INVESTIGATION UPDATE (2024): The Case Breakers (CB) received a confidential lead on the decades-old location of this young boy during the Atlanta Child Murders. Thanks to our brave tipster, the team has uncovered a secret that should shake the nation.
The source is an anonymous black real estate Developer who has been designing and building in the South for decades. In 2017, he quietly began spending his off-hours researching how two of his young school friends ended up being on the notorious ACM list of 29 victims. As the driven amateur detective explained it, “It’s not enough to know who killed them, but why.”
Those terrible days as a teen don’t go away. “I heard the first was missing on the news, during the Christmas holidays. It was a surreal feeling because at that point in my life, I hadn’t lost anyone close. I didn’t attend the funeral. But when it happened to my second friend, it was pure terror. He was older, tough and into sports. We thought if he could get killed, any of us could.”
Wayne Williams was convicted of killing two young men in 1982. But just three days later, the Atlanta Special Task Force tacitly closed the 22 other victim files (19 involving children), disbanded the interagency unit, then publicly stated: “There are no other suspects and no evidence or concrete information that are connected to Williams.”
That official statement was respectfully not true — according to forwarded police files, federal memos and an on-the-record quote from an FBI Director (FYI: Since its 2013 creation, the 40-member CB has never been sued and never been wrong).
The rush to seal those 1982 case files of course didn’t sit well with the victim families, let alone the Developer. He put more time and money into his private quest, then expanded it to include all the victims – including the last missing child, Darron Glass (above). Supportive civil servants quietly helped this maverick hunt down the long-forgotten records, tucked-away reports and recordings.
Along the way, the Developer has faced apathy, ignorance, cover-ups and threats. But he says his deceased mother, siblings and The Almighty have kept him focused — with very specific directions, mind you: “God said to gather all files and data on this, and he’d show me the answer.”
Whether it was divine intervention or his God-given research talents, the Developer managed to stumble upon the CB website. The collaboration has brought him and the team just a few folders away from a bombshell:
Court documents and eyewitnesses from the 1980s have revealed that one of the South’s most powerful and influential African-American families – with businesses, apartments, farmlands and relatives in multiple states – allegedly requested and/or collaborated with officials to cover up a large number of the ACM murders. The CB also learned that three of the homicides actually occurred on this empire’s own properties.
Atlanta authorities were correct in 1982 when they stated that most of those youngsters were not “connected to Williams.” The truth lies in closed file cabinets and behind locked doors – and the CB plans to unlock them.
FYI, 2024: With this unpublicized investigation now concluded, CB founders Thomas J. and Dawna Colbert are now seeking a tactful production-partner for the documentary. Contacts: Manager Michael London: LonBiz@aol.com; the CB, toll free: 844-432-3456 (WGA & U.S. Copyrights).
Fascinating story! I cannot understand why the Preacher was freed(?)
Who is this powerful family? Those children all should have justice! If there was a cover-up with this family and government officials, it needs to be told!