1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,760 Speaker 1: Welcome to the special summer series of Atlanta Monster. I'm 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:07,440 Speaker 1: your host Jason Hoak. In this episode, we dive deeper 3 00:00:07,480 --> 00:00:10,800 Speaker 1: into the story of Sydney Dorsey, a legendary figure in 4 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:15,240 Speaker 1: Atlanta law enforcement, a figure with continued connections to the 5 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:19,280 Speaker 1: Atlanta child murders and some of them responsible for shooting 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:26,960 Speaker 1: the sheriff. It was around midnight December, going into December 7 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:31,440 Speaker 1: two thousand. My phone rings and it's the Decapp County 8 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:35,320 Speaker 1: Police Department. They're saying, Mr. Cardwell, are you okay? And 9 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:39,320 Speaker 1: I said, yeah, I'm okay. Would you please come to 10 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:43,240 Speaker 1: your door? So we slowly walked to the front door. 11 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:46,240 Speaker 1: I opened the door and there's a half dozen police 12 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:48,920 Speaker 1: officer standing in the miserable rainy night in front of me, 13 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 1: the waters dripping off the brims of their hats, and 14 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:54,680 Speaker 1: it's a bevy of local law enforcement. And they said, 15 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:58,240 Speaker 1: Mr Cardwell, the sheriff elect of Decapp County, Dorwin Brown, 16 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:02,120 Speaker 1: was shot and killed an hour in his front yard. 17 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:05,640 Speaker 1: He's dead, and quite frankly, we expected to find you 18 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:10,800 Speaker 1: dead too. It's surreal, you know, but it was reality. 19 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:13,160 Speaker 1: And they said, we need you and your family to 20 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:17,040 Speaker 1: get some clothes together because we believe we're just simply 21 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:21,280 Speaker 1: moments ahead of whoever it is that wanted the sheriff dead. 22 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:24,160 Speaker 1: They want you, dad, they want Jay Tom Morgan dad. 23 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:26,760 Speaker 1: There are a number of people that they've had on 24 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:31,840 Speaker 1: a hit list, and you're thinking, Oh my god, that's unbelievable, 25 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:34,959 Speaker 1: that's impossible, that could not You can't be telling me, 26 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:39,680 Speaker 1: wake me up. In Atlanta, another body was discovering today 27 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:43,560 Speaker 1: at police Task Wars headquarters. There are twenty seven faces 28 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 1: on the wall, murdered, one missing. We do not know 29 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:49,120 Speaker 1: the person or persons that are responsible. Therefore, we do 30 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:52,320 Speaker 1: not have the money from Tenderfoot TV and how staff 31 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 1: works in Atlanta like a love Another recent victims in Atlanta, 32 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:59,360 Speaker 1: Rogers apparently was asphyxiator Atlanta. It was unlikely to catch 33 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:04,520 Speaker 1: the killer unless he keeps on killing. This is Atlanta monster. 34 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 1: During our investigation, Wayne Williams and Dwyane Hendricks told us 35 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:21,200 Speaker 1: that Sydney Dorsey was the key to breaking open this case. 36 00:02:21,919 --> 00:02:25,639 Speaker 1: That he would have invaluable information that would change everything. 37 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:29,280 Speaker 1: You're going to get to hear from Sydney Dorsey. Uh, 38 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:32,120 Speaker 1: he was a person w person responsible. They put me 39 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:35,840 Speaker 1: in prison. The Dorsey, who is probably good. I agree 40 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:40,480 Speaker 1: to talk to you. He's willing to complete I mean, 41 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:47,320 Speaker 1: Sidney Dorsey is the key to all this. Dale Cardwell 42 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:52,040 Speaker 1: was a reporter and investigator for local Atlanta television. One 43 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 1: faithful night you got a knock on his door from 44 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:58,680 Speaker 1: local authorities. The night they brought him into protective custody, 45 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:03,560 Speaker 1: Cardwell had been tracking corruption happening in the local Decap 46 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:06,840 Speaker 1: County Police Department, a department that was led by Sheriff 47 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:12,200 Speaker 1: Sydney Dorsey. If you'll recall, Sydney Dorsey was part of 48 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:14,640 Speaker 1: an effort in the late nineties and early two thousands 49 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:19,800 Speaker 1: to reopen the case, along with Officer Louis Graham. Both 50 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:25,080 Speaker 1: Graham and Dorsey did not believe Williams was responsible. I 51 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:29,359 Speaker 1: frankly don't think that Wayne Williams has killed anyone. That's 52 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:32,880 Speaker 1: former Atlanta homicide detective sid Dorsey, who was with the 53 00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:36,120 Speaker 1: task force that put Williams behind bars. He's one of 54 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:39,440 Speaker 1: an unlikely group of people in the criminal justice system 55 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:43,120 Speaker 1: now coming forward to say Wayne Williams did not commit 56 00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:47,160 Speaker 1: the Atlanta child murders. I have never thought at Wayne 57 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 1: Williams was guilty of any murder that had not one 58 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:55,360 Speaker 1: of those dozens of killings, not one. People asked me often, 59 00:03:56,000 --> 00:04:01,160 Speaker 1: did Wayne Williams do it? And I says no. Jones 60 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:04,880 Speaker 1: disappeared in August close