Edward Hope Smith, a 14-year-old Black boy, disappeared in Atlanta after a night at the Greenbriar Skating Rink with his girlfriend on July 21, 1979. His family waited a week before a woman searching for cans found his body in a wooded area on July 28; he had been shot in the back. A nearby discovery that same day of 13-year-old Alfred Evans intensified fear that a predator was targeting Black children in the city.

Edward’s death was later folded into the broader Atlanta Child Murders investigation, a series of at least 28 killings of African American children, adolescents and young adults between 1979 and 1981.

Did anyone in Atlanta at the time have information about Edward’s last night at the skating rink or his movements afterward?