20. Patrick Baltazar
12 year old Patrick Wayne Balt(h)azar's (125lbs) home was in a Vine City apartment, 435 Foundry Street, located near the corner of Haynes, where the Georgia Dome is now. He lived in a one room apartment with his father Russell, stepmother Sheila, and brothers Roger and Donald Ray/Rae near the Omni, where his father worked, and would go there to the Galaxy Three arcade to sell candy via a tunnel. The rest of his 9 brothers and 4 sisters lived with his mother, Grace, in New Orleans. He had friends at 2nd Avenue and Memorial and used to play on Jimmy Raye Payne's front yard with him.
Baltazar attended Bethune Elementary. He sold newspapers, cleaned at Fisherman's Cove restaurant, washed dishes at Papa's Country Buffet on Buford Hwy, and sold cotton candy at the Omni. In one incident, when Baltazar was destroying stolen furniture with another youth, a man chased after them. Baltazar got to a phone and called the task force, saying a man was going to get him. Noone responded to the call. |
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 Omni game room |
 Fisherman's Cove |
Patrick Baltazar was last seen at his father's place of work, Fisherman's Cove (201 Courtland Street Northeast), getting money from him to attend the Golden Gloves boxing match or to play at the Omni. Witnesses later reported seeing him until midnight at Galaxy Three Arcade in the Omni.
1730 Friday 06 February 1981
1730 Friday 06 February 1981
Photographs removed per request by the family.
Patrick Baltazar's body was found in Corporate Square, between I-85 and Buford Hwy near Briarcliff, in an overgrown area behind the complex, between the complex and some apartments, by a maintenance man for the Corporate Square business office complex.
A dental assistant, Margaret "Patsy" Jackson, who worked in the complex, had seen a light green 68-69 Chevy Impala parked in the area with no other cars around at 7:15 that morning. Inside the car was a white man in his late 20's with brown shoulder-length hair, a small mustache, and close-set eyes, wearing a flannel plaid shirt, who stared at her until she entered the building.
Scrapes, bruises and dog hairs found on the body. His cause of death was asphyxiation by ligature strangulation.
1400 13 February 1981
The authorities considered this to be a "pattern case" in Williams' conviction.
A dental assistant, Margaret "Patsy" Jackson, who worked in the complex, had seen a light green 68-69 Chevy Impala parked in the area with no other cars around at 7:15 that morning. Inside the car was a white man in his late 20's with brown shoulder-length hair, a small mustache, and close-set eyes, wearing a flannel plaid shirt, who stared at her until she entered the building.
Scrapes, bruises and dog hairs found on the body. His cause of death was asphyxiation by ligature strangulation.
1400 13 February 1981
The authorities considered this to be a "pattern case" in Williams' conviction.
 Russell Baltazar |
 The funeral was Tuesday, Feb. 17, 1981 at 11 a.m. from St. Anthony's Catholic Church, 928 Gordon St., S.W. (at Ashby St.) with remains placed in state from 9 a.m. and the cortege ant 10am. Fr. John Adamski officiated. The remains were then flown to Baton Rouge, La. Herschel Thornton Mortuary, 3346 M.L. King Jr. Dr. S.W."
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