to this inner city strip mall. 61 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:08,400 Speaker 1: Hours later, he was found near at dumpster behind the mall, 62 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:14,280 Speaker 1: strangled wrapped in plastic. There was a young man who 63 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:19,400 Speaker 1: claims to have witnessed the murder of Clifford Jones. Dorsey says. 64 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:23,200 Speaker 1: An alleged eye witness described the strangling of Jones and 65 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:27,160 Speaker 1: identified the strangler not Wayne Williams, but a man named 66 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:32,160 Speaker 1: Jamie Brooks. I've always lived with the notion that Jamie 67 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 1: Brooks murdered the child. Brooks later died after serving time 68 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:40,280 Speaker 1: in prison for rape, sodomy, and kidnapping. And despite all 69 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:43,920 Speaker 1: that evidence, the task force blamed Clifford jones murder not 70 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 1: on Jamie Brooks, but on Wayne Williams. Dorsey was part 71 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:54,719 Speaker 1: of the task force that worked on the Atlanta missing 72 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:58,760 Speaker 1: and murdered cases. We recently filed an open records request 73 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:02,240 Speaker 1: with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation for details on all 74 00:05:02,279 --> 00:05:05,479 Speaker 1: evidence collected for each of the victims killed during this time. 75 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:09,120 Speaker 1: In these thousands of pages of records, we found many 76 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:12,880 Speaker 1: instances of Sydney Dorsey involved as an officer on the case. 77 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:16,119 Speaker 1: We also found that Dorsey was demoted in the police 78 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:19,640 Speaker 1: ranks in seven when he questioned the case around Clefford Jones, 79 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:23,320 Speaker 1: one of the victims. He filed a lawsuit and later 80 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:27,840 Speaker 1: had his brank reinstated. In an interview with the Atlanta 81 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:31,640 Speaker 1: Journal Constitution in two thousand five, Dorsey claimed that Larry 82 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:34,760 Speaker 1: Peterson of the GBI Crime Lab walked into a room 83 00:05:34,839 --> 00:05:38,880 Speaker 1: and told Dorsey and Yvonne Fuller Jones that those fibers 84 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:42,039 Speaker 1: are flying everywhere and that the fibers were also showing 85 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:46,080 Speaker 1: up on an investigator sport code. When the trial approached 86 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:49,840 Speaker 1: in Dorsey and others thought that new evidence would come out, 87 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:54,159 Speaker 1: evidence that hadn't been previously revealed to the public. When 88 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:57,160 Speaker 1: the fiber evidence was the primary thrust of the prosecution's case, 89 00:05:57,640 --> 00:06:00,360 Speaker 1: both Dorsey and Graham are called is that all there 90 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 1: is conspiracy theories are not. Dorsey continued on this path 91 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:09,680 Speaker 1: of doubt about the way Williams case. Dorsey said Wayne's 92 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:13,159 Speaker 1: father Homer called him in claiming Wayne had been set 93 00:06:13,279 --> 00:06:17,640 Speaker 1: up and like Williams. Dorsey also claimed he received calls 94 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:21,440 Speaker 1: from a mysterious female figure. The woman was worried that 95 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:24,279 Speaker 1: her husband, a recovering drug addict, might slip off and 96 00:06:24,279 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 1: try to buy drugs, and she contented Dorsey to tail him. 97 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:31,719 Speaker 1: While Dorsey didn't get directly involved, the whiff of conspiratorial 98 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:35,880 Speaker 1: talk creeps into Dorsey's narrative. Despite the police from both 99 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 1: Lewis Graham and Sydney Dorsey, the convictions in the Williams 100 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:43,400 Speaker 1: case were upheld in and way Williams remained in prison. 101 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:47,600 Speaker 1: The judge ruled that regardless of any evidence not presented 102 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:50,840 Speaker 1: at the time of the original trial, nothing substantial had 103 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:56,800 Speaker 1: changed regarding this evidence. But why was Sydney Dorsey so 104 00:06:56,839 --> 00:06:59,360 Speaker 1: important to this case now? What role did he have 105 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:01,760 Speaker 1: in the and A child murders? And why is he 106 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:10,160 Speaker 1: in a Georgia prison. The story of the sheriff Sydney 107 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:12,920 Speaker 1: Dorsey is also one of the most bizarre murder cases 108 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:21,800 Speaker 1: in US history. Dale Cardwell remembered not only the Atlanta 109 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:29,320 Speaker 1: child murders, but also Sydney Dorsey. My name is Dale Cardwell. 110 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:32,480 Speaker 1: I spent twenty five years as a conventional investigative reporter, 111 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:37,040 Speaker 1: most of that at WSB. People trusted that I would 112 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:39,720 Speaker 1: tell the story, keep them anonymous if they deserved to 113 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:45,400 Speaker 1: be capta anonymous. I remember thinking, why can't they figure 114 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:48,360 Speaker 1: this out? Who in the world could be doing this, 115 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:52,040 Speaker 1: obviously in such a public manner and be doing it 116 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:56,560 Speaker 1: without anyone catching them? What? A lot of people in 117 00:07:56,600 --> 00:08:00,440 Speaker 1: my demographic thought, Okay, they got him, let's put him 118 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:07,840 Speaker 1: on trial, put him away, and let's move on. Dorsey 119 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:11,520 Speaker 1: was intimately involved in the investigation. In fact, he was 120 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:13,840 Speaker 1: part of the team that was in Wayne's house when 121 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:17,800 Speaker 1: evidence was collected. And Dorsey had always been a big 122 00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:26,320 Speaker 1: personality in Atlanta. I moved to Atlanta and you couldn't 123 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:31,360 Speaker 1: go anywhere without hearing the name Sydney Dorsey. Covering general 124 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:35,439 Speaker 1: news and being a consumer investigator at the time, you're 125 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:41,640 Speaker 1: running into his name often. Sydney was very aggressive, very personal, 126 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:46,079 Speaker 1: had a charismatic way of presenting himself. He was considered 127 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:50,840 Speaker 1: a cowboy, and so there are stories about his activities. 