The Atlanta Lover's Lane Murders: Killer Profile — Part 3

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🗓️ 22 September 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

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.

The final episode in this series dissects the two publicly available forensic profiles of the Atlanta Lover's Lane Killer, information of suspects considered by the APD, andd where the case stands today.

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0:00.0	This is the final episode in the three-part series.
0:04.0	It discusses sexual assault, murder, and crime scenes.
0:08.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:10.0	This is the Fall Line.
0:34.0	In the late spring of 1977, Atlanta, Georgia was on watch.
0:39.0	The citizens were finally aware that a killer had been stalking the city's parks.
0:44.0	The Atlanta Lovers Lane murders had made the papers.
0:48.0	Reporter Ken Willis had made sure of that.
0:50.0	And now, the other journalists, they were joining in.
0:54.0	Atlanta's homicide squad was still working on the crimes, which Lieutenant W. K. Perry, who led the division, described as, quote, the biggest case in the city in the past 25 years.
1:06.0	In May, the Atlanta Daily World reported that then-governor of Georgia, George Busby, announced a $3,000 reward for information in the murders of Lovers Lane Victims, Veronica Hill, Librarian Love It, and Diane Collins.
1:22.0	It doesn't sound like much.
1:24.0	It isn't much, even with inflation.
1:27.0	That's about $13,515 today.
1:31.0	But according to the Atlanta Constitution, quote, Georgia law authorizes the governor to offer a reward not to exceed $1,000 for information leading to the arrest or conviction of persons who have committed a murder in the state.
1:47.0	So Governor Busby had done so.
1:51.0	$1,000 for each life.
1:54.0	Veronica, Librarian, Diane.
1:57.0	To our knowledge, there were no more parkstakes out.
2:01.0	Not after the APD set up two in April of 1977, over the weekend that the gunmen should have struck.
2:10.0	They'd set decoy cars in both West Manor and Adams Parks, where the three couples had been attacked.
2:16.0	But the gunmen hadn't shown.
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