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“Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children” is a five-part series on HBO that dives into the crime spree that terrorized the African American community and saw 29 children murdered or kidnapped between 1979 to 1981. Through previously unseen heart-wrenching interviews with the victim’s families, law enforcement, journalists and footage of Wayne Williams (who was jailed for the crimes but maintains his innocence to this day), the docuseries sheds a new light on the devastating loss of lives, questions who really committed the crimes and examines the failure of the American justice system.
“We couldn’t leave anyone out,” says lead editor E. Donna Shepherd.
Shepherd worked alongside editors R.A. Fedde and Ed Barteski to weave together the emotional story that puts the victims’ faces front and center in the world. Although that is emotional for the families, the production team shared the docuseries with the families and “talked them through in...
“We couldn’t leave anyone out,” says lead editor E. Donna Shepherd.
Shepherd worked alongside editors R.A. Fedde and Ed Barteski to weave together the emotional story that puts the victims’ faces front and center in the world. Although that is emotional for the families, the production team shared the docuseries with the families and “talked them through in...
- 5/5/2020
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
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