128 00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:54,680 Speaker 1: He was known in the community as as a guy 129 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:57,320 Speaker 1: that would rough you up, and so kids in the 130 00:08:57,320 --> 00:09:01,200 Speaker 1: community were petrified of it. He would through the neighborhoods 131 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:05,000 Speaker 1: and people were scared of him. He had two things 132 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:08,160 Speaker 1: going for him. He was charismatic. Plus he had the blue. 133 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:10,359 Speaker 1: He was wearing the blue, so he was all powerful. 134 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:16,120 Speaker 1: There's one story of a kid hiding underneath a house 135 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:19,559 Speaker 1: and Sydney Dorsey going underneath the house and the cross 136 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:23,880 Speaker 1: base and just simply firing his weapon indiscriminately into the darkness. 137 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:29,160 Speaker 1: Sydney Dorsey was ambitious and he had his eyes set 138 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:33,960 Speaker 1: on a bigger prize. The sky was not the limit 139 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:39,079 Speaker 1: for him. He felt driven to be something far beyond 140 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 1: what he had already become. He had incredible self confidence. 141 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:51,599 Speaker 1: He started earning the respect and the support of the 142 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:56,000 Speaker 1: African American church community into Capp County. Still, no one 143 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:59,520 Speaker 1: dreamed that he could ever topple the system and become 144 00:09:59,559 --> 00:10:03,719 Speaker 1: the first elected African American sheriff, not only in the 145 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:06,320 Speaker 1: Cab County, but in the state of Georgia. And he 146 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:11,760 Speaker 1: did just that, and it was stunning. He was this 147 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:16,320 Speaker 1: prolific Atlanta homicide police detective in the seventies and eighties 148 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:19,280 Speaker 1: at a time when there were very few African American 149 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:23,040 Speaker 1: police officers on the beat. As the white power structure 150 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:27,600 Speaker 1: transitioned to a black power structure, Frankly, white people wanted 151 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:31,520 Speaker 1: to keep their control over that transition. So there were 152 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:35,520 Speaker 1: hands selected African Americans that were brought into the mix, 153 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:39,720 Speaker 1: very capable, but they knew that there were white people 154 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:43,040 Speaker 1: that wanted them in those positions. In a sense that 155 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:47,079 Speaker 1: gave rise to the fact that they were untouchable. They 156 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:51,959 Speaker 1: were not monitored and managed in the same way that 157 00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:54,600 Speaker 1: you would normally bring in someone and move them through 158 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:58,480 Speaker 1: the police ranks. They were handled with kids clubs, and 159 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:00,400 Speaker 1: they were able to get away with stuff that a 160 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:04,040 Speaker 1: conventional officer was not able to get away with. Sydney 161 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:07,120 Speaker 1: Dorsey's run a sheriff was not to go unchecked, though 162 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:11,960 Speaker 1: he handily defeated opponent Derwin Brown. Brown would challenge Dorsey 163 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:15,000 Speaker 1: again in two thousand. Derwin Brown was a decap county 164 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:17,720 Speaker 1: police officer. By all accounts, he was straight laced, he 165 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:21,360 Speaker 1: treated people fairly, He was very involved in his community. 166 00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:25,720 Speaker 1: He truly cared about the community. He was a very 167 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:30,080 Speaker 1: very pro union police officer, and so therefore the county 168 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:33,760 Speaker 1: management could not stand him. They were at constant odds 169 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:36,680 Speaker 1: because Derwin Brown was always trying to fight for police 170 00:11:36,679 --> 00:11:38,640 Speaker 1: officers rights and he was not afraid to be in 171 00:11:38,640 --> 00:11:42,640 Speaker 1: the lead in that fight. They were okay to keep 172 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:45,840 Speaker 1: him in this place as long as they could control him, 173 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:49,280 Speaker 1: keep him as a decapped county officer. Yeah, he's rattling 174 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:52,400 Speaker 1: sabers and talking about better pay for police officers. But 175 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:54,480 Speaker 1: as long as we keep him there, we're okay. They 176 00:11:54,559 --> 00:11:58,199 Speaker 1: never dreamed that he could break out of that paradigm, 177 00:11:58,280 --> 00:12:00,720 Speaker 1: and the thought of him running for sheriff and actually 178 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:08,480 Speaker 1: winning the office was unthinkable. I was at a dairy queen. 