In the spring of 1980, a shadow of fear had already begun to stretch across the city of Atlanta as children, predominantly African-American, were disappearing with alarming frequency. It was in this atmosphere of growing dread that 11-year-old Jeffery Lamar Mathis vanished. On March 11, the young boy, a student at Joel Chandler Harris Elementary, was sent on a simple errand by his mother to a local service station. Witnesses would later report seeing him, with one account describing him getting
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