List of illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- 1. A city too busy too hate? -- 2. Two deaths against the backdrop of racial troubles -- 3. Where have all the children gone? -- 4. A summer of death -- 5. The pain of finding nothing at all -- 6. Select outsiders only -- 7. "We've got to end this" -- 8. Multiple suspects -- 9. The politics of federal aid -- 10. A dead body every week -- 11. A loud splash -- 12. A man with big dreams and peculiar activities -- 13. Pursuit and an FBI "interview" -- 14. The media Blitzkrieg and developing evidence -- 15. The D.A. makes a highly political arrest -- 16. Pretrial activity -- 17. The trial no one wanted to miss -- Epilogue -- Appendixes ; A. Special police task force list of Atlanta's missing and murdered ; B. Special task force guidelines -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
Between 1979 and 1981 a killer terrorized Atlanta, till Wayne B. Williams was convicted for several of these killings. Examining law enforcement and legal details, Bernard Headley tries to place the details of this event into historical perspective
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-234) and index
