In Georgia will review all previously closed the case on the murder of 29 childrenthat occurred in Atlanta from 1979 to 1981.
For decades, Katherine Leach has never accepted the official version of who was behind the series of murders of children and teenagers in Atlanta 40 years ago.
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Her 13-year-old son, Curtis, was one of 29 children of African Americans who were killed in Atlanta between 1979 and 1981. During these three years the children disappeared from the streets, their bodies found a few days later. Many were strangled.
40 years later, Catherine Leach and many other victims ‘ families skeptical about the fact that the culprit was Wayne Williams – the man held as the main suspect, and who was condemned to life imprisonment.
Wayne Williams after his arrest Source: Wikimedia
Thursday, March 21, authorities in Atlanta announced that, together with the law enforcement agencies of the state and County will again consider the evidence in all 29 cases.
«The point is not to justify the Williams, but to give comfort to the families who have been searching for answers about the killer of their children,» said the mayor of Atlanta keisha lance bottoms.
According to bottoms, she spoke with Atlanta police chief Erica shields, to find out if you can be reviewed things, and she said Yes.
According to Catherine Leach, Williams was a «scapegoat». «They had to do something for us to reassure parents,» she said.
Although the Atlanta police Department in those years, has announced that Williams was responsible for most murders of children, to indict him failed for lack of evidence. So Williams is serving life for the proven murder of two men whose bodies were found in the river.
Leach and other families said they think of the Ku Klux Klan was behind the serial murders.
«Yes, these rumors then hovered in the air, and the police have considered this possibility, said detective Danny Agan, who was involved in three cases of «atlantska killings». – Many people tend to deny the facts, but there’s nothing wrong with re-examining the cases.»
Himself convicted Wayne Williams insisted that he is innocent. He told CNN in a documentary by 2010 that Atlanta was «in a panic» because of the murders, and it was easier to blame the African American, because the arrest of the white man could provoke unrest, «Atlanta would be in the fire.»
