Roughly a year later, on July 7, 1980, Carter's body was found "dead, decomposed, face-down on a grassy bank in the rear of a warehouse," according to the Fulton County Medical Examiner's report.Ĭarter had been stabbed multiple times in his chest and back, the report said. In an attempt to give Carter some stability, he left Hogansville in the summer of 1979 for Atlanta to reunite with his mother. had no love for Tony wasn't there," Burnston said. "His mom didn't give him the attention he needed.
Part of the reason for Carter's transient life was because his mother was living in Atlanta, Burnston said. He was real fast when it came to sports," Bright told CNN over the phone. He was a little shorter than everybody, he was stocky. "Anthony was a very nice, intelligent little boy. One of the homes where Carter stayed belonged to LaTunya Bright's great-grandmother. "I thought he would have been a football player," Burnston said.Ĭarter lived primarily with his grandmother but would move among the homes of other family members and on more than one occasion, was caught sleeping in a Hogansville baseball field, Burnston said. He always smiled."Ĭarter liked eating bologna and spiced ham sandwiches, along with fried chicken, his favorite food, Burnston said. He had speed that no one could match, no one. "Anthony was a smiling, muscular young man that was very smart who had just moved onto the fifth grade," Burnston told CNN. Nicholas Burnston remembers playing with his younger cousin when they were boys. 31, 1970, in Hogansville, of Troup County, which, in 1980, was home to roughly 50,000 people, according to US Census data published by the Associated Press. "He was a sweet child."Ĭarter was born on Aug. He never had a chance," Jenkins said, crying. The headstone, which is made of granite and features small engraved flowers, was placed near where the family believes Carter was buried, in a cemetery in his hometown of Hogansville, Georgia, to provide some closure for his family, who hope the reopened investigation into the Atlanta child murders definitively solves Carter's case.Īuthorities reopened the investigation in March 2019 into the murders that took place between the 1970s and 80s to re-examine the evidence in hopes technological breakthroughs may point to a definite killer in the cases, most of which were never solved.Ĭarter's death has loomed particularly large for Hazel Jenkins, his 85-year-old aunt.Ĭarter stayed with Jenkins often after his mother Vera left for Atlanta for an unknown reason in the late 1970s, Jenkins, who is Vera's older sister, told CNN over the phone.
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