but in Atlanta, when something heinous happens, someone has to take the fall. And it's not always accurate. From my internal Wayback machine, there were the Atlanta Child Murders (a few years either side of 1980). I was at an engineering conference in Atlanta during my junior year of High School and at the time, Georgia Tech had very little dorm space. They could only guarantee on-campus housing for year 1. Not exactly a way to attract students during that tumultuous time in Atlanta regional history. That one event, of which I'm still not sure Wayne Williams had much to do with it, cemented my decision to attend Auburn University, though the campuses are about the same distance from where I went to High School.