legal scholar who lost his daughter two years earlier in the infamous Oakland Hills Vodou Murders case. The individual who solved that mentally challenging case, Detective William Monroe Lincoln, has been hired to help the Atlanta Police Department solve this homicide. The characters involved are sometimes as flamboyant as the rhetoric and the circumstances and Detective Lincoln must concentrate on the facts presented and not on the continuous ebb and flow of the non-material items which seem to constantly obscure his search for the truth. When one of the characters consistently exhibits a behavior of physical foreplay in responding to his questions, the detective brings in his formidable friend Lenny who can match pound for pound any physical threat presented. The case requires Detective Lincoln's analytical skills to be at their best in order to help the victim's parents bring peace to their lives after losing their precious daughter. The Atlanta Co-Ed Murder once again puts Detective Lincoln...in play.
Download or read book Facts Of Atlanta Child Murders Case written by Chauncey Henshaw and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-06-19 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Atlanta murders of 1979-1981, sometimes called the Atlanta child murders, were a series of murders committed in Atlanta, Georgia, between July 1979 and May 1981. Over the two years, at least 28 children, adolescents, and adults were killed. In this true-crime book, you will read about how the Atlanta Child Murders case put a city under siege and how a task force of law enforcement officers from several different agencies eventually captured the killer. You will follow the investigation as the police use what was at the time fairly new techniques of criminal profiling and fiber evidence to capture and convict the killer. For many around the country, once the killer was arrested, it was difficult to accept. The killer was a young, nerdy-looking man named Wayne Williams. To many people, his background didn't seem to indicate he was a serial killer, but the professional profilers knew otherwise! Open the pages of the following book and learn the true story of Wayne Williams and the Atlanta Child Murders. You will learn about how Williams evolved from a nerdy kid who loved electronics into what is perhaps the most prolific black serial killer. You will be horrified by some of the details of this case, but you will not be able to put down this book.
Download or read book Profile of a Killer written by Brent W. A. Henderson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if the metro Atlanta area is suddenly dealing with the probability that another serial murderer is killing children; this time preadolescent females at Stone Mountain Park, a large natural state park in the middle of the metro area? What if a Chief of Detectives and his forensic psychiatrist friend are charged with finding this fiend? What if the killer is a priest who has a sexual preference to young girls? This 81,100 word story follows exactly how law enforcement works to solve just such a case. The story begins with the discovery of a young female found in Stone Mountain Lake. Soon after, two early adolescent friends disappear, during a laser show while visiting the park. Then another young female is found on the golf course at the park. Chief of Detectives Theo Reed and his forensic psychiatrist work to find the killer. Detective Reed runs a task force and Aiden O'Brian, M.D. develops the profile which will direct the task force. While investigating both men have their own inner conflicts with which they must deal. The killer, an Episcopal priest is a youth minister and conducts the funeral for two of the victims. He is a tortured soul with enough anger and baggage to fill an entire mail train. To interrupt the investigation a copycat killer shows up and must be dealt with. Knowing the investigators are getting close the killer leaves, but sets up his departure to throw off the police by going to the Atlanta airport. He doubles back and takes AMTRAC instead. O'Brian realizes this and convinces Reed to change his plans for an airport arrest. The two men take a helicopter to board the train in another town, getting on the train unseen. What follows is an exciting chase involving hostages and a big chance the killer will escape. If he gets off the train they will be searching scrub pines and palmetto plants making it impossible to locate the killer Does he get away? You need to read the ending.
Download or read book Redbone written by Ron Stodghill and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lance Herndon was at the top of his game in 1996. At age forty-one he was a self-made millionaire, the owner of Access, Inc., a successful information-systems consulting company. As a prominent member of Atlanta's young, wealthy, and powerful set, he was surrounded by black Atlanta's "beautiful people." But when he failed to show up for work one day, friends and family started to worry. Their worry soon turned to horror when he was found murdered in his own home, his head smashed in—in what appeared to be either an act of jealousy-fueled rage or a seedier sex crime. With a laundry list of ex-wives and lovers, competitors, critics, and admirers in hand, detectives had to break through the city's upper crust to discover his killer. Journalist Ron Stodghill tells the riveting, true story of this investigation. Part investigative thriller, part sociological commentary, Redbone offers a truly intriguing story that channels insight into one of America's great metropolises.
