WEBVTT - Manhunt [2] 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:04.920 What we have is raw news footage from WSBTV. We 0:00:05.040 --> 0:00:08.760 have seventeen thousand hours of raw news footage. So far, 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:12.680 I've identified six hundred and fourteen clips, but we have 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:15.560 about another one hundred and fifty taps to scrub through. 0:00:16.280 --> 0:00:18.280 The Whole time I've been working on this collection, I've 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:20.919 been thinking someone somedays, someone is going to come along 0:00:20.960 --> 0:00:24.000 and do this. It was you, guys. 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:29.080 Step aboard our tartists bigger on the inside than it 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:35.199 is on the outside where we're going down to the 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:37.520 sub basement high density storage vaults. 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:39.680 It's like a rollercoaster. 0:00:40.360 --> 0:00:43.120 Yes, I can make it go fast if you left. 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:50.599 It's a thirty thousand square foot facility which we keep 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:54.520 at fifty degrees fahrenheit with a relative amidity of thirty percent. 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:57.560 Thirty two feet from floor to the ceiling. Actually the 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:00.040 top of our ceiling there is the floor of the 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:05.800 second floor. Prior to us building this building here was 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:10.040 a Native American settlement of some sort here. If I've 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:14.679 understand what people have told me over the years, everything 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:17.160 is shelved down here by size and then by dark. 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:20.039 How many records do you think you guys have on 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:26.119 the Atlanta Chalmers in Atlanta. Another bonder wasn't discovered through day, 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:27.120 but twenty third. 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:30.520 At Police Task Force headquarters, there are twenty seven faces 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:33.000 on the wall, twenty six murdered, one missing. 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:35.920 We do not know the person or persons that are responsible. Therefore, 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:38.600 we do not have the money from tenderfoot TV in 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:40.320 house to works in Atlanta. 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:43.480 Like eleven other recent victrums in Atlanta, rogers are currently 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:44.319 was as fixiator. 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:48.200 Atlanta is unlikely to catch the killer unless he keeps 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:48.919 on killing. 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:51.600 This is Atlanta monster. 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:01.760 Sketching back then wasn't what it is today. I mean, 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:04.840 some of these sketches they come out with better than photographs. 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:08.400 Back then, you know, you work with what you had, 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:11.680 and it was a pretty good sketch. We had a 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:14.400 composite of it of who this guy would be. 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:16.840 What it looked like to you. Remember well, it was 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:18.440 a blackmail with bushy hair. 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:23.080 I remember the composite sketch very well. This is a 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:27.040 folder of paperwork I kept from my time as deministrative 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:31.799 coordinated the Atlanta child murder cases. It wasn't animosity between 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:35.600 the local police and the FBI. One of the main 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:38.320 things is the mayor maina Jackson. He says, I want 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:42.720 every living FBI agent. My police department is basically incompetent 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:44.480 and they can't solve it. We need the FBI to 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:47.280 solve it. So he threw his department under the bus. 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:49.880 None of us want to get involved because it looked 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:53.280 like just a local miss. 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:57.160 This is Jim Procopio, but he goes by Popcorn. Look, 0:02:57.240 --> 0:02:59.799 he worked for the FBI alongside Mike mccomis during the 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:02.440 time with the Atlanta child murders. Mike actually introduced me 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:02.760 to him. 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:06.440 Probably be interested in talking to Procopio. Yeah, Popcorn is 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:08.440 a good guy. Now if you can get into his 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:10.600 treasure trove, he's got boxes and stuff. 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:13.959 Popcorn dealt with all the records and files in the FBI, 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:16.880 And just like Mike McComas, he stressed the importance of 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:19.880 a composite sketch they received early on in their investigation 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:22.160 from a kid who told police that a man had 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:23.079 tried to abduct him. 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:25.880 Well, it was a blackmail with bushy hair. I remember 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:27.400 the composite sketch very well. 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:30.080 After interviewing the kid, they were able to form a 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:33.800 detailed sketch of the suspect. A blackmail with bushy hair. 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:36.720 After only a few minutes with popcorn, you get the 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:39.000 impression that this guy doesn't forget a thing. 