Thirteen-year-old Alfred Evans disappeared from Atlanta on July 25, 1979. He was last seen getting a ride from a young man to a bus stop as he headed toward a theater on Peachtree Street. On July 28 his body was found in a wooded area off Niskey Lake Road in southwest Atlanta, alongside the body of another teenager, Edward Hope Smith. Authorities later identified the remains as Alfred Evans and listed the cause of death as probable asphyxiation by strangulation.

Evans’s killing was one of the first discovered in what became known as the Atlanta Child Murders, a series that claimed at least 28 mostly African American male victims over the next two years. A special task force and the FBI investigated; Wayne Williams was later named as a suspect and convicted in 1982 for two adult murders. Evans’s case was treated as a pattern case at Williams’s trial, though Williams was not specifically charged with Evans’s murder. Law enforcement later attributed a number of the child victims to Williams and closed those cases; Williams has maintained his innocence.

Anyone who knew Alfred, remembers his last movements on July 25, 1979, or has information about the area around Niskey Lake Road is asked to come forward.