The air in the newsroom of The Atlanta Journal Constitution, the city's biggest newspaper, was thick with tension. It was the newspaper's tradition to withhold the name of a suspect in a criminal investigation who was neither a fugitive nor officially charged with a crime. Did they dare break with tradition in the case of the Handcuff Man?

Robert Lee Bennett
Jr.
(Fulton County
D.A.'s Office)

As reporter Richard Greer noted, the name of Robert Lee Bennett Jr. was "meaningless to most