179 00:12:08,760 --> 00:12:10,880 Speaker 1: It was late in the evening, and I'm standing in 180 00:12:10,920 --> 00:12:14,079 Speaker 1: line and a guy behind me says, hey, you're Dale 181 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:17,800 Speaker 1: Cardwell with Channel two. I've got the story of the year, 182 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:20,640 Speaker 1: but I don't think you've got the courage to tell it. 183 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:25,400 Speaker 1: I said, Okay, try me, and he said, the sheriff 184 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:28,680 Speaker 1: of De Cab County is using on duty sheriff's deputies 185 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:33,200 Speaker 1: to man his private security jobs all over me to Atlanta, 186 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:38,200 Speaker 1: and nobody will do anything about it. He's using on 187 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:41,120 Speaker 1: duty deputies who are being paid by the taxpayers, and 188 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:46,040 Speaker 1: then he's dispatching them to banks, shopping centers, all kinds 189 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:50,560 Speaker 1: of commercial establishments where the sheriff has private security contracts 190 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:54,439 Speaker 1: with those establishments through his side business called s and 191 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:59,520 Speaker 1: s security and I said that's crazy. There's no way 192 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:01,920 Speaker 1: that he could get away with that. He says, yeah, 193 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:04,800 Speaker 1: well he is because everybody is afraid of this guy, 194 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:08,600 Speaker 1: and nobody will bust that story. I was notive enough 195 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:11,680 Speaker 1: to think I'll bust that story. If I can determine 196 00:13:11,679 --> 00:13:16,000 Speaker 1: that it's true, I'll tell that story. He wanted anonymity, 197 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:20,400 Speaker 1: obviously for reasons that Sydney controlled a lot of jobs 198 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:23,280 Speaker 1: in the county. And I started digging, it's what I do, 199 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:32,520 Speaker 1: and I found that he told me the truth. I 200 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:39,080 Speaker 1: saw Sydney Dorsey's name everywhere on every Sheriff's Department vehicle, 201 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:44,880 Speaker 1: on every entrance to every building that's controlled by the 202 00:13:44,920 --> 00:13:49,520 Speaker 1: decamped county Sheriff's Department. Sydney was a promoter, par excellant. 203 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:54,000 Speaker 1: No one could touch him in self promotion. He was 204 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:56,600 Speaker 1: on television every chance he had it to be on television. 205 00:13:57,880 --> 00:14:01,960 Speaker 1: He was building an incredible hatronage system for himself where 206 00:14:02,240 --> 00:14:06,560 Speaker 1: people owed him for the jobs they had. I think 207 00:14:06,559 --> 00:14:10,600 Speaker 1: that he could envision no possibility of losing the election. 208 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:14,120 Speaker 1: Everyone around him had to be and was a fan 209 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:16,679 Speaker 1: of Sydney Dorsey. They told him that he was great. 210 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:19,520 Speaker 1: He heard every day that he was great. I don't 211 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:23,680 Speaker 1: think anyone ever challenged him at all. Shockingly, Dorsey did 212 00:14:23,720 --> 00:14:27,000 Speaker 1: not win his re election for sheriff after being forced 213 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:29,600 Speaker 1: into a runoff election with Brown, but no one saw 214 00:14:29,640 --> 00:14:34,200 Speaker 1: coming Brown ended up winning easily in the runoff. Well. 215 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:36,880 Speaker 1: On election night it was it was a stunner of 216 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:41,400 Speaker 1: Darwin Brown one three to one. This guy who was 217 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:44,240 Speaker 1: destined to be a street cop suddenly became the most 218 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:48,480 Speaker 1: powerful person into Cap County. When you manage a three 219 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:52,720 Speaker 1: hundred plus million dollar budget a year with zero governing, 220 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:54,720 Speaker 1: you're in charge of all of it. All of a 221 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:58,800 Speaker 1: sudden you're the king. And I don't think that that's 222 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:02,520 Speaker 1: what he was after. I think he was after the 223 00:15:02,520 --> 00:15:04,920 Speaker 1: belief that he can make a difference, and it suddenly 224 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:07,240 Speaker 1: he had the power to make a difference. So it 225 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:12,120 Speaker 1: was euphoria for him. It was utter defeat for Sydney 226 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:15,160 Speaker 1: Dorsey two time. Morgan had been through his own campaign 227 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:19,640 Speaker 1: that year to becoming Decab County's new district attorney. As 228 00:15:19,640 --> 00:15:24,760 Speaker 1: the sheriff has little to do with the investigational crops um. 229 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:29,040 Speaker 1: He's more a gatekeeper and guard of the jail. Now 230 00:15:29,080 --> 00:15:32,040 Speaker 1: our jail is the biggest jail decide of the Mississippi River. 231 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:36,800 Speaker 1: In December two thousand, a series of unbelievable events would 232 00:15:36,880 --> 00:15:39,880 Speaker 1: change local law enforcement history and the faiths of Sydney 233 00:15:39,880 --> 00:15:56,840 Speaker 1: Dorsey and Durham Brown forever. I think it was anger first, 234 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:00,840 Speaker 1: disbelief second, and I think they started looking for people 235 00:16:00,840 --> 00:16:05,680 Speaker 1: to blame, and clearly Derwin Brown was to blame for this. 236 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:10,040 Speaker 1: It's called sheriff's school. You get two weeks learned how 237 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:14,640 Speaker 1: to be a hotel manager with a gun. When Brown 238 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:16,760 Speaker 1: returned to his home that night, he was shot and 239 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:21,880 Speaker 1: killed in his driveway by unknown assailants. The people that 240 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:26,480 Speaker 1: perpetrated the crime for him, led by Patrick Cuffey. Three 241 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:28,680 Speaker 1: of them were to Cab County Sheriff's deputies that had 242 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:32,160 Speaker 