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In the summer of 1952, the respected Baptist preacher, Reverend William M. Elder, an African American man, fell violently ill after a meal of bananas and cheese. His wife, Roberta Elder, was by his side in their Eason Street home in Atlanta, Georgia. The doctor who was called in diagnosed him with a stomach ailment, but the Reverend's condition worsened. A day after he first fell ill, on August 21, 1952, he was dead. An autopsy would later reveal the sinister truth: Reverend Elder had not succum ...Read More

Victim Details

William Elder

Male

Black / African American

Atlanta

GA

1952-08-21

47

Reverend

William Elder

04/22/2026