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:44.800 And it goes back to another cultural socioeconomic issue. When 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:49.080 Maynard Jackson became mayor, first black mayor in Atlanta, the 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:51.320 first thing he said was, I want to make the 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:55.320 police department more brown. Police department up with that time 0:03:55.400 --> 0:04:00.200 had some black officers, several were majors and above, but 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:03.160 it was mainly a white police department. Well, when the 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:06.119 white officers heard that, they saw they saw the handwriting 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:08.440 on the wall. If you were white, you're not going 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:11.360 to rise rapidly in this department. It's going to be black. 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:14.120 A lot of the older ones, they say, we'll see you, 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:18.200 they retire. So consequently they lost many of their senior officers, 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:21.360 the best homicide investigator. Then they had a big cheating 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:24.760 scandal in the police department. They found out that a 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:26.840 lot of the black recruits in the police academy were 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:29.359 given the answers to tests. So that was another major scandal. 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:32.839 So the police department was left in seventy eight seventy 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:37.760 nine eighty relatively new and inexperienced. So I guess some 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:41.280 of the homicide detectives were not that experienced and they 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:45.479 missed the signs that there were commonalities in the eight 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:47.400 to ten to twelve they had. By time the Bureau 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:50.960 got in, they were up to fourteen ten found for missing. Further, 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:53.520 the FBI does not investigate murders. Murder is not a 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:56.760 federal crime. If it's committed on a government reservation, it 0:04:56.920 --> 0:05:00.360 is off as certain federal authority as it is is 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:03.080 killed in the commission of a civil rights violation, it is, 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:07.000 but we don't investigate. Doesn't even investigate murders like you 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:08.120 have on the street every day. 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:09.560 So we had no jurisdiction. 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:11.800 We went to the Atlanta Police Department and says here, 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:14.719 we're here to help you. You know, we're greeted by yeah, right, 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:17.880 we won all your files. So it went to roller cases. 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:20.880 We assigned. There were two agents who are one agent 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:23.720 per victim, and we had fourteen of the victims at 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:25.920 the time. So we said go out. 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:28.720 And redo the case, look through it, give it a. 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:32.400 Fresh look, come back and tell us what you're fine about. 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:34.560 Ten or twelve of them come back and said, he's 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:38.560 looked like local crimes. We were pretty much convinced that 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:42.160 they were all local homicides that the APD had bungled. 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:44.960 We didn't see any pattern. We didn't see anything. 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:48.479 The FBI, along with local police, were not convinced they 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:50.920 were dealing with a serial killer, but as the death 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:53.520 toll of black children was growing, they began to recognize 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:55.920 similarities in the murders. It would start with the child 0:05:55.960 --> 0:06:00.040 going missing for days, weeks, and sometimes even months. The 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:03.679 FBI became involved in many of the searches. Popcorn recalled 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:05.240 the first big search he was a part of. 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:10.520 There were one thousand searches all over the city. One 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:14.320 place was red Wine Road in South Fulton County. If 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:16.599 you go there today, it's right off two eighty five. 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:19.720 There's a huge shopping center with a Tarja and old 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:23.799 bunch of stores. Back then it was woods. About three o'clock, 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:26.240 the team down on red Wine Road says we found 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:30.279 skeletal remains. So everybody hauled ask and it was like 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:33.120 being in Vietnam again. There were the news choppers overhead. 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:34.320 They got window. 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:34.520 Where we were. 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:36.920 All the news choppers were overhead. So I got there 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:40.600 there about five o'clock and I'm walking and I'd park 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:42.760 my car on red Wine Road and I walk in 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:45.360 the woods and something catches my eye at eleven o'clock 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:48.200 and I walk over and there was a skull and. 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:49.159 More human remains. 