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Nov 6, 2026
Matt FrederickHOST
Guys, Larry Howard, that name came up in the research.
Matt FrederickHOST
And do we remember that name at all? I have a special connection with it because of Atlanta Monster, but I just want to see.
Noel BrownHOST
Makes sense.
Noel BrownHOST
I knew it rang a bell.
Noel BrownHOST
I remember it from listening to Atlanta Monster.
Matt FrederickHOST
At the time of the Atlanta missing and murdered case, he was the assistant director of the Georgia Crime Lab.
Matt FrederickHOST
At this point, he is the director.
KaylaHOST
I didn't take advantage of the best legal advice and based my actions on irrelevant matters, which I can see now in a much more sober mind has nothing to do with this case.
KaylaHOST
I must have been legally insane thinking about the 25 murders of children in Atlanta since Wayne Williams capture, the recent murder of a man in Boston by police, the two recent murderers of two in Chicago by police, the lynchings in Alabama, the mob murder of a transit worker in Brooklyn, the murders of 14 women in Boston, feeling that this is evidence of something and that there must be a lesson in all this.
KaylaHOST
I thought murder was legal.
NikkiHOST
Ooh, he threw some shade.
KaylaHOST
it.
KaylaHOST
I love that.
KaylaHOST
And I also love that he mentioned the Wayne Williams because that's one case that I've just avoided.
KaylaHOST
Samuel Little, Anthony Sowell, and the Wayne Williams case, I've avoided all of them.
Madam WhipassGUEST
So now, I see a whole bunch of black faces as serial killers.
Madam WhipassGUEST
And there have been a couple, like Wayne Williams.
Madam WhipassGUEST
There was a guy out
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Jeff ColeHOST
But, of course, I think David Koresh was trying to be a musician, too.
Jeff ColeHOST
So was Wayne Williams.
Jeff ColeHOST
Wayne Williams, back in the Atlanta child murder days, he was looking to be like a music manager producer, and he just kind of was too creepy.
Jeff ColeHOST
So you're
Southside SteveHOST
saying music is driving them to it? Do you blame music? No, I don't blame music.
Cole CuchnaHOST
It's here he recalls the terror of the Atlanta child murders that haunted his hometown between 1979 and 1981.
Cole CuchnaHOST
Andre specifically evokes convicted murderer Wayne Williams, who posed as a record producer to lure and kidnap young people.
André 3000SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He said he had a label recruiting people Put that on my grandma and everything My homie said he told him his name was Wayne It could've been me or it could've been you too
Cole CuchnaHOST
In December of 2016, Andre appeared on two tracks from Kid Cudi's album Passion, Pain, and Demon Slain, performing the hook on the track By Design.
Emily RaskHOST
that july in atlanta two black teenagers named edward smith and alfred evans disappeared and they turned out to be the first of nearly 30 young black people most of them boys who were abducted and killed in the city over the next 22 months that fall a nine-year-old named yusuf bell went missing after walking to the store to pick something up for his neighbor His mom, Camille Bell, told reporters he was in a gifted program at school that did karate and he went to a boys club, and 18 days later, he was found dead.
Emily RaskHOST
Camille Bell and the other moms kept telling the police that something was very wrong and in her words the reaction of the police was that we were overreacting and that there was no serial killer so they organized they formed the committee to stop children's murders and kept showing up at city council meetings until the city finally set up a task force almost a year after the first boys disappeared by which point 11 young boys were already on the list Now, national attention didn't arrive until more than a year later when a man named Wayne Williams was eventually convicted.
Emily RaskHOST
It was for two of the adult victims, and some of the families, including Camille Bell, never believed all of their children got answers.
Emily RaskHOST
Now, both of those stories started the same year, and each one was every parent's nightmare.
London MayGUEST
Wow.
London MayGUEST
I don't want to get his name wrong, but I think it was like Wayne Williams.
London MayGUEST
I think you're
Metal Dave GlessnerHOST
right.
Jen SchafferGUEST
You need to get out here.
Jen SchafferGUEST
Police go out to this address in Pasadena, and they find this young man named Elmer Wayne Henley Jr., and he killed this guy named Dean Corll.
Jen SchafferGUEST
From there, he tells them, hey, you know, i'm going to take you somewhere and this man dean coral had multiple bodies buried in a boat shed and so he takes police to the boat shed and sure enough they begin to unearth these boys and all of their names were in missing persons files that were already filed with the houston police department
Ed OppermanHOST
you know it's kind of fun i just had a guy on and totten just recently he's been on show many times about the Atlanta child murders.
Jen SchafferGUEST
And so from there, they found bodies in the boat shed.
Jen SchafferGUEST
And they found out that there was another accomplice.
Jen SchafferGUEST
So you had Elmer Wayne Henley Jr., who was an accomplice to Dean Corll.
Jen SchafferGUEST
You had another guy named David Brooks, who was an accomplice to Dean Corll, who ended up coming to the police department a day later.
Dan CumminsHOST
But a lot of silliness coming up.
Dan CumminsHOST
Now, the theme of creepy losers who want to make music with underage boys and have the world see them as a big shot carries over from the past few weeks of Wayne Williams and the Atlanta child murders.
Dan CumminsHOST
Except this creepy dude did make a lot of hit music, like huge hits, did become a dude everybody saw as a big shot.
Dan CumminsHOST
If you were alive and aware of American pop culture from the mid-90s to the early 2000s, there's no way you escaped the cultural influence of Lou Pearlman.
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Dan CumminsHOST
Renie would be 39 years old when she finally gave birth to her only living child, Lou.
Dan CumminsHOST
And it just hit me that...
Dan CumminsHOST
Yeah, it's just like the last few weeks with Wayne Williams.
Dan CumminsHOST
You know, his parents tried for years, couldn't have a kid, finally have one, spoiled the shit out of that kid.
Ed OppermanHOST
Mm.
Ian TotenGUEST
Uh, just through one of those, you know, various true crime novels It was pretty cut and dry about this guy, Wayne Williams.
Ian TotenGUEST
Uh, you know, he was, at least according to this, he was convicted for 28 murders of young boys and men, and the cases were closed.
Ian TotenGUEST
And then fast-forward, a podcaster out of Atlanta started doing a series on the show.
Ian TotenGUEST
And it was a decent series, but as it's going and I'm doing my show at the same time, he starts veering off into this narrative about the KKK being involved and being responsible for the entire thing.
Ian TotenGUEST
And then HBO piggybacks off of that and comes out with this docuseries where it's a bunch of talking heads.
Ian TotenGUEST
Some of them are family members, some of them are individuals like Mary Welcome, who was Wayne Williams's, uh, attorney during his trial, and they're all pointing the finger at the KKK for all of these crimes.
Ian TotenGUEST
This leads to the Atlanta Police Department reopening the Atlanta child murders-
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