Beginning 40 years ago, there were nearly 30 murders of Atlanta children over a period of 23 months.
In March 2019, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and Atlanta police Chief Erika Shields announced that, with the advancements in DNA technology, the city would reopen the cases, which were mired in controversy.
Monica Kaufman Pearson, then a nightly anchor on WSB-TV, would come on television every night and say, “It’s 10 o’clock. Do you know where your children are?”
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