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The Fall Line: True Crime

The Grady Babies Kidnappings, Part 4

The Fall Line: True Crime

The Fall Line® Podcast, LLC

True Crime, News

4.64.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

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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