Mindhunter will tackle the Atlanta Child Murders when it returns for Season 2 on Aug. 16

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“You could probably do three seasons on the Atlanta Child Murders,” David Fincher said on KCRW’s The Treatment podcast. “It’s a huge and sweeping and tragic story. We couldn’t do it justice in the background of our nine hours. We had to choose to dramatize” The Atlanta Child Murders were a series of killings between 1979 and 1987 that left 28 African-American children, teens and adults dead. While the Atlanta Child Murders will drive the narrative of Season 2, Fincher said Charles Manson and Son of Sam are also integral to the new episodes as interest in serial killers has exploded on a national scale. “In the 70s, post-Manson, post-Son of Sam, post-Zodiac, there really was, I don’t think you can say it was an epidemic, but there was definitely the feeling that the notion of this has gotten away from us,” Fincher said about the atmosphere of Season 2. “There was this transition. I remember it happening with Son of Sam. When I left the Bay Area in the mid 1970s and our parents moved to Oregon, you go 300 miles north and nobody talked about Zodiac. It had been this festering thing that had never been brought to any kind of closure but no one cared about it (outside of the Bay Area). Then Son of Sam came, and it was Newsweek and Time, the cover.”