The Grady Babies Kidnappings, Part 4
The Fall Line: True Crime
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4.6 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2018
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Episode four details kidnappings that took place in 1989 and 1993; one of the infants is still missing today. Bibliography for this episode available on website. For more information, support, and resources for persons affected by mental illness, visit https://www.nami.org.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Fall Line. |
| 0:17.7 | Atlanta, 1989. |
| 0:29.6 | Ground is broken on the Georgia Dome, which will one day be the home of the Falcons. |
| 0:34.6 | The movie driving Miss Daisy, which was shot in our city, premieres in theaters. |
| 0:40.0 | Down south in Savannah, a man named Jim Wells is acquitted of the murder of a male sex worker. |
| 0:46.1 | You might remember him from midnight in the Garden of Gooden Evil. |
| 0:50.4 | A manual hammin is formally charged with the murder of Julie Love, a midtown Atlanta resident |
| 0:55.8 | who ran out of gas on her way back from a business meeting. |
| 1:00.0 | And at Grady Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, Jankwia Brooks is born. |
| 1:05.2 | Within two weeks she'll be re-emitted with meningitis. |
| 1:09.0 | As of her age, she's hospitalized in the nursery. |
| 1:12.6 | And within two days, she disappears. |
| 1:17.1 | And then, Atlanta, 1993. |
| 1:22.2 | The Atlanta Braves can't be stopped. |
| 1:25.6 | Construction has begun on the Centennial Olympic Stadium and Georgia's cleanup and gentrification |
| 1:30.6 | efforts are in high gear. |
| 1:33.4 | March brings what's called the storm of the century. |
| 1:36.6 | It's hit with nearly two feet of snow and among the six-foot drifts Atlanta grinds to |
| 1:41.8 | a halt. |
| 1:43.2 | There are only a handful of snow plowls to serve the entire city. |
| 1:48.2 | Something else happens in March 2. |
| 1:51.1 | Tavish Sutton, born in February, is checked into Grady's use-balling children's hospital |
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