The Atlanta Lover’s Lane Murders: The Park Killer - Part 1

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🗓️ 8 September 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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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 first episode of this three-part series explores the setting--Atlanta, 1977--details the three attacks, and examines the only evidence on the gunman: his choice of bullets, and one eyewitness account. Use promo code FUNJET75 for $75 off your next Funjet Vacation at RIU Hotels & Resorts! http://funjet.com/ Join 30 million fans across the globe and awaken your inner detective with June’s Journey! Follow Suspect on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, or you can binge all nine episodes ad-free by subscribing to Wondery Plus in Apple Podcasts or the Wondery app. Written, researched, and hosted by Laurah Norton, with research assistance from Bryan Worters and Kim Fritz/Additional research by Shannon Geary, Haley Gray, and Lexie Newhouse/Interviews by Brooke Hargrove/Produced, scored, and engineered by Maura Currie/Content advisors are Brandy C. Williams, Liv Fallon, and Vic Kennedy/ Theme music by RJR/Special thanks to Angie Dodd Sources at our website: https://www.thefalllinepodcast.com/sources Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thefalllinepodcast 2021 All Rights Reserved The Fall Line Podcast, LLC Want to advertise/sponsor our show? We have partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email [email protected] or click the link below to get started. https://www.advertisecast.com/TheFallLine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is part one in a three-part series. This episode contains discussion of
0:05.5	violence, murder, and crime scenes. Listener discretion is advised.
0:10.0	This is the Fall line.
0:20.0	This is the Fall line.
0:36.0	January 1977, Atlanta. There was a cold snap that month. The kind the South
0:42.5	is never prepared for. So frigid that the rivers and the ponds iced over. And the
0:48.0	wind cut through winter jackets and hurried pedestrians down city sidewalks. It
0:53.5	felt more like the big apple than the city too busy to hate. Fitting because
0:59.3	New York City would soon make national headlines. The police there were
1:04.0	slowly connecting a series of murders to a single killer. In July of 1976, just
1:10.5	six months before, someone had begun to kill young couples, couples sitting in
1:15.6	parked cars. By the end of January of 1977, four couples had been attacked and the
1:22.8	NYPD were on the lookout for a man they were calling the 44 caliber killer. He
1:28.6	wouldn't declare his own preferred moniker, the son of Sam, until the summer of
1:33.5	1977, when his arrest was imminent. The murders of couples at lovers lanes, that
1:40.3	is, the attacks on couples who were parking as the old euphemism goes, covering
1:46.3	anything from kissing to sexual intercourse, would be a near constant theme in the
1:52.1	late 1970s. The nationwide release of the horror movie The Town The Dreaded
1:57.6	Sundown came out on December 24, 1976. It played in theaters across the country,
2:04.8	including Atlanta. The gory over the top film was loosely based on the very
2:11.1	real, very unsolved Tex Arcana Moonlight murders. Just after World War II, a
2:17.9	rural county in Tex Arcana was besieged by an unknown killer. The press called
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