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MILDRED GLOVER Representative, District 82 House of Representatives Atlante fan reie AN3TD Allama, GEO ao le Telephone: 404-755-3434 Atlanta. Georgia August 19, 1982 Mr. William Bradford Reynolds Assistant Attorney General Civil Rights Division U. 8. Department of Justice Washington, D. C. 20530 Dear Mr. Reynolds: After a nine-week trial in early 1982, Wayne Williams was convicted and sentenced for the murder of two adults in the Atianta child killings. Subsequent to his conviction, local authorities announced that twenty-two (22) children cases which appear to be related would also be closed. Not one of the closed cases was brought to trial. Parents of the children, first bewildered by the investigative treat- ment given their children's murders and enraged at the knowledge that the conviction of Williams for two murders would suffice for all of them, sought my assistance for justice beyond the state of Georgia. They contend that their children were killed because they were black and that they, themselves, have been treated as second-class citizens in their effort to seek relief because they, too, are poor and black. Furthermore, their opinions are substantiated by extensive testimony in the form of written and recorded information which provide names, dates, and places suggesting a racist intent in the children's murders. It is against this background that the parents and-I entered into COMMITTEES STATE INSTITUTIONS & PROPERTY Eieemosynar institutions TEMPERANCE, Vice Chairman UNIVERSITY SYSTEM of GEQRGIA regular and lengthy discussions of the missing and murdered children -in Atlanta. As a State Representative from a district where many of the children lived, or were last seen, or were found, I consider it an important stewardship responsibility to respond to the parents in their request. After a careful study and review of the information, I am led to . believe that the parents' contention that discrimination was the : a valid one. motive in their children's deaths is, indeed, It is in the parents behalf that I write this letter to present the case of discrimination in the Atlanta child killings-~that the a children were killed because of color. Evidence strongly suggests Yo YS ENCLOSUpE