ATLVault: Cold case double homicide beginning trial on Monday

Police share new details in 2021 cold case of Atlanta couple | ATL Vault

Atlanta police have released a dramatic video and the 911 call related to the Dec. 18, 2021, double homicide of a couple who were shot to death in front of their two children [https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2025/05/05/police-give-update-cold-case-atlanta-couple-search-suspect-continues/].

ATLVault: Cold case double homicide beginning trial on Monday

Jury selection is set to begin Monday in the trial of a man accused in the 1990 DeKalb County double homicide of a sister and brother.    Kenneth Perry, 56, is accused of stabbing Pamela and Joseph Sumter  on July 15, 1990.   On June 26, 2024, a grand jury indicted Perry after police said DNA evidence eventually linked what had been a cold case back to him. Samuel Bassett, a veteran criminal defense attorney based with Minton Bassett Flores and Carsey, talks about the role DNA evidence played in Perry's indictment, and how both prosecutors and defense attorneys should proceed as Perry's trial unfolds.

ATLVault: Hank Aaron rendezvous with sports immortality, 50 years ago

Over a long, distinguished career as an American sports journalist, Terence Moore likely interviewed Hank Aaron more than anyone. In fact, Moore said he was the last media professional to interview Aaron before his death on Jan. 22, 2021. “Hank once said to me, ‘Of all the books that’ve been written about me, and of the documentaries produced about me, no one truly knows the real Hank Aaron,” Moore said, recalling a conversation with baseball’s true home run king. “And I said, ‘Well, we need to do a book.’ And Hank says, ‘Yes, we do.’ ” Moore is sharing more than three decades of interviews and conversations with Aaron in “The Real Hank Aaron: An Intimate Look at the Life and Legacy of the Home Run King [https://www.therealhankaaron.com/].” Aaron gained his hard-earned immortality in American sports history 50 years ago [https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2024/03/29/hank-aaron-ties-babe-ruth-atlanta-braves-opening-day-50-years-ago/] over the course of four days in April 1974. https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2024/04/04/atlvault-hank-aaron-rendezvous-with-sports-immortality-50-years-ago/

ATLVault: The most infamous crime in Super Bowl history

Atlanta’s very first Super Bowl remains arguably the most exciting in NFL history. The crime that happened only hours later remains the Super Bowl's most infamous. Hours after the St. Louis Rams withstood a furious, late-game and last-second surge from the Tennessee Titans to win their first-ever NFL championship, two men were stabbed to death outside a Buckhead nightclub. Ray Lewis - a Baltimore Ravens linebacker already well on his way to an NFL Hall of Fame career - was leaving Buckhead’s Cobalt Lounge when the fight broke out at the nightclub. Jacinth Baker and Richard Lollar were stabbed to death Eleven days later, Lewis and two friends - Joseph Sweeting and Reginald Oakley - were arrested and charged with double murder. Lewis later pleaded guilty to obstruction, received one year’s probation, and was fined by the NFL for $250,000. Less than a year later, he would be named MVP of Super Bowl 36, which was won by the Baltimore Ravens. Tim Livingston recently finished a three-year investigation into the murders, which remain unsolved. He is the host of 'The Raven,' and his podcast can be heard wherever you receive your podcasts. Listen to all of Atlanta News First’s podcasts [https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/page/podcasts/], now available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Amazon Music, and wherever you get your podcasts.

ATLVault: Atlanta Constitution building, Buckhead African-American cemetery are among Places in Peril

he old offices where legendary Atlanta newspapermen like Ralph McGill toiled, and a long-forgotten African-American burial ground in the heart of Buckhead have been listed as places in peril by the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation. Each year, the trust [https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2022/11/17/chickamauga-valdosta-10-places-peril-identified-by-georgia-trust/] releases a list of 10 places in peril [https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2022/11/16/historic-auburn-avenue-building-listed-peril/] throughout the state, a list the organization hopes will raise awareness about Georgia’s historic, archaeological and cultural resources that are threatened by demolition, neglect, lack of maintenance, inappropriate development or poor public policy. “This is the Trust’s nineteenth annual Places in Peril list,” said W. Wright Mitchell, president and CEO of the trust. “We hope the list will continue to bring preservation solutions to Georgia’s imperiled historic resources by highlighting 10 representative sites.”