Who Killed Atlanta's Children?

"Who killed Atlanta’s Children?" is a TV movie about the Wayne Williams killings. This movie offers a conspiracy behind the murders of the children.

Wayne Bertram Williams was a 21 year old (as of 1979 when the murders started) Atlanta man who was convicted for the murders of 2 killings and implicated in 22 others.

Pat Laughlin and Ron Larson are two reporter/journalists for Spin magazine who in 1992 are pretty much set in their own lives and problems. Then Ron Larson gets a call from Mildred Glover, a member of congress in Georgia. The woman from Atlanta tells Larson to meet the members of a club of the mothers of missing African American children in Atlanta. The women called Ron Larson because they didn’t believe that Wayne Williams is guilty of killing their children or most of the other children. While the women don’t know how the children were killed or why, the mothers think it has something the do with a child prostitution ring. As the movie unfolds Laughlin and Larson learn that maybe all of the killings connected with a racist group.

Someone Laughlin and Larson question says that there were five different police stations tied to the cases, and that the cops were disorganized. One night at a hotel Pat Laughlin goes outside the door for fresh air only to find an unmarked bundle. When Laughlin and Larson open the package to find Georgia Bureau of investigation files. There had to have been a letter in the package because next thing we know Laughlin and Larson are at the office of Georgia’s Bureau of Investigation asking if Aubrey Melton worked for the Bureau or still did. The Bureau denies any connection to Melton. However, Laughlin and Larson get a call from Melton, and they urge him to talk to them. Melton agrees and tells them there were more than the 24 killings the public heard about in the Wayne Williams case. Melton explains the reason for this is the police had a list of dead children to pin point the killers MO. Melton says that the coroner had not even given a reason for the deaths of some of the children who had and hadn’t made the list. Melton said he and the Bureau had an informant who was undercover investigatin theKKK and a follower of Royle McCullough. From the evidence B.J., the informant brings Melton and the others can get a wire tap on which they hear one of McCullough’s men admit that McCullough had killed a black boy already.

The movie explains that the capture of Wayne Williams as the killer in the Atlanta child murders was made because Jack Johnson and other city officials needed someone to pin the murders on. At one point in the movie Chirumenga Jenga, a member of a black male group tells Larson that even after Wayne Williams was arrested and convicted of the murders of the 2 and implicated in the murders of another 22, the murders continued. The evidence that Larson and Laughlin are given proves that several members of the mayor’s office and the Georgia task force including Jack Johnson should be in Federal prison for staging a conspiracy even if their intent was to keep Atlanta away from a race riot, and Royle McCullough and his crew should be in state prison for Murder or being an accessory.

Cast

*Ron Larson/Gregory Hines
*Pat Laughlin/James Belushi
*Mildred Glover/Lynda Gravatt
*Wayne Williams/Cle Bennett
*Aubrey Melton/Sean McCann
*B.J. the informant/Bill MacDonald
*Royle McCullough/Shaun Doyle
*Chirumenga Jenga/Bill Duke
*Jack Johnson/Aidan Devine