Frank Ski Interviews Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and Wayne Williams’ Attorney After Announcement That Atlanta Child Murders Case Is Being Reopened

Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced on March 21 that authorities are going to reexamine evidence in the case of the Atlanta child murders, which occurred between 1979 and 1981 and continue to haunt the city today, since there are so many unanswered questions.

In 2004, V-103’s Frank Ski got an exclusive interview with Wayne Williams in prison, and Frank was featured on Dr. Oz earlier in the week, discussing the Wayne Williams interview. Back then, Frank's interview helped reopen the case later that year, although ultimately it would be closed again. Today, 14 years later, Frank spoke with the mayor on the case being looked at once again, as well as the lawyer who represents Wayne Williams, the man convicted and assumed to be responsible for the killings. 

One particularly emotional moment was when Mayor Bottoms listened to recorded audio of Frank speaking with Catherine Leach-Bell, who lost her son Curtis Walker to the Atlanta Child Murders. As the conversation played, and Leach-Bell described the moment when former Atlanta mayor Maynard Jackson personally visited her after her son’s body was recovered and identified, Mayor Bottoms wiped tears from her eyes. “For me,” she said, “putting myself in the shoes of these mothers, I can’t begin to imagine.

Frank says he also held back tears. Speaking in his office at V-103 after coming off the airwaves about the interview and the reopened case, he called it “very emotional, but exciting at the same time, because of the possibility of finally getting these families some closure.”

“I see now that there are too many unanswered questions. And like the mayor said, it’s not about Wayne – it’s about our city and all the other people that were affected.”