Echo Of Murder
Two reporters searching for the truth… no matter where it takes them.
Atlanta - 1981. The city was terrorized by the brutal "Atlanta Child Murders." A shocked nation launched the largest manhunt in US History. A lone man was accused and convicted of some of the crimes and the case was closed.
Four years later, a magazine editor (Gregory Hines) and his best reporter (James Belushi) investigate charges that the original investigation was marred by incompetence, abandoned leads and tainted evidence. It seems only the truth will silence the lingering echo of murder.
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Decent Retelling of the Spin Magazine investigation into a possible KKK involvement - Shark4
Echo of Murder (retitled from the original name; "Who Killed Atlanta's Children") is a decent retelling of the investigation conducted by Spin magazine into rumours of a possible involvement of the KKK in the murders.
Jim Belushi and Gregory Hines do a good acting job, and the acting all around is fairly well done. Hines' character is particularly enjoyable. Unfortunately the movie suffers from a fairly weak script and a heavy handed bias which plays rather fast and loose with the facts.
Viewing the movie, you could be forgiven for thinking that Wayne Williams is innocent and that the release for his unjust conviction is a mere formality. The reality however is rather different. Many of the "facts" the movie cites to prove it's rather biased cause are rather flimsy and in the worst cases outright misrepresentations.
An example is where it states that Williams could not have dumped the body he was eventually caught for dumping, because he never stopped at the bridge. Of course there is no reason at all to think he didn't stop at the bridge to begin with, all we know is that his car was seen driving away just after the splash that the cops heard, at which pointed they stopped him.
For anyone renting this movie to learn about the williams murders themselves, there's very little here as the murder spree itself is given surprisingly little coverage. The vast majority of the film's time is spent looking at the alledged cover up which let the KKK get away with murder, and exploring the claims of two police informants. There's the testimony of a lady who saw a green car with a white man, at a location HOURS before a body was later found for example, as if this somehow proved anything.
It's a decent movie if you are interested in the subject. Just be aware of the bias, and take it's supposed "Facts" with a grain of salt.
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Decent Retelling of the Spin Magazine investigation into a possible KKK involvement - Shark4
Echo of Murder (retitled from the original name; "Who Killed Atlanta's Children") is a decent retelling of the investigation conducted by Spin magazine into rumours of a possible involvement of the KKK in the murders.
Jim Belushi and Gregory Hines ...