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:51.600 So we had two human remains within one hundred feet 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:56.840 at one another, and this led to. 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:59.400 One of the most bizarre episodes. 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:04.400 About one hundred feet below both bodies, we found a 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:10.400 Playboy magazine. It was that week's Playboy magazine. It came 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:12.160 out that Wednesday. 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:13.000 This was Friday. 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:15.560 So we found the Playboy magazine and there was a 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:18.400 sticky substance between the pages. I'll let you decide what 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:22.679 that was. So he immediately fantasized the investigators. The killer 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:27.800 came back, came down here to the side of the murders, masturbated, 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:28.440 then took off. 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:29.960 This is key evidence. 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:34.320 We packaged it up, raced it out to the airport, 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:37.600 gave it to the captain of a Delta jet heading 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:38.520 for Washington, DC. 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:40.200 An agent picked it up as. 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:42.800 Soon as the plane landed, rushed with the FBI laboratory. 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:46.280 They gave it to a ladder lab. They developed prints 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:50.120 and identified the sticky substance. We didn't have any of 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:52.480 the prints on file, so they sent it to the 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:54.960 APD to look up through their files. Within an hour 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:56.200 they identified the print. 0:07:57.720 --> 0:07:59.920 So we went in. We arrested the guy, We searched us. 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:02.880 He brought him to the Bureau. We polygraphed him. He 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:06.040 passed the PolyGram. What the hell were you doing down there? 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:09.040 He says, well, my wife just had a baby. I 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:12.040 went down there that afternoon. Now, during that time we 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:14.920 were part of the Vice President of George Bush's task 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:19.240 for us. Everything I wrote went to a UNI chief 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:22.240 of the Bureau, went to the director, to the Attorney General, 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:24.920 to George Bush. George Bush read it. So the one 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:28.440 thing he asked us was please don't tell my wife. 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:30.080 We said, you goddamn idiot. 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:32.440 Do you know the Vice President of the United States 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:34.520 knows what you did when you went into the woods, 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:36.360 and you know where your wife's going to find out. 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:42.160 By the way, we code named that. It was known 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:43.239 as the Woodwhacker. 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:48.160 Popcorn's first big lead went nowhere. Popcorn had found the 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:51.240 bodies of eleven year old Christopher Richardson and eleven year 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:54.880 old Earl Terrell. Christopher had been missing for eight months, 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:57.440 an Earl had been missing for six months. To me, 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:00.480 on the surface, these cases seemed open and shut. A 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:03.160 Playboy magazine with semen on It was found near the 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:06.160 bodies with the suspect's fingerprints on it. But after an 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:10.280 extensive interrogation, the suspect passed a polygraph test, and despite 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:13.600 all the bizarre circumstances, the FBI was convinced that this 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:16.080 man was not involved in the murders, so they moved on. 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:19.480 Both Popcorn and Mike Macombis told me that when the 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:22.000 FBI got involved in these cases, there was an extreme 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:23.800 tension brewing in the city of Atlanta. 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:26.079 Of course, the blacks wanted it to be somebody white 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:27.920 and the whites wanted it to be somebody black. And 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:29.920 I can't speak for the rest of the bureau, but 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:32.200 my partner and I are Larry Ellington. We talked about 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:36.920 it a lot. First off, our profilers said that serial 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:40.760 killers rarely cross races. They'll kill in their own race, 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:42.760 and all these kids were black. 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:47.080 Popcorn and Macomis both mentioned FBI profilers the people who 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:49.560 formulate an idea of who the killer is, who the 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:52.439 FBI should be looking for, and there was one characteristic 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:53.800 that stood out to me immediately. 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:55.960 It had to be a black guy. 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:59.520 A white man could not go into a black neighborhood, 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:00.720 pick up a ca we had put them in his 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:02.920 car and drive off without anybody seeing. 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:06.400 If there's a crime scene. Then the media was just unbelievable. 