Who Killed Atlanta's Children?
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Who killed Atlanta’s Children? is a TV movie about the Wayne Williams killings. This movie offers a conspiracy behind the murders of the children.
Wayne Bertram Williams was a 21 year old (as of 1979 when the murders started) Atlanta man who was convicted for the murders of 2 killings and pin pointed for 22 others.
Pat Laughlin and Ron Larson a two reporter/journalist for Spin magazine in 1992 who are pretty much set into their own lives and problems. Until Ron Larson gets a call from a Mildred Glover a member of congress in Georgia he doesn’t know. The woman from Atlanta tells Larson to meet the members of the mothers club, a club of the mothers of missing African American children in Atlanta. The woman called Ron Larson because the women in the mothers club don’t believe that Wayne Williams is guilty of killing their children or most of the other children. While the women don’t know how the children where killed or why the mothers think it has something the do with a child prostitution ring. As the movie unfolds Laughlin and Larson learn that maybe all of the killings had nothing to do with a prostitution ring and the reason for the disappearances and child killings are more connected with a certain group.
Someone Laughlin and Larson question says that there were five different police stations tided to the cases, and the cops were really disorganized. One night at a hotel Pat Laughlin goes outside the door for fresh air only to find a unmarked bundle. When Laughlin and Larson open the package to find Georgia Bureau of investigation files. There had to have been a letter in the package because next thing we know Laughlin and Larson are at the office of Georgia’s Bureau of Investigation asking if Aubrey Melton worked for the Bureau or still did. Like most Bureaus of investigation they acted like they’d never heard of Melton. Laughlin and Larson get a call from Melton, they urge Melton into talking to them. Melton agrees. Melton says there were more then the 24 killings the public heard about in the Wayne Williams case. Melton explains the reason for this is the police had a list of dead children to pin point the killers MO. Melton says that the coroner had not even given a reason for death of some of the children who had and hadn’t made the list. Melton said he and the Bureau had a informant who was under the cover of being part of the KKK and a follower of Royle McCullough. From the evidence B.J., the informant brings Melton and the others can get a wire tap on which they hear one of McCullough’s men admits that McCullough had killed a black boy already.
The movie explains that the capture of Wayne Williams as the killer in the Atlanta child murders was were the Georgia Bureau of investigations was lucky because Jack Johnson and other city officals needed someone to pin the murders on. At one point in the movie Chirumenga Jenga, a member of a black male group tells Larson that even after Wayne Williams was arrested and convicted of the murders of the 2 and pinpointed for the murders of the other 22, the murders continued. The evidence that Larson and Laughlin are given proves that several members of the mayor’s office and the Georgia task force including Jack Johnson should be in Federal prison for being government officials who staged a conspiracy even if it was to keep Atlanta away from a race riot, and Royle McCullough and his crew should be in state prison for Murder and accessory.
[edit] Cast
- Ron Larson/Gregory Hines
- Pat Laughlin/James Belushi
- Mildred Glover/Lynda Gravatt
- Wayne Williams/Cle Bennett
- Aubrey Melton/Sean McCann
- B.J. the informent/Bill MacDonald
- Royle McCullough/Shaun Doyle
- Chirumenga Jenga/Bill Duke
- Jack Johnson/Aidan Devine