Georgia Officials Fighting Effort to Release Klan File in Atlanta Child Mu

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Georgia Officials Fighting Effort to Release Klan File in Atlanta Child Murders Case

ATLANTA (AP) - The state attorney general's office is fighting a judge's order to turn over wiretaps of reputed Ku Klux Klan members collected during the investigation of the notorious Atlanta child murders of 1979-1981.

In a motion filed in federal court Tuesday, the attorney general's office also opposes the part of the May 31 judge's order that would give lawyers for convicted killer Wayne Williams access to juvenile records of a key witness.

Williams was convicted in 1982 of killing two young black men but was implicated in more than 20 other deaths in a killing spree that terrorized Atlanta's black community. He's serving a life sentence.

A local police chief last month reopened the investigation into five of the deaths, saying he doesn't believe Williams was involved. He was never charged in the slayings.

[kodi]

1. i'm betting williams took the rap for a group of wealthy white pedophiles

i have an old colleague who was an expert witness for the defense who told me that williams' and his mother were threatened with death if williams turned over on his accomplicies.

williams was just not smart enough to have pulled off all those murders alone.

[NVMojo]

6. I can't think of a more probably story, white rich perverts ...

[IndyOp]

2. OMG - I grew up in St. Louis, which lead in murder rate throughout

my childhood until the Atlanta Child Murders started. Maybe I was too young to grasp the racial motivation behind them. I hope they find the KKK'ers and justice is done. How horrible --

:-(

[Old sixties guy]

3. Racist links to Atlanta

Its obvious WHY the authorities tried to cover up the KKK connection-they knew that Black Atlantans would be up in arms marching in the streets like you never saw before.
They knew that blaming Williams would defuse a lot of the anger since the system could pin the crimes on a lone psycho rather than on a racist conspiracy.
Keeping the lid on things was the only thing they thought about.

[candy331]

4. What will they do if/when they determine he did not do it? I never

believed he did it. Seems a lot of these past injustices are coming to light. Is God spearheading the darkest of night before the dawn of morning?

[GarySeven]

5. Anyone who thinks Williams is innocent doesn't know the facts ...

I'm not saying that he killed all the children; there is no question that murders were attributed to him falsely. Nor am I saying he got a fair trial - he didn't. But those two facts alone does not remove the fact that he was guilty of at least the two murders for which he was convicted, if not several others. As someone who started researching this years ago - with complete certainty that Williams was railroaded - there is no doubt that Williams fits the psychological profile of a serial killer and that the forensic evidence indisputably linked to him (which isn't much but still unassailable) correctly tags him as guilty of murder. No "evidence" brought in the past 25 years has withstood the tests of accepted science (even in the pre-Daubert era) or FR 702 (even in the post-Daubert era.) Unfortunately politics played such a role in his conviction that it is impossible for many people believe this, and I am sure I will hear from a few of them on this board.

Two things that don't merit any discussion: First, the law enforcement person who supports the hypothesis that Williams was/is innocent; folks, he ASSASSINATED his political rival with hired thugs. Second, anyone who thinks "the Klan" had anything to do with this credits that organization with more craft and subtlety than can be supported by the remotest acquaintance with reality. They're the Klan, people, not the Impossible Mission Force.

Here are the documents, read 'em for yourself. And yes, it is the FBI, but believe it or not the 1980s was the only period in American history that the FBI really was a law enforcement organization:

http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/atlanta.htm

[lithiumbomb]

7. Louis Graham? Or Derwin Brown?

"First, the law enforcement person who supports the hypothesis that Williams was/is innocent; folks, he ASSASSINATED his political rival with hired thugs."

I assume you're not saying that DeKalb County Police Chief Louis Graham had anyone assassinated. As that was Derwin Brown. How does Brown fit in to the case? Was before my time, so I remember bits of all this on the news, but not any of the people involved with the Atlanta Child Murders cases.

[GarySeven]

8. I had forgotten about Graham, who isn't a nut ...

But Mr. Brown's statements should not be taken seriously.