The Atlanta Lover's Lane Murders: Set a Trap — Part 2

The Fall Line: True Crime

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🗓️ 15 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 second episode in this series covers The Atlanta Constitution reporter's Ken Willis and his dogged pursuit of the story--and push to publish it--and the APD's manhunt for the unknown gunman, which led to stakeouts of Atlanta parks.

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0:00.0	This is part 2 in a three-part series.
0:04.8	Please listen to part 1 before continuing with this episode.
0:08.6	This episode contains discussion of violence, murder, and crime scenes.
0:13.4	Listener discretion is advised.
0:29.6	This is the Fall line.
0:40.9	When we last left off, an unknown killer had struck in Atlanta for three months running,
0:46.3	twice in Adams Park and once in West Manor.
0:49.5	Three couples, LeBrien Love It, Veronica Hill, Deedra Tatum, Dennis Langston, Gordon Whitfield,
0:55.9	and Diane Collins had been attacked by a gunman.
0:59.3	Only three of the young people survived.
1:02.4	All had been shot at close range with a very particular kind of ammunition.
1:07.4	Hornet Day Wadcutter 38-Caliber Bullets designed for target practice.
1:13.0	Lab examiners felt it was likely that the Bullets had been fired from a Colt 38.
1:18.9	The couples were all local to the southwest Atlanta area, all young black men and women,
1:24.5	and had gone parking in the local lover's lanes on Friday or Saturday nights.
1:29.6	But that's where the connections ended.
1:32.4	They didn't know each other.
1:34.2	Deedra and Dennis, they were in high school.
1:37.1	Gordon was in the military.
1:39.0	Diane was finishing cosmetology school.
1:41.8	Veronica and LeBrien, the eldest, each had young children.
1:46.2	The gunmen seemed most interested not in who they were, but what they represented, young
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