Volume 32, Number 4 · March 14, 1985

Misjudgment at Atlanta

By Murray Kempton
The Atlanta Child Murders
written and coproduced for CBS television by Abby Mann

Just about three years have gone by since official Atlanta announced that the violent deaths of twenty-nine persons—most of them young boys—had been solved with the conviction of Wayne Williams for the murder of two of them. Now comes Abby Mann, a screenwriter of eminence, to challenge this judgment in The Atlanta Child Murders, which CBS broadcast in a segment of two hours on February 10 and three on February 12.



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