Vincent Watson wrote letter to Cobb County police. Claimed to know two men involved in murder of Patrick Rogers. Watson was transferred to Cobb County jail, but let loose to search the streets at night for the men. Watson went to Marquett Club (a rough place frequented by homosexuals). Watson disappeared from the club. Williams is known to have visited the club. Atlanta missing and murdered children story.

Charles Watson a.k.a. Vincent Watson whistleblowing
From p.493-494 of The List:

Lee Brown also was greeted in Houston by another of those coincidences from the Atlanta murder cases. Before the arrest of Wayne Williams in 1981, Charles Watson, a 23-year-old street hustler and ninth-grade dropout from Atlanta, was serving time for a robbery conviction in a Georgia prison. However, records show that the inmate was using his teen-age brother’s name—“Vincent Watson.” “He had his brother’s driver’s license with him and I guess nobody checked things out,” a Cobb County, Georgia, detective said.
From his cell, Watson convinced the authorities that he had information about Atlanta’s killings and could help find the killer. Watson had written letters to the police and several prominent black leaders, contending that he knew two of the victims and possibly the person who had killed them. One detective said Watson had described himself, in his letters, as a homosexual who knew some child molesters.
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In May of 1981, Watson went to work as an undercover informant for the Task Force, with Lee Brown ultimately approving the decision to allow him to participate in the investigation.
Watson rode with plainclothes officers who took him to the vicinity of several bars, including homosexual hangouts. The officers would stay in their unmarked car, and Watson would go inside a bar to await a contact. One night in June of 1981, Watson went into the Marquiett Club on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and didn’t come back.
We later learned that Watson mostly sneaked out the back door and visited his girlfriend at her apartment late at night—before reversing his field and rejoining the police through the front door. Atlanta authorities had a felony escape warrant on Watson. Some detectives thought he had been abducted from the bar and killed.
Months later, Watson’s girlfriend would tell reporter Jonathan Dahl of the Houston Chronicle, Watson—“Chuckie,” she called him—followed her to her new residence in Houston. There, Watson was arrested in September of 1981 for driving without a license and for two other minor traffic violations. He told authorities his real name—Charles Watson—and spent one night in jail before paying a $150 fine.
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On April 5, 1982, Charles Watson was found by his girlfriend lying in a pool of blood on the floor of her apartment. Another woman friend of Watson told police that three men broke into the apartment and beat him. A gun also went off, the bullet wounding Watson in the back of his head. He lapsed into unconsciousness.
Authorities in Georgia said they doubted that Watson’s shooting had anything to do with Atlanta’s murders. Lee Brown, when contacted by the Chronicle reporter, refused comment

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