The Atlanta Child Murders Through The Eyes Of People Who Reported On It

Curtis Walker, Jr., left, holds the hand of his former wife, Ms. Catherine Leach, mother of Curtis Walker, III, a victim in the child murder cases in Atlanta.

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It was all about the children.

Black children, mostly boys, were missing and found dead throughout Atlanta. In some cases, they were strangled. In others, they were stabbed and shot.

Monica Kaufman Pearson, then a nightly anchor on WSB-TV, would come on television every night and recite the common phrase: