Wayne williams biography atlanta murders
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Wayne Williams
The curious and controversial string of deaths that sparked a two -year reign of terror in Atlanta, Georgia, have been labeled "children's" murders even though a suspect, ultimately blamed for 23 of 30 homicides, was finally convicted only in the deaths of two adult ex-convicts. Today, nearly a decade after that suspect's fängelse, the case remains, in many minds, an unsolved mystery.
Investigation of the case began, officially, on July 28, 1979. That afternoon, a woman hunting empty cans and bottles in Atlanta stumbled on a pair of corpses, vårdslöst concealed in roadside undergrowth. One victim, shot with a .22-caliber weapon, was identified as Edward Smith, 14, reported missing on July 21. The other was 13-year-old Alfred Evans, last seen alive on July 25. The coroner ascribed his death to "probable" asphyxiation. Both dead boys, like all of those to come, were black.
On September 4, Milton Harvey, age 14
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Wayne Williams
(1958-)
Who Is Wayne Willams?
Wayne Williams was born in Atlanta in 