Atlanta Monster

This riveting, and compelling story of this biggest robbery of children lives stolen is deeply abhorrent. So many unanswered questions, but the podcast for this huge Atlanta heartbreak was done very expertly. The details are just ghastly. A polarizing hidden truth out so publicly that it’s blinding. Listening becomes almost hypnotic. I’ve seen a documentary or two on this crime, but it does not compare to this podcast Atlanta Monster. So sad what happened, so tragic the resolution not real resolve for the parents. This is deep let me tell you. I have to add, only thing I didn’t particularly care for were the episodes on Q&A. It’s already designed as a Q& A within the series of this podcast.

I grew up during the timeframe when the Atlanta murders were happening - the era of serial killers. Lindsey creates a compelling narrative to tell the story. All the interviews where the interviewee is allowed to do all the talking - I loved it. Lindsey didn’t make the story about him, he let those involved and impacted tell the story. Before and through most of the podcast, I had the impression that Dwayne Williams may have been wrongly convicted. And although I still can’t figure out how he threw grown men over the edge of a bridge - I now have no doubt he committed many of the child murders. There are too many coincidences where Williams was always there when the murders happened, those who he tried to abduct but lived to tell about it, nothing doesn’t point to Williams, nothing. There’s a relief that the right man was convicted in this case. So many Black men are wrongly convicted and framed, but Dwayne Williams in not one of them. I liked that Lindsey didn’t try to steer the listener one way or the other about Williams - he just shared all the information and left it to the listener to decide.

By far the most chilling podcast I’ve ever heard. It made me furious, hopeful, and a downright investigator. Atlanta itself has a chilling past. Hearing that man recount his experience and saying “bye Rodney” was so goddamn chilling man. It was so good that I informed my book club that we were going in a different direction and all of us listened to the podcast - everyone loved the idea.

Thanks for making this podcast there are not many podcast out about black ppl and some of the ones out there barely touch the surface. I love the way this story is being told through the ppl who experienced and were affected by it.

Typical of certain podcasters in this genre, this podcast is riddled with inaccuracies. Very little of the trial evidence was presented. Lot’s of conjecture in interviews with people who had no connection to the actual investigation. Payne clearly set out to drive this story in a specific direction regardless of the actual facts.

Wayne Williams is trying to do ‘altruistic’ acts but it is truly cloaked in narcissism. He wants to do record deals from prison, and focus on the ‘families of the victims’ by presenting facts that he never actually physically has. He cannot disprove his guilt. He just wants air time because he is a narcissist that is continually duping people from inside and outside prison using his charisma. I don’t think he is responsible for the ‘26’ child murders, but I do believe he has culpability and responsibility for the adults deaths of the two men AT LEAST. Every excuse he presents is outlandish and easily disproved. This podcast started out well, but then it became skewed by allowing a killer to spout his rhetoric to the world with no real evidence. To put it plainly, it’s just plain stupid. Consult some psychologists before you go speak to narcissists next time.