Preview: The Atlanta Lover's Lane Murders

The Fall Line: True Crime

The Fall Line® Podcast, LLC

True Crime, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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On September 8th, The Fall Line begins a 3-part miniseries on an unsolved string of cold cases known as the Atlanta Lover's Lane Murders. In 1977--before the Atlanta Child Murders would grip the city--an unknown gunman stalked Atlanta's parks, looking for couples who'd sought the privacy of unofficial 'lover's lanes.' Between January and March, he killed three people and critically wounded three more. As the Atlanta Police Department worked to identify him without alerting him to their stakeout plans, local press were at first unaware of the story--and then told to suppress it. Listen on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	January, 1977, David Berkowitz roamed the streets of New York City, known then as the
0:09.9	44-calibre killer.
0:12.0	Movie goers flocked to theaters to watch the town that dreaded sundown, introducing a
0:17.0	new generation to the unsolved Tex-Arcana moonlight murders.
0:22.5	And down in Atlanta, Georgia, a killer was stalking the city's lover's lanes.
0:27.9	This September, the fall line covers a forgotten and unsolved series of cold cases, the Atlanta
0:35.2	lovers lane murders.
0:37.5	In 1977, just years before the Atlanta child murders gripped the nation, there was another
0:43.6	killer prowling the city.
0:45.4	A gunman targeting couples nestled away in public parks and attacking in a pattern.
0:52.2	The police had a theory that the killer struck every 28 days or every fifth weekend, and
0:58.1	that raised issues about being tied to somebody's menstrual cycle.
1:02.2	And they believed they said the killer would strike in one of these two locations on that
1:09.0	time cycle.
1:10.3	For three months, he struck, seeking out young men and women at their most vulnerable and
1:16.0	firing into their cars.
1:18.7	The APD staged full-scale stakeouts of city parks across southwest Atlanta.
1:24.6	This was a big operation.
1:27.0	Two parks, same nights, two individuals in two cars, male and female officers acting
1:34.4	as bait.
1:35.5	The cars were fitted with bulletproof steel plates in the door panels.
1:40.7	There was plexiglass installed inside.
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