“Everybody was scared . . . It was just something we had to deal with,” says Eric in Atlanta Monster, a new podcast about the child killings that took place in Atlanta, Georgia between 1979 and 1981. Eric was a child himself when children started disappearing from his neighbourhood. Days or sometimes weeks later, the bodies would be found, dumped in nearby woods, behind abandoned buildings or in the Chattahoochee River. Television news anchors began opening their evening shows with the question: “Do you know where your children are?” As the former Atlanta broadcaster Monica Kaufman Pearson recalls: “People needed to be reminded there was a monster on the prowl.”
You may think that the last thing podcasting needs is yet another true-crime series. On paper, Atlanta Monster, made by the team behind the Up and Vanished podcast that investigated the 2005 disappearance of Georgia…