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The Atlanta Child Murders known locally as the missing and murdered children case were a series of murders committed in Atlanta Georgia United States from the summer of 1979 until the spring of 1981. Over the two-year period a minimum of 28 African-American children adolescents and adults were killed. Atlanta native Wayne Williams also African-American and 23 years old at the time of the last murder was arrested for and convicted of two of the adult murders.