The Nation - News from April 24, 1986
A 31-year-old man was charged with raping and killing one of four elderly black women whose slayings terrorized a west Atlanta neighborhood, and police said they would seek indictments against him in the three other cases. Richard Hunter, who is also black, was charged with murder, rape and burglary in the death of 85-year-old Annie Rochelle Copeland, who was smothered with a pillow in her apartment, Public Safety Commissioner George Napper said. Her body was found March 1.
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