Unknowable Truths

In The Evidence of Things Not Seen, written by James Baldwin in 1985, Baldwin writes about the murder of at least 21 Black children in Atlanta between 1979–1980:

Bring out your dead:
Edward Hope Smith, 14. Reported missing July 20, 1979. Found dead on July 28 of gunshot wounds along a road in a wooded area.

Bring out your dead:
Alfred James Evans, 13. Last seen July 25, 1979, waiting to catch a bus. Police identified Evans’s body October 13, 1980, after it was found July 28 near the body of Edward Hope Smith. Strangulation.