In the winter of 1986, a sense of fear gripped a west Atlanta neighborhood as a series of brutal slayings began to unfold, preying on the community's most vulnerable. The first victim in this tragic chapter was Annie Rochelle Copeland, an 85-year-old Black woman living alone. On March 1, 1986, her life was violently taken within the supposed sanctuary of her own apartment. The scene discovered by authorities painted a grim picture of her final moments; she had been raped and smothered with a pil
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