This is the fourth episode in our latest season covering missing persons and unsolved homicides across the southeastern United States and part one of a two-part series.

All opinions expressed are the interviewee zone.

This series discusses drug and alcohol use, violence, crime scenes, and homicide.

Listener discretion is advised.

The Homicide. Listener discretion is advised.

This is the fall line.

In 2025, Metro Atlanta is a sprawling network of cities and suburbs that spread out across several counties, spilling out much farther than the tight boundaries of the city proper.

Technically, Atlanta proper is home to about 500,000, but close to 6 million more of us are

crowded around that hub, commuting back and forth and building lives in places like Decatur

and College Park, Tucker,

Roswell and Marietta.

The list goes on, north and south and east and west, every direction coming with its own

story of flight and sprawl and revitalization and communities connected and cut off by public

transportation. Its long story has retold itself plenty of times in different ways.

The New South, Atlanta preparing itself for the Olympics, Hollywood South,

where money settles and who has it,

and how that shapes the landscape that has had one constant.

It's always changing. Atlanta metro just keeps

growing. And what is and is not the city? Not so much technically, but in spirit, that's always up for

debate. There are areas, especially south and southeast, that have always felt like part of

Atlanta, whether or not that was

formerly the case. Maybe people will argue with that. Of course people will. That's another

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