Download or read book Stay Sexy Don t Get Murdered written by Karen Kilgariff and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The instant #1 New York Times and USA Today best seller by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, the voices behind the hit podcast My Favorite Murder! Sharing never-before-heard stories ranging from their struggles with depression, eating disorders, and addiction, Karen and Georgia irreverently recount their biggest mistakes and deepest fears, reflecting on the formative life events that shaped them into two of the most followed voices in the nation. In Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered, Karen and Georgia focus on the importance of self-advocating and valuing personal safety over being ‘nice’ or ‘helpful.’ They delve into their own pasts, true crime stories, and beyond to discuss meaningful cultural and societal issues with fierce empathy and unapologetic frankness. “In many respects, Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered distills the My Favorite Murder podcast into its most essential elements: Georgia and Karen. They lay themselves bare on the page, in all of their neuroses, triumphs, failures, and struggles. From eating disorders to substance abuse and kleptomania to the wonders of therapy, Kilgariff and Hardstark recount their lives with honesty, humor, and compassion, offering their best unqualified life-advice along the way.” —Entertainment Weekly “Like the podcast, the book offers funny, feminist advice for survival—both in the sense of not getting killed and just, like, getting a job and working through your personal shit so you can pay your bills and have friends.” —Rolling Stone At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Leaving Atlanta written by Tayari Jones and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-30 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the Oprah's Book Club Selection An American Marriage, here is a beautifully evocative novel that proves why Tayari Jones is "one of the most important voices of her generation" (Essence). It was the end of summer, a summer during the two-year nightmare in which Atlanta's African-American children were vanishing and twenty-nine would be found murdered by 1982. Here fifth-grade classmates Tasha Baxter, Rodney Green, and Octavia Harrison will discover back-to-school means facing everyday challenges in a new world of safety lessons, terrified parents, and constant fear. The moving story of their struggle to grow up-and survive- shimmers with the piercing, ineffable quality of childhood, as it captures all the hurts and little wins, the all-too-sudden changes, and the merciless, outside forces that can sweep the young into adulthood and forever shape their lives. PRAISE FOR TAYARI JONES "Tayari Jones is blessed with vision to see through to the surprising and devastating truths at the heart of ordinary lives, strength to wrest those truths free, and a gift of language to lay it all out, compelling and clear." -- Michael Chabon "Tayari Jones has emerged as one of the most important voices of her generation." -- Essence "One of America's finest writers." -- Nylon.com "Tayari Jones is a wonderful storyteller." -- Ploughsharesspan
Download or read book Killer on the Road written by Ginger Strand and published by Univ of TX + ORM. This book was released on 2012-04-04 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True crime meets cultural history in this story of how America’s interstate highway system opened a world of mobility and opportunity . . . for serial killers. Starting in the 1950s, Americans eagerly built the planet’s largest public work: the 42,795-mile National System of Interstate and Defense Highways. Before the concrete was dry on the new roads, however, a specter began haunting them: the highway killer. He went by many names: the “Hitcher,” the “Freeway Killer,” the “Killer on the Road,” the “I-5 Strangler,” and the “Beltway Sniper.” Some of these criminals were imagined, but many were real. The nation’s murder rate shot up as its expressways were built. America became more violent and more mobile at the same time. Killer on the Road tells the entwined stories of America’s highways and its highway killers. There’s the hot-rodding juvenile delinquent who led the National Guard on a multistate manhunt; the wannabe highway patrolman who murdered hitchhiking coeds; the record promoter who preyed on “ghetto kids” in a city reshaped by freeways; the nondescript married man who stalked the interstates seeking women with car trouble; and the trucker who delivered death with his cargo. Thudding away behind these grisly crime sprees is the story of the interstates—how they were sold, how they were built, how they reshaped the nation—and how we came to equate them with violence. Through the stories of highway killers, we see how the “killer on the road,” like the train robber, the gangster, and the mobster, entered the cast of American outlaws, and how the freeway—conceived as a road to utopia—came to be feared as a highway to hell. “Strand . . . Explores the connection between America’s sprawling highway system and the pathology of the murderers who have made them a killing ground. . . . The grim stories of murder on the highway may do for road trips what Jaws did for surfing. An interesting detour into a true-crime niche.” ―Kirkus Reviews “Strand’s cross-threaded tales of drifters, stranded motorists, and madmen got its hooks into me. Reading Ms. Strand’s thoughtful book is like driving a Nash Rambler after midnight on a highway to hell.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times “A titillating, clever volume that mixes the sweeping sociological assertions of an urban-studies textbook with the chilling gore of true-crime stories.” —Bookforum “Ginger Strand is in possession of a sharp eye, a biting wit, a beguiling sense of fun—and a magnificent obsession.” —Bloomberg
