HBO’s New Docuseries Reexamines The Atlanta Child Murder Cases

Evelyn Miller, Willie Mae Mathis, Sheila Baltazar and Annie Hill, all mothers of the missing and murdered kids of Atlanta, prepare to march down Auburn Avenue for a second annual memorial to the slain youths of Atlanta. (1984) (EPISODE 1)

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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?”