ATLANTA — The civil rights cold case in the fourth season of Atlanta radio station WABE’s “Buried Truths” podcast is the most complex story journalist and educator Hank Klibanoff has ever studied.
It’s a case Klibanoff has tackled multiple times over 12 years of teaching his cold cases class at Emory University. Of the 190 students who have taken his class, 86 have helped him dig through the now 65-year-old story, which involved multiple deaths, blatant cover ups and witness and evidence tampering. The focal point is the death of James Brazier, a 31-year-old Black man in Terrell County, about 25 miles from Albany.
Now it’s been turned into a nine-episode podcast season co-written by former Atlanta Journal-Constitution journalist Richard Halicks. The season debuted last month and has been unspooling weekly.