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:09.360 And with all of the attention this case was getting, 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:13.760 it was almost impossible to get into a predominantly black 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:19.160 neighborhood and not be challenged or approached or whatever. If 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:19.680 you were white. 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:22.280 It just doesn't happen. In fact, when we went into 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:25.520 black neighborhoods during the investigation, everybody on a street was 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:27.400 out on their front porch as soon as we appeared 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:28.079 in the neighborhood. 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:31.679 There was one place that I think is gone now. 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:33.240 It was a housing project. They had what they call 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:36.520 the bat patrol, and these were adults that walked around 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:40.880 with baseball bats and looking for suspicious characters or protecting 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:44.120 the community whatever they call them. The bat patrol. We 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:47.400 were over in this housing area. We had two young 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:53.240 black kids that had supposedly seen something we thought, so 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:55.200 Larry and I were tasked to go over and pick 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:57.680 up these two children and their mother. So here we 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:00.839 are in the Brown Ford again. He's driving, I'm in 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:04.000 the passenger side, and we have the mother sitting in 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:05.960 the middle and the two black kids in the back 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:07.720 seat and near the windows, and two young boys, and 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:10.480 I think they were like ten or something, eight, ten, twelve, 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:12.480 I don't know, somewhere around that. And we didn't get 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:15.000 two blocks before we were boxed in by about four 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:18.480 three or four different police cars. And we weren't proned 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:20.600 out that it was coming to that before we finally 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:23.520 got them to look at our identification. Hey, we're FBI agents. 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:26.079 And because somebody had called in, there's two white guys 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:29.120 with some black kids in the car. So it was 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:31.080 tough getting in and out of certain areas, and so 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:33.320 we were kind of convinced this guy had to be black. 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:35.600 He had to be black. We just couldn't figure out 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:37.280 how he was getting them in a car. 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:41.160 Was this a skewed opinion coming from only white males. 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:43.760 Was it that impossible for a white person to walk 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:46.000 around the inner city of Atlanta in the early eighties, 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:49.679 I don't know. I asked Eric and Jasper Cameron, they 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:52.040 grew up in Atlanta during that time, if anything they 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:53.320 would know person. 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:55.280 I felt like it had to be somebody that could 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:59.480 move around in the community. So therefore I felt like 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:03.440 to be somebody black or somebody who wouldn't draw suspicion 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:07.240 because you know, over there we live a white person 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:10.080 walking around over there, they are gonna be you know, 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:13.600 it's gonna draw attention because that wasn't happening then. Now 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:15.439 now you go over there, it's like. 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:16.280 You know everybody. 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:20.319 But back then, nah, you know, it would have drew 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:22.959 too much attention. So I always felt like, probably with 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:26.599 somebody who could move around pretty easy, you know, undetected, 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:28.640 without really causing a lot of suspicion. 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:32.840 But not everyone agreed on that. This is Bernard Parks. 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:35.240 He grew up in Atlanta too, and was also a 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:36.720 child at the time of the murders. 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:39.560 There are certain guys that you know that they were around. 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:42.400 I mean, you know, it's like it wasn't a lot 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:44.080 of white guys, right, but but. 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:44.440 There were some. 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:46.920 Yeah, I mean, like you grew up, you know what 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:48.280 I'm saying. It's like, you know, one or two white 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:50.240 guys that went to my school, right, But that's just 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:52.640 because their family didn't have no money, right, So they 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:55.080 were just around and so you kind of accepted them. 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:57.120 But you know, I always say, you know, they got cousins, 0:12:57.120 --> 0:12:58.920 they got friends, they got people that hung around and 0:12:58.960 --> 0:12:59.480 we accepted. 