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After killing four members of the Clutter family in Kansas, 34 days before the Walker murders, Smith and Hickock fled to Florida in a stolen car, and were spotted at least a dozen times between Tallahassee and Miami. [5] The pair checked into a Miami Beach motel, about four hours from Osprey, and checked out on the morning of the Walker murders.
Seven of the Walker family were brutally murdered. As was typical of lynchings of black people, no one was prosecuted for this crime. [4] Violence continued in the region, culminating in the kidnapping of two prominent white attorneys and lynching murder of one, Captain Quentin Rankin, a shareholder in the Land Company.
Family murders are: Mass murders (defined by the United States Congress as the killing of three or more victims in a single location around the same time) [1] where the victims are predominantly members of the same family, of more than one generation, or; Triple murders where the victims are parents and one of their children, and
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During the time of the murders, Jones attended Oglethorpe Elementary School and was classmates with two of the real-life victims, Yusuf Bell and Terry Pue. On June 10, 2010, CNN broadcast a documentary, The Atlanta Child Murders, with interviews by Soledad O'Brien with some of the people involved, including Wayne Williams. The two-hour ...
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After his 3-year-old daughter was murdered by her mother's boyfriend, a grieving father was caught on camera attacking the man convicted of killing his little girl.
The governor of Georgia, Allen D. Candler, issued a statement calling the murder of Alfred Cranford "the most diabolical in the annals of crime" and blamed the entire black community of Georgia. [10] Candler complained the younger generation of blacks had not been so "lucky" to have experienced slavery while the older generation of blacks had ...