A story is nothing without vivid characters, and the new HBO documentary has "the goods": * Wayne Williams , gifted child in a "respectable home," who may have (may have) grown up to murder several kids in Atlanta. * Atlanta itself , eager to seem above America's racial tensions ("a city too busy to hate"), and also guilty of lying, on several fronts. * The outspoken mom-of-victim (like Mari Gilbert, but from an earlier era), boldly correcting privileged Tom Brokaw on the air, when Brokaw seems unable/unwilling to do some basic research on the story he is reporting. I really liked (weird verb here) the first hour. I'm curious to see Part II...... https://www.hbo.com/atlantas-missing-and-murdered-the-lost-children