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:00.000 It wouldn't have. 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:04.240 Normal, though, for in that time, for a black guy 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:06.640 just to walk up and be accepting of a white 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:11.840 guy without somebody understanding what's happening, right, I mean, that 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:14.760 just wasn't normal. I mean you just questioned, period, because 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:17.319 you're in my community and it's ain't your community. 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:20.400 I asked Monica Pearson, the former news anchor in Atlanta. 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:22.439 Her memory was crystal clear. 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:27.840 They weren't looking for a murderer. They were profiling. They 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:32.040 decided that that's what it was. And you have to 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:37.200 keep all options open. I think anytime you don't open 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:42.720 up and cast a wide net, you lose the opportunity 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:48.080 of finding someone else who might be involved. It's as 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:52.160 simple as that. You have to look at all the possibilities. 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:55.200 And if you start out by saying it has to 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:57.240 be a black person who did it, because these were 0:13:57.240 --> 0:14:01.560 black children, then that's the reason why so many people 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:04.720 in the black community thought it was the Klan. I 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:08.199 think that's short sighted on their part, because you could 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:15.160 easily have a white man in that community dressed as 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:20.800 black people dressed and no one would notice him because 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:25.520 he just looks like a black person. He's in this community. 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:26.200 Now. 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:29.800 Most white people would not go into that community because 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:33.320 they would stand out like a sore thumb. But if 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:40.920 you assimilate from the walk, to the clothing, to the attitude, 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:45.000 to the speech, and don't say it can't be done, 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:48.040 I'm just throwing it out there. I think that's shortsighted 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:50.840 to say a white person couldn't do it. 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:56.440 A white person could. 0:14:56.360 --> 0:15:01.000 If you know the community you had. A white graduated 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:05.120 a couple of years ago from Morehouse College as a valedictorian. 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:08.800 White folks go into the black community all the time 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:12.600 to buy drugs, and they don't have a problem fitting in. 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:17.000 If you look like the people who live there, and 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:19.880 your skin is just a little lighter than somebody else's, 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:22.040 it's not going to stand out. 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:29.920 I think they're wrong on that. From her perspective, the 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:33.000 possibility of a white killer was ruled out way too quickly. 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:36.200 I couldn't help but think she made a great point. 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:40.200 The one thing I remember most about the missing and 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:45.240 murdered children. I still see that visual every day is 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:49.920 Maynard Jackson sitting there with piles of cash, offering a 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:54.640 reward for any information on who was committing these crimes. 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:59.760 Here's one hundred thousand dollars and it's all you. 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:04.280 Most gangster picture ever him sitting with that money on 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:04.640 the desk. 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:06.640 I think that's where they got this shot from for 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:08.400 uh Ransom. 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:10.480 Remember when Ransom they came in and put the male 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:12.200 gifts and he put all that money on the table 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:14.720 and he was like, now I'm putting his bounty on you. 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:19.560 That was Maina's line. 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:22.800 I read about this over and over in my research. 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:26.200 The reward money. It started with one hundred thousand dollars 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:29.800 from the city, but private donations, including one from Muhammad Ali, 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:32.880 brought it to over five hundred thousand. Today that would 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:35.920 be around one point five million. As Atlanta struggled to 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:38.240 find the killer, the city needed more and more money. 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:40.880 One solution was a benefit concert. 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:45.560 Come Fly with Me, Let's Fine, Let's Fine. 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:50.920 Frank Sinatra will be joining Sammy Davis Junior on stage 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:53.560 at the Atlanta Civic Center. The two figure to draw 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:56.000 a standing room only crowd for the March ten benefit 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:59.920 concert to help the investigation into the crimes against Atlanta's children. 