ATLANTA (AP) — DeKalb County Police Chief Louis Graham said Tuesday he will reopen a fifth case considered among the more than two dozen included in the quarter-century-old slayings known as the Atlanta Child Murders.
Last week, Graham _ who was an assistant police chief in neighboring Fulton County at the time of the killings _ announced he would look into four of the deaths. On Tuesday, he added to the list Aaron Wyche, 10, whose body was found on June 24, 1980.
Graham said his decision to reopen the cases was driven solely by his belief in the innocence of Wayne Williams _ the man convicted in two of the deaths and suspected in most of the others _ and first arose in December from some old news clippings that jogged his memory that some of the killings occurred in his jurisdiction.
The other deaths that DeKalb County police are looking into are those of 11-year-old Patrick Baltazar, found Feb. 13, 1981; 13-year-old Curtis Walker, found March 6, 1981; 15-year-old Joseph Bell, found April 19, 1981; and 17-year-old William Barrett, found May 12, 1981.
The chief is asking families of the victims to contact police.
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