1: no credentials. They should never have been sworn in as 243 00:16:32,160 --> 00:16:36,960 Speaker 1: police officers, criminal records, no training. Patrick Cuffey was the 244 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:41,520 Speaker 1: second highest paid law officer in the county, next to 245 00:16:41,560 --> 00:16:45,320 Speaker 1: Sydney Dorsey. The assailants weren't random shooters with a grudge 246 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:48,480 Speaker 1: against their new sheriff. They were inside the sheriff's department 247 00:16:48,680 --> 00:16:50,880 Speaker 1: and included on a list of employees that would not 248 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:54,120 Speaker 1: be returning to the department. Once Brown officially started as 249 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:57,120 Speaker 1: sheriff of the Cab County. Brown thought he was doing 250 00:16:57,160 --> 00:16:59,800 Speaker 1: these officers a favor by giving them notice that they 251 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:03,400 Speaker 1: not be returning, but instead it ended up providing a motive, 252 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:07,760 Speaker 1: a motive to get even. At that time, I had 253 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:10,280 Speaker 1: a decision to make, and they gave me the opportunity 254 00:17:10,320 --> 00:17:14,119 Speaker 1: to make the decision. You know, fail, You're a valuable employee, 255 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:17,440 Speaker 1: You're a really good reporter, but no one could expect 256 00:17:17,520 --> 00:17:21,720 Speaker 1: you to continue this line of investigation. Your life's in danger, 257 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:25,680 Speaker 1: it's clearly been threatened. You have the opportunity to move 258 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:29,359 Speaker 1: off this story. I thought about it, and I said, 259 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:31,680 Speaker 1: this is what I'm supposed to do. I'm in this 260 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:36,080 Speaker 1: position for a reason, and if I quit following this, 261 00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:39,679 Speaker 1: then the forces of evil are going to win. So 262 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:42,360 Speaker 1: I felt compelled that I had to keep telling the story. 263 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:45,800 Speaker 1: And just because the person who had been accused of 264 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:49,080 Speaker 1: the murderer and the corruption was now in custody, it 265 00:17:49,119 --> 00:17:51,960 Speaker 1: didn't change the fact that we were continuing to unravel 266 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:59,000 Speaker 1: stories of unbelievable corruption. And all these years later, I realized, Wow, 267 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:02,359 Speaker 1: that's taken a toll on me. But I didn't realize 268 00:18:02,359 --> 00:18:07,640 Speaker 1: it at the time. My actions then had significant implications 269 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:11,520 Speaker 1: for my family. My daughter to this day has nightmares 270 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:14,000 Speaker 1: that something has happened to her dad. She'll call me up, 271 00:18:14,119 --> 00:18:16,520 Speaker 1: She'll say, I had the dream again. I had the 272 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:20,920 Speaker 1: dream again. J Tom Morgan, to Cab County's newly elected 273 00:18:20,960 --> 00:18:25,280 Speaker 1: district Attorney, was also a target, and despite his initial resistance, 274 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:31,120 Speaker 1: he also received help from police officials. Initially, I would 275 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:36,960 Speaker 1: not accept any type of bodyguard or drab or anything 276 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:40,840 Speaker 1: like that. It was only later is that I got 277 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:45,960 Speaker 1: a confidential disclosure from the town left seeing one of 278 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:50,000 Speaker 1: the four that my life was in danger, and that's 279 00:18:50,040 --> 00:18:54,439 Speaker 1: when I started with a round the top protection. We 280 00:18:54,520 --> 00:18:58,920 Speaker 1: took it very seriously. Um it was no rocking for 281 00:18:59,119 --> 00:19:02,320 Speaker 1: me and my family and my children. We did not 282 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:04,879 Speaker 1: tell the kids that much, that they just had to 283 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:08,439 Speaker 1: be very careful and there would be somebody, you know, 284 00:19:08,520 --> 00:19:11,640 Speaker 1: walking them home from school. There will be somebody when 285 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:14,800 Speaker 1: they got home from school. And I never carried again 286 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:21,720 Speaker 1: until that time. Derwin Brown was dead. Metro Atlanta was 287 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:25,480 Speaker 1: shocked by what had happened. There was a buzz in 288 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:30,640 Speaker 1: the city. No one was in custody for his murder, 289 00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:42,159 Speaker 1: but the suspects were hiding in plain sight. Nice to 290 00:19:42,359 --> 00:19:48,119 Speaker 1: Dale Cardwell's inside information and his newscast, the public and 291 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:55,399 Speaker 1: myself more and more about what was going on. He 292 00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:59,840 Speaker 1: had literally run this past people, you know, saying, you know, 293 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:04,199 Speaker 1: if something happened to Darwin Brown, God forbid, what do 294 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:06,920 Speaker 1: you think would happen? And all the Sinkaphan said, well, 295 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:10,440 Speaker 1: you would immediately be voted back in, They would appoint 296 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:12,720 Speaker 1: you as the interim sheriff, and then there would be 297 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:16,720 Speaker 1: a special election, and obviously you're the logical candidate. And 298 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:21,879 Speaker 1: he truly believed that that's what would happen. When you 299 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:25,560 Speaker 1: have a case like this, you draw a small circle 300 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:29,879 Speaker 1: around someone who's been drawn from the inside out. The 301 00:20:29,920 --> 00:20:33,680 Speaker 1: only person that would seem to have a motive Business Dorsey. 