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:04.560 The city held a huge benefit concert to raise money 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:07.879 for the investigation at the Atlanta Civic Center, but the 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:10.240 FBI was a high alert for the killer. 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:14.239 I was convinced that that night he would respond to that, 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:17.960 and I was convinced in my mind that he would 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:20.160 drop a body in the fountain right there. 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:22.920 Frank Sinatra arrived here at Charlie Brown Airport just a 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:24.480 few minutes before six o'clock. 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:25.120 He's not on his. 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:28.040 Way to the Atlanta Civic centerwhere he'll join Sammy Davis 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:29.760 Junior for tonight's benefit concert. 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:33.200 Sammy Davis Junior picked up a phone and volunteered. 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:35.680 To help Atlanta today. The superstar arrived here on his 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:36.480 private jet. 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:41.320 Such a horrendous tragedy as this effects, as I said, 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:43.520 it certainly affects all of America. 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:48.399 I was there that night, and we had cops and helicopters. 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:50.920 There were cars everywhere police because there is no one 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:52.159 could have gotten there with the body. 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:55.639 It started with police dogs sniffing the entire Civic Center 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:58.800 looking for explosives. The Mayor's office called this routine. 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:01.520 Will you guys are here to catch somebody? 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:02.560 Oh? 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:03.760 Hell yeah, that's why we're roll out. 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:06.800 Officials have been preparing for weeks for this night. Extra 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:09.680 security guards have been hired and extra police officers have 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:12.480 been put on patrol here with just one objective to 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:13.840 keep an eye on children. 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:18.320 It was overwhelming. The Atlanta Police Department out in full force. 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:20.879 Who had a GBI? I know, the FBI was there, 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:23.760 the Task Force, everybody was there. There's no way anyone 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:25.320 could have gotten in there and done anything. 0:18:25.480 --> 0:18:27.520 There are so many news people here, coming from all 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:30.600 over the world, Chicago, New York, Hamburg, London, so many 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:33.400 they had to be regulated to a room in the basement. Meanwhile, 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:42.360 upstairs Atlanta's finance It started to arrive, but the high 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:45.800 points of the show weren't outside. They were in here. 0:18:48.960 --> 0:18:50.800 I've got the world of the. 0:18:57.480 --> 0:19:00.840 I've got this didn't respond and to got a lot 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:03.000 of publicity. I thought he was response to how he didn't. 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:09.680 And while Sinatra was entertaining as he sang, he was 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:11.680 most touching when he spoke. 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:14.720 More of my tears are shed for the brothers and 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:18.040 sisters and playmates of the victims to whom terror has 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:23.160 become an unwelcome companion, and to all of the fine, 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:26.879 decent people in Atlanta who are frightened by day and 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:28.200 doubly frightened by night. 0:19:29.560 --> 0:19:30.880 You have my prayers that. 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:37.280 Is, and that it should pass without further bloodshed. 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:44.280 The city as a whole was banding together to catch 0:19:44.320 --> 0:19:47.879 this killer, and every single law enforcement agency was working 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:51.400 around the clock. All the murders were of black children 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:54.400 from the inner city of Atlanta, and they were disappearing 0:19:54.400 --> 0:19:58.520 from their own neighborhoods in their own local hangouts. One 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:00.520 popular place in the city at that time time for 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:03.840 kids to hang out was called the Omni, an arcade 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:07.440 room with food in a movie theater. But the Omni 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:10.800 was also becoming a place where some kids were last seen. 0:20:18.840 --> 0:20:20.359 That's what we did. It was a game room in 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:23.680 the Omni, and we literally would go to that game 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:26.399 room and go to the arcades and all that. So 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:29.600 that's like video games and stuff like that. That's what 0:20:29.640 --> 0:20:32.160 we did. Went to the Omni, hung Omni. 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:40.040 Friday night, date night, get out of the house night, 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:41.760 and the Omnie is packed with youngsters. 0:20:42.240 --> 0:20:46.119 The Omni Complex, a mixture of fine stores, sporting events, movies, 0:20:46.119 --> 0:20:49.120 and game rooms, a popular place for the inner city 0:20:49.200 --> 0:20:52.120 kid to hang out. That's why the Special Task Force 0:20:52.160 --> 0:20:55.840 became interested in the complex as a meeting place. Investigators 0:20:55.880 --> 0:21:01.399 first started looking for some type of connection back in February. 0:21:03.440 --> 0:21:06.840