In 1979, Atlanta became the center of one of the most disturbing criminal investigations in American history. As children began disappearing and turning up dead, fear spread rapidly through neighborhoods that had once felt safe. Families kept their children indoors, police faced mounting pressure, and rumors filled the streets as investigators struggled to understand who—or what—was behind the killings. Part One takes viewers back to the beginning of the Atlanta Child Murders, examining the first victims, the growing panic throughout the city, and the early investigation that would eventually become one of the most controversial cases in American history. This is where the story begins—before an arrest was made, before the headlines, when an entire city was living in fear.