302 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:40,080 Speaker 1: Dorsey had this crazy idea that once Darvan was noted, 303 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:42,760 Speaker 1: that he could run in a special election and get 304 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:47,960 Speaker 1: his job back. We also sent in Fred May's, the 305 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:52,840 Speaker 1: GBI director, Fred head of the GBI investigation not only 306 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:56,200 Speaker 1: of the corruption but of the murder. But Fred went 307 00:20:56,200 --> 00:21:00,359 Speaker 1: into Ms Dorsey's office and was secretly wired and question 308 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:04,240 Speaker 1: him and Mr Dorsey says, and he thinks he's having 309 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:08,280 Speaker 1: a private conversation with Agent Mays, and he says, and 310 00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:11,880 Speaker 1: I quote Drwin Brown is the most god awful son 311 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:16,480 Speaker 1: of the pitch I've ever met him entire life. One 312 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:22,000 Speaker 1: of Dorsey's methods of communication was legendary eating the evidence. 313 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:27,399 Speaker 1: Mr Dorsey had his habit that if he wanted something 314 00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:30,440 Speaker 1: to destroyed, he would eat it. There was a check 315 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:35,760 Speaker 1: written by bondsman for a broad and when she paid 316 00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:39,520 Speaker 1: the bribe with the check, Dorsey ate the check. He said, 317 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:43,000 Speaker 1: you only pay him cash. There was another instance with 318 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:47,639 Speaker 1: the same boss, uh Suley Michael when they were in 319 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:51,200 Speaker 1: a restaurant and we had ms mclickhel wired and Dorsey 320 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:54,280 Speaker 1: became suspicious and he write on the napkin are you wired? 321 00:21:54,359 --> 00:21:57,680 Speaker 1: Handed it to his mut Bible and that the napkin 322 00:21:57,760 --> 00:22:00,240 Speaker 1: back and hate it. And then Keffie told all this 323 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:02,480 Speaker 1: that and when he went to see Dorsey, he had 324 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:05,600 Speaker 1: gotten the phone. Called to go see Dorsey. Dorsey answered 325 00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:09,520 Speaker 1: the front door where nothing that is bad? From handing 326 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:13,200 Speaker 1: it a copy of note is that Kilda and Brown 327 00:22:13,359 --> 00:22:16,040 Speaker 1: copy read note. Dorsey took it back, put in his 328 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:22,119 Speaker 1: mouth and ate it. This Dorsey was arrested at his 329 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:26,520 Speaker 1: first appearance hearing how we're called. Vividly walking my son 330 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:29,359 Speaker 1: to school and we had to pass the courthouse and 331 00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:32,159 Speaker 1: there would be protesters out there protesting against me and 332 00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:37,040 Speaker 1: for Dorsey and saying that I was prosecuting an innocent man. 333 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:47,200 Speaker 1: It is the most dramatic moment of my career. Every 334 00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:50,680 Speaker 1: judge does it differently. Judge Becker and I had tried 335 00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:53,000 Speaker 1: cases before her before, and I knew she was going 336 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:56,320 Speaker 1: to make the prosecutor read the verdict. I knew that 337 00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:58,800 Speaker 1: was going to be very difficult, but I was amazingly 338 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:05,560 Speaker 1: calm read the jury by the defendant as to count 339 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:10,720 Speaker 1: one guilty, as to account to guilty, as to count 340 00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:16,119 Speaker 1: three guilty as account for not guilty, as to county 341 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:21,080 Speaker 1: by not guilty, as to count sis guilty, as to 342 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:27,720 Speaker 1: count set guilty as account a guilty, as account that guilty, 343 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:33,600 Speaker 1: as accounting ten guilt, as account of eleven guilty, account 344 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:39,440 Speaker 1: twelve guilty, account of thirteen guilty, as to count four 345 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:47,800 Speaker 1: team guilty. That's account of fifteam not guilty. Saturday, what 346 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:52,760 Speaker 1: I remember is that Phillips Brown h just collapsed. We 347 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:54,879 Speaker 1: all knew the first count was murdered. So when I 348 00:23:54,920 --> 00:24:00,520 Speaker 1: read the guilty, uh, Phillips fell out and U so 349 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:05,119 Speaker 1: it's hard to getting through the rest of indictments. Sydney 350 00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:11,280 Speaker 1: Dorsey had no physical response to the verdict. You saw nothing, 351 00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:14,560 Speaker 1: no change in his demeanor at all. He was very stoic. 352 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:17,919 Speaker 1: He had no reaction, never said a word. During the 353 00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:21,680 Speaker 1: Senate scene, he put his hands up and he said, 354 00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:28,080 Speaker 1: your honor, I know you're gonna sentence me severely, but 355 00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:31,440 Speaker 1: I do not have the blood of during Brown on 356 00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:39,640 Speaker 1: my hands. Sydney Dorsey has enough activity in the gray 357 00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:41,919 Speaker 1: that it may not be in his best interest to 358 00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:46,040 Speaker 1: tell everything he knows, because it might make him look 359 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:49,000 Speaker 1: worse than he does. You have to think, if I'm 360 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:53,280 Speaker 1: in in prison for the murder of my rival, what 361 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:56,720 Speaker 1: could look worse than that? So you know, I tend 362 00:24:56,760 --> 00:25:06,280 Speaker 1: to think that Sydney Dorsey ought to talk. Rumblings and 363 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:09,439 Speaker 1: the innocence of way Williams continued from Lewis Graham and 364 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:12,639 Speaker 1: Sydney Dorsey even after Dorsey had been convicted of the 365 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:16,920 Speaker 1: murderer of Brown and made two thousand five, Graham announced 366 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:19,960 Speaker 1: he was reopening the cases around the Atlanta child murders. 