Atlanta's Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children
Atlanta's Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children
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Atlanta's Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children

After 40 years, they deserve justice.

7.1 / 10
2020
1 season
5 episodes
DocumentaryCrime

This docuseries explores the period between 1979 and 1981 when at least 30 African-American children and young adults disappeared or were murdered in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children (2020) | Official Trailer | HBO

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Seasons

  • Part 1

    1.Part 1

    7.0
    05-04-202060m

    Long-held racial and economic divisions percolate in Atlanta. When African American children begin disappearing and showing up dead, the city is on the verge of an unprecedented cr...

  • Part 2

    2.Part 2

    6.5
    12-04-202060m

    By 1980, as distrust in the police deepens, citizens organize to protect their neighborhoods and take matters into their own hands. When a volunteer search party finds a slain chil...

  • Part 3

    3.Part 3

    7.5
    19-04-202060m

    With the murder count rising, law enforcement faces immense pressure to make an arrest. On May 22, 1981, an FBI stakeout of the city’s bridges leads investigators to 23-year-old Wa...

  • Part 4

    4.Part 4

    7.0
    26-04-202060m

    Prosecutors introduce pattern evidence mid-trial that they assert links him to ten of the child murders. Drawing predominantly on hair and carpet fibers found on the victims, the j...

  • Part 5

    5.Part 5

    6.5
    03-05-202060m

    In the mid-1980s, Wayne Williams’ appeals attorney Lynn Whatley anonymously receives shocking new evidence connecting members of the Klan to the murders. An undercover informant a...

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