Keisha Lance Bottoms tweeted Monday night that the private laboratory in Salt Lake City was working with ancient DNA evidence.
ATLANTA – Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said investigators are being headed to Utah to provide a laboratory with evidence of the child murders in Atlanta.
Bottoms tweeted Monday night that the private laboratory in Salt Lake City was working on ancient DNA evidence. Atlanta police also confirmed that some of their investigators brought evidence to the lab.
The murders of children in Atlanta rocked the city and created unease among the communities. In 2019, Bottoms announced the city would re-investigate the murders. They are believed to have occurred in a narrow window of time, 1979 to 1981, but in July Bottoms announced that the investigation team would extend the possible period from 1970 to 1985 to include more children or other victims, that may have been overlooked.
From 1979 to 1981, 29 African American children were killed.
“I sincerely hope there are concrete answers for the families,” Bottoms tweeted on Monday.
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@Atlanta_Police Investigators travel to Salt Lake City to provide a private laboratory that works with ancient DNA evidence, evidence from the cases of missing and murdered children. I sincerely hope that there are concrete answers for the families.
– Keisha Lance Bottoms (@KeishaBottoms) October 18, 2021
One man, Wayne Williams, has been named as the man behind the murders, but his guilt is still much debated. Williams was only convicted of the murder of two adult men. He was convicted in 1982 and sentenced to life imprisonment, but has always protested his innocence.
The Atlanta Child Murders are considered the black eye in the city’s history. Many critics look to the past and insist that elements of the crime have never been solved.
APD said more information about the evidence brought to Salt Lake City would be released at a later date.
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