367 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:23,280 Speaker 1: Dorsey told Bill Torpy at the Atlanta Journal Constitution that 368 00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:27,480 Speaker 1: month that quote way Williams was the perfect suspect, the 369 00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:30,880 Speaker 1: perfect fall guy. If they arrested a white guy, there 370 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:36,000 Speaker 1: would have been riots across the US. When Dorsey heard 371 00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:38,480 Speaker 1: the news from his old friend Graham, he was confident 372 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:42,679 Speaker 1: that he must have had something. Graham continued to press on, 373 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:48,200 Speaker 1: my responsibility as chief of police in the Camp County 374 00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:51,480 Speaker 1: is to look at all cases, and it was my 375 00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:55,520 Speaker 1: decisions who look at these UH five cases, along with 376 00:25:56,600 --> 00:26:01,160 Speaker 1: other unsolved cases. We are simply open in these cases 377 00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:05,800 Speaker 1: and we are simply going to follow uh The evidence 378 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:09,760 Speaker 1: for it leaves is. You have been quoted as saying 379 00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:12,879 Speaker 1: I have never believed that he did anything. Is that 380 00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:15,639 Speaker 1: a correct quote? That is a very very correct quote. 381 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:20,960 Speaker 1: That's great. The day the paper had the headline that 382 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:24,679 Speaker 1: Lewis Graham was reopening that case, there was another major 383 00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:27,840 Speaker 1: political controversy that was coming out the same day. The 384 00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:30,400 Speaker 1: gb I had been conducting an investigation of a very 385 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:34,400 Speaker 1: powerful local political leader and the results of that investigation 386 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:37,920 Speaker 1: was going to be embarrassing to that leader. And Louis 387 00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:41,679 Speaker 1: Graham worked for that leader. And it's my opinion that 388 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:45,679 Speaker 1: those two people conspired to figure out a bigger story 389 00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:49,200 Speaker 1: to break on the day that the embarrassing story was 390 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:52,359 Speaker 1: going to come out to that other figure. And that's 391 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:55,720 Speaker 1: exactly what happened. Missing Murder Children front page of the 392 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:59,800 Speaker 1: j C, the embarrassing story to the political leader buried 393 00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:02,680 Speaker 1: in the metro section. Did the case of the Atlanta 394 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:06,360 Speaker 1: child murders get reopened due to a competing political scandal 395 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:11,200 Speaker 1: or was this conspiracy theory? Dorsey himself did not confess 396 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:14,200 Speaker 1: to the murder of Jerwan Brown until years later. He 397 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:18,040 Speaker 1: told District Attorney Gwen Keys Fleming on July thirte two 398 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:21,359 Speaker 1: thousand seven, that he did indeed order the hit on Brown. 399 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:25,720 Speaker 1: The Associated Press reported that Dorsey told Fleming that after 400 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:29,280 Speaker 1: losing the election in two thousand he was angry and 401 00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:32,040 Speaker 1: that he was also having problems with his marriage. After 402 00:27:32,119 --> 00:27:37,040 Speaker 1: cheating allegations surfaced, he gave Patrick Cuffey the order to 403 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:39,679 Speaker 1: put out the hit, but later cool on this thinking. 404 00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:43,320 Speaker 1: Lewis Graham resigned in May of two thousand six after 405 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:47,760 Speaker 1: internal police recordings of profanity laced conversations between Graham and 406 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:51,760 Speaker 1: his assistant became public. Despite the drama and excitement that 407 00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:55,600 Speaker 1: initially surrounded the reopening of the investigation of Atlanta child 408 00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:59,320 Speaker 1: murder victims from decap County. The investigation was eventually shuttered 409 00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:08,720 Speaker 1: one Grammar signed. Recently, we heard from Sydney Dorsey again. 410 00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:12,280 Speaker 1: While we continued to ask him more questions about the 411 00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:15,560 Speaker 1: Atlanta child murders, Dorsey was still light on details in 412 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:24,640 Speaker 1: his follow up letter sent from prison. I will read 413 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:28,160 Speaker 1: our questions and Meredith, our producer, will read the responses 414 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:36,959 Speaker 1: from Sydney Dorsey's letter. Dear miss Steadman, I received your 415 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:42,400 Speaker 1: letter dated January and I must honestly tell you that 416 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:46,640 Speaker 1: I remain challenged to seek the truth although locked up 417 00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:49,960 Speaker 1: behind these prison walls. I want justice for our poor 418 00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:54,280 Speaker 1: kids and their families. Unfortunately, time and memory is a 419 00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:57,680 Speaker 1: factor and its weight must be considered as I address 420 00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:01,320 Speaker 1: each of your questions. They're for Please bear with me 421 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:05,680 Speaker 1: for a moment as we reopen a cold case. I 422 00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:07,800 Speaker 1: heard that you fought to keep the Clifford Jones case 423 00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:10,440 Speaker 1: in the trial as one of the victims. Is this true? 424 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:14,920 Speaker 1: If so, could you shed light on your reasoning. I 425 00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:18,000 Speaker 1: remember the name Clifford Jones, but I do not remember 426 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:20,680 Speaker 1: any of the details regarding his case. Please write me 427 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:23,360 Speaker 1: back with more details, then, perhaps that will help me 428 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:27,800 Speaker 1: to remember. Was there another name besides Wayne Williams that 429 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:33,320 Speaker 1: came up repeatedly in the investigation? I do not recall 430 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:38,360 Speaker 1: any name or names that came up repeatedly during our investigation. However, 431 00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:41,280 Speaker 1: I advise you to contact the former team leaders and 432 00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:44,920 Speaker 1: get their input. Did it never seem to you that 433 00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:51,440 Speaker 1: someone or some group was not looked into enough? Four 434 00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:56,480 Speaker 1: brothers reportedly members of the KKK. We're not thoroughly investigated, 435 00:29:56,640 --> 00:30:00,760 Speaker 1: in my opinion, and if they were, I have information. 436 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:04,640 Speaker 1: Who would you talk to if you were us hopefully 437 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:10,240 Speaker 1: to close the door on this tragedy. I honestly do 438 00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:13,640 Speaker 1: not know anyone in or out of law enforcement that 439 00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:17,160 Speaker 1: can help you close the door on this tragedy. Perhaps 440 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:20,840 Speaker 1: you should consider contacting Welcome Harris, a former team leader 441 00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:25,560 Speaker 1: who headed a team of investigators roseland Richardson whose team 442 00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:29,000 Speaker 1: handled all of the incoming tips, and a GPI agent 443 00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:32,240 Speaker 1: who also led a team of investigators. I was also 444 00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:36,720 Speaker 1: a team leader in charge of all crime scene investigation. Finally, 445 00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:39,760 Speaker 1: Morris Reading was the chief of police and in charge 446 00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:44,880 Speaker 1: of the homicide Task Force. Did you ever personally speak 447 00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:48,280 Speaker 1: to Wayne Williams? If so, when was the last time. 448 00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:53,200 Speaker 1: I have never seen in person, nor have I spoken 449 00:30:53,200 --> 00:31:00,240 Speaker 1: with Wayne Williams at any time. Welcome Harris, former ajor 450 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:03,280 Speaker 1: with the Atlanta Police Department, died in two thousand and sixteen. 451 00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:08,520 Speaker 1: We will reach out to both Richardson and Reading, though 452 00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:11,080 Speaker 1: neither has made any public comments on the innocence of 453 00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:16,320 Speaker 1: Williams since his conviction in Reading was Atlanta Deputy police 454 00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:18,440 Speaker 1: chief at the time and a key figure on the 455 00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:21,440 Speaker 1: task force. When the guilty verdict was handed down to 456 00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:25,240 Speaker 1: Way Williams, District Attorney Lewis Layton offered thanks to Reading 457 00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:32,120 Speaker 1: and others for their work on the case. Despite our 458 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:35,680 Speaker 1: multiple efforts to uncover more information from Dorsey, what we 459 00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:42,600 Speaker 1: received was vague and full of dead ends. I think 460 00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:46,640 Speaker 1: the man that craved the limelight twenty years ago does 461 00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:54,440 Speaker 1: not exist anymore. Intimidation, corruption, murder. Sydney Dorsey has been 462 00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:57,680 Speaker 1: attached to all of these things over as many years 463 00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:01,560 Speaker 1: as an officer of the law. As we all know now, 464 00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:04,520 Speaker 1: Mr Dorsey was involved in the killing of a lot 465 00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:08,320 Speaker 1: of people. He was not indicted in an altercation he 466 00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:11,600 Speaker 1: had at a gas station. The teenager at a gas 467 00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:16,520 Speaker 1: station over allegedly spilling gas on Mr. Dorsey's vehicle and 468 00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:21,960 Speaker 1: the man winds up getting shot to death. And this 469 00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:26,880 Speaker 1: is during the Missing and Murdered Children's case. In a 470 00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:30,000 Speaker 1: strange twist of fate, Dorsey's son was murdered earlier this 471 00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:33,320 Speaker 1: year in a shootout. Well, the son of a former 472 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:36,880 Speaker 1: Decab County sheriff who is now imprisoned for the assassination 473 00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:40,680 Speaker 1: of his rival, has been murdered. Clayton County Police found 474 00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:43,840 Speaker 1: the body of Sydney Dorsey, Jr. On north Ridge Trail 475 00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:47,480 Speaker 1: in Ellenwood January nine. He was faced down in the 476 00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:51,040 Speaker 1: middle of the road, shot several times. Right now, police 477 00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:54,560 Speaker 1: do not have any witnesses or suspects. Dorsey's father is 478 00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:57,440 Speaker 1: currently serving life in prison for arranging the murder of 479 00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:18,920 Speaker 1: Derwin Brown after Brown meeting him. Thank you for joining 480 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:22,520 Speaker 1: us for another episode of Atlanta Monster. Stay tuned for 481 00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:34,840 Speaker 1: more news about upcoming episodes and new seasons. 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