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Atlanta's Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
5 Episodes 2020 - 0
Episode 1
Part 1
Sun, Apr 5, 2020 60 mins
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 crisis. Outraged members of the black community call for swift action.
Episode 2
Part 2
Sun, Apr 12, 2020 60 mins
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 child in an area local police canvassed a day earlier and more and more children continue to disappear, the FBI is called to step in. We learn more about Wayne Williams, a local talent scout, who might have been recruiting some of the victims.
Episode 3
Part 3
Sun, Apr 19, 2020 60 mins
With the city's reputation on the line, law enforcement faces immense pressure to make an arrest. An FBI stakeout of the city's bridges leads investigators to 23-year-old Wayne Williams, who becomes the main suspect in the murders of two men.
Episode 4
Part 4
Sun, Apr 26, 2020 60 mins
Prosecutors introduce pattern evidence mid-trial that they assert links him to ten child murders. The jury delivers a swift guilty verdict in February 1982. Just days later, the Atlanta police department shuts down the task force investigating the 30 murders, and attributes most of the cases to Wayne Williams. A year later, as the dissent of an unconvinced community grows louder, the Georgia Supreme Court makes the controversial decision to deny Williams' plea for a retrial.
Episode 5
Part 5
Sun, May 3, 2020 60 mins
Wayne Williams' attorney receives evidence that ties the Klan members to the murders; An informant and several investigators stand together as Williams' retrial is being evaluated.
