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Fbi profiler roy hazelwood came down to help. three detectives drove him around the city and turned into jefferey mathis neighborhood. >> as soon as we turned on to that street, everything stopped. a guy cutting the grass stopped. guys playing dominos on the porch stopped. i said, whats going on? everything stopped. they said, laughingly, thats because we have a honky in the car. >> john glover, who took over as fbi chief in atlanta that summer, said thats why he and hazelwood decided the killer...

Force until a year after the first murders began. fbi profiler roy hazelwood came down to help. three detectives drove him around the city and turned into jefferey mathis neighborhood. >> as soon as we turned on to that street, everything stopped. a guy cutting the grass stopped. guys playing dominos on the porch stopped. i said, whats going on? everything stopped. they said, laughingly, thats because we have a honky in the car. >> john glover, who took over as fbi chief in atlanta that summer, ...

[ engine sputtering ] [ male announcer ] engine light on? come to meineke now for a free code scan read and youll say...my money. my choice. my meineke. in the spring of 1980, police were still reluctant to listen to camille bell. >> children were dying on the streets of atlanta in the daytime. >> among them, jefferey mathis, only 10. like yusef bell, he walked down the street on an errand to this gas station to buy cigarettes for his mother. she never saw him again.

Three detectives drove him around the city and turned into jefferey mathis neighborhood. >> as soon as we turned on to that street, everything stopped. a guy cutting the grass stopped. guys playing dominos on the porch stopped. i said, whats going on? everything stopped. they said, laughingly, thats because we have a honky in the car. >> john glover, who took over as fbi chief in atlanta that summer, said thats why he and hazelwood decided the killer had to be black. >> the killer is someone who...

Gas station to buy cigarettes for his mother. she never saw him again. >> what we had here was a predator. and what he was looking for was somebody who was cut off from the herd. and if you dont realize youre in trouble until youre in trouble, then you have no way of getting out. >> it would be another year before jefferey mathis body was found in the woods, miles from his home. his mother would join camille bell in forming a committee to confront the citys leaders. >> the reaction of the police...

>> what we had here was a predator. and what he was looking for was somebody who was cut off from the herd. and if you dont realize youre in trouble until youre in trouble, then you have no way of getting out. >> it would be another year before jefferey mathis body was found in the woods, miles from his home. his mother would join camille bell in forming a committee to confront the citys leaders. >> the reaction of the police was that we were overreacting and that there was no serial killer. >> ...

this was to be the last night, almost the last hour. >> i heard the splash. >> bob campbell, a police recruit, jumped to his feet down beside the chattahoochee river. >> i was really startled. it sounded like a body entering the water. >> he looked up at the bridge. >> and i saw brake lights of a car coming. i saw red lights. the car started slowly moving away from me across the bridge. >> campbell radioed the other team members up above him. >> i asked, did a car stop on the bridge? b...

>> police were slow to recognize these deaths were different. many of the bodies were left in the woods, far from home, unlike most murder victims who are found where they fall. >> unsolved murders of children is very rare. if a 9-year-old got killed, it was because somebody slapped him across the room, he hit his head and he died. >> police did not create a task force until a year after the first murders began. fbi profiler roy hazelwood came down to help. three detectives drove him around the ...

The woods, far from home, unlike most murder victims who are found where they fall. >> unsolved murders of children is very rare. if a 9-year-old got killed, it was because somebody slapped him across the room, he hit his head and he died. >> police did not create a task force until a year after the first murders began. fbi profiler roy hazelwood came down to help. three detectives drove him around the city and turned into jefferey mathis neighborhood. >> as soon as we turned on to that street, ...