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Child Killer
- The True Story of the Atlanta Child Murders
- Narrateur(s): Kevin Kollins
- Durée: 4 h et 27 min
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Description
From the summer of 1979 through the spring of 1981, Atlanta, Georgia, was held under siege by a serial killer, and dozens of victims started to appear. The series of murders, which became known as the “Atlanta Child Murders case”, gripped the city of Atlanta with fear and shocked the nation because most of the victims were children. The fact that the victims were all Black and mostly male caused many in Atlanta’s Black community to fear their children were being targeted by a racist conspiracy.
In this true-crime audiobook, you will hear about how the Atlanta Child Murders case put a city under siege and how a task force of law-enforcement officers from several different agencies eventually captured the killer. You will follow the investigation as the police use what was at the time fairly new techniques of criminal profiling and fiber evidence to capture and convict the killer. For many around the country, once the killer was arrested, it was difficult to accept. The killer was a young, nerdy-looking man named Wayne Williams. To many people, his background didn’t seem to indicate he was a serial killer, but the professional profilers knew otherwise!
Open the following audiobook and learn the true story of Wayne Williams and the Atlanta Child Murders. You will learn about how Williams evolved from a nerdy kid who loved electronics into what is perhaps the most prolific Black serial killer. You will be horrified by some of the details of this case, but you will not be able to pause this audiobook.
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Au global4 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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Histoire3 out of 5 stars
- Langer MD
- 2021-05-08
An Excellent Matter-Of-Fact Exposé
Jack Rosewood provides a complete - if somewhat superficial - chronicle describing a horrifying series of crimes. He pays some lip service to the terror felt by the black community in Atlanta during those 22 months of hell - but doesn't do a great job putting readers in the moment. Instead, he sticks to a documentary approach. Fortunately, it works. His exploration of the crimes, the killer, and the LEOs is in-depth and leaves nothing out (despite a relatively short forum) while foregoing speculation. It's an edifying approach. It has to be noted that the writing is merely 'competent' - clear and well-organized - but unremarkable. Don't expect "prose". There furthermore isn't a great deal of insight in this book. Instead, Rosewood exhibits a satisfying focus on particulars (while avoiding dramatization).. the author simply presents the facts in a systematic, logical way and invites readers to draw their own conclusions.
Kevin Collins is - at best - an average reader. He does a professional job - reading with an appropriate level of gravitas for the subject matter, injecting enough emotion to keep the listener interested, and exhibiting spot-on pacing - but he is unspectacular. As some readers have commented, he has a noticeable lisp.. but the sound engineers do a nice job keeping it from overwhelming the recording. Another reader could have done a better job I suppose, but Collins is effective.
This relatively short, highly competent True Crime novel is worth 7 stars out of 10. It's worth a Credit for those who want to learn the nuts & bolts of the crimes, the investigation, and the conviction of an unusual Serial Killer without the sensationalism. The book ultimately concludes that Wayne Williams is guilty, but probably not guilty of all 28 murders attributed to the Atlanta Child Killer. I, for one, appreciate the intellectual honesty.
This book is perhaps a little too clinical, but if you're willing to put the effort in, contemplating this most-interesting set of murders will allow you to glean much.
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