Psychic Roberta Chadwick Leads Prayer Session for Atlanta's Missing and Murdered Children (3/17/81)

Voiceover: Various psychics from all over the country met at Hillside Chapel and Truth Center to discuss the case and their goal of solving the Atlanta child murders; Roberta Chadwick, a psychic from Kansas City, led the meeting. Footage: A full moon; the outside of the center; various people in the meeting; the psychics prayer (some natural sound); Chadwick leading the meeting; reporters leaving the meeting. Atlanta Missing and Murdered Children Story Reporter: Harasin, Lynn UPI ARCHIVES MARCH 17, 1981 Mystics attempting mass vision to find child killers By MARK MAYFIELD ATLANTA -- Psychics in Atlanta, where 20 black children have been slain and residents of one housing project are arming dropouts with baseball bats, called for a burst of 'combined energy' from the nation's seers tonight in an effort to pinpoint the killers. There also were reports that police are still investigating the possibility a cult is behind some of the killings and that detectives met during the weekend with Ted Patrick, the prominent cult 'deprogrammer.' ADVERTISEMENT A group called the 'People of the Light' wants everyone in the country who believes they can experience 'psychic impressions or Christian visions' to do so at 8:30 p.m. EST tonight, said spokeswoman Roberta Chadwick, who came from Kansas City in December and has stayed since then to try to find the killers. Monday she said the group would gather to contribute their own impulses and would correlate any information sent in from other psychics. 'If something results from the collective energies, we will pass it on to the task force' investigating the killings, she said, adding that the task force had not properly followed up previous tips she has provided. 'We know combined energy would help.' ADVERTISEMENT The Atlanta Constitution, meanwhile, said its sources reported a task force officer met during the weekend with Patrick to discuss the possibility of cult involvement in the killings. Attorney Paul W. Sloniowski said Patrick agreed to give the task force 'information on different cults they have in their dossier here in Atlanta. Right now, it doesn't appear there's much connection, if any, between cults and the child killings. It's just another avenue to follow.' Public Safety Commissioner Lee P. Brown said Monday he 'does not condone' the setting up of a band of dropouts armed with baseball bats to watch the children in one city housing project. Residents of the Techwood-Clark Howell project said they were organizing teen-age school dropouts in the project and giving them baseball bats to stand watch over smaller children. They complained that police responded too slowly to their calls. City officials said due to procedural red tape it may be several weeks before they can begin drawing on the $1.5 million the federal government granted it last week to finance the investigation. The Police Department's missing persons bureau said it was still looking for Timothy Hill, a 13-year-old youth fitting the victims' profile who was last seen by his family Wednesday. ADVERTISEMENT Friends of Hill reported seeing him as late as Friday, however, and his case was still being handled as a runaway. In addition to the 20 murders on the list being handled by the special task force, there are two missing children. One, Darron Glass, 10, disappeared last year. The other, Joseph Bell, 15, was added to the list last week.