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?
The police arrested Wayne Williams for the Atlanta Child Murders. He was 22 years old.
2. Camille Bell finally made the police listen to her about the disap
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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?
The police arrested Wayne Williams for the Atlanta Child Murders. He was 22 years old.
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?
Nine-year-old Yusuf Bell was found strangled to death almost three weeks after he disappeared. His body was
found on November 8 in the abandoned E. P. Johnson Elementary School. Bell's body was found clothed in the
brown cut-off shorts he was last seen wearing, though they had a piece of masking tape stuck to them. He had
been hit over the head twice, and the cause of death was strangulation.
3. How old was Jeffery Mathis? Where was his body found?
Jeffrey Mathis was 11 years old, and his body was found in a "briar-covered patch of woodlands," 11 months
after he disappeared.
4. How did the FBI conclude that the killer had to be black?
The FBI concluded that the killer had to be blacked because they thought that offenders of this type are fixated on
same-race victims. All the victims he is accused of killing were black. Several acquaintances testified at the trial
that Williams had a deep disdain for lower-class blacks, whom he called derogatory names.
5. Describe Lubie Geter. How was his killed?
Lubie Geter's body was found by a dog who was seen by landowner destroying rabbit traps in a wooded side of
Vandiver Road, near Enon Rd. The body was mutilated by animals. His cause of death was asphyxiation by
manual strangulation.
6. Describe the fiber Peterson found in January 1981.
Peterson realized they were seeing one green carpet fiber with a unique shape. This is a cross-section of that fiber
magnified many times. This fiber had two very, very large lobes and one short lobe. The lobes are the three ends
of the boomerang shape. The shape was the most distinctive feature of the fiber.
7. What did Kathy Andrews see on Wayne Williams that made her concerned? What was his excuse?
At one point in time when Wayne came from one of the sessions, he walked into the back of the studio, and he
had horrible scratches on his arms. She was concerned because the scratches were angry looking. His excuse was
that he had fallen into a bush.
8. Who was Terry Pue? When and where was his body found? How was he killed?
He attended the Challenge School at West Hunter St. Baptist Church and knew Lubie Geter and Lee Gooch. Terry
Pue's body was found off Sigman Road in Rockdale County by a passerby on January 8th. Dog hairs were found
on the body. Abrasions were on his elbow and bruises were on his head. His cause of death was asphyxiation by
ligature strangulation.
9. Why does the interval between the killings of serial killers often shrink?
The intervals between murders were shrinking, 19 days from Lubie Geter's disappearance until Terry Pue's death,
then 15 days until the next victim, soon 13, then 11, and, before long, a body a week. This is not unusual for serial
killers. They come to believe that they, in fact, are almost immune to mistakes. And they can take greater risks
because it's more exciting and because they're so superior they don't have to worry about the inferior police
catching them.
10. Describe Patrick Baltazar. How did he die?
Patrick Baltazar's body was found in Corporate Square, between I-85 and Buford Hwy near Briarcliff, in an
overgrown area behind the complex. Scrapes, bruises, and dog hairs found on the body. His cause of death was
asphyxiation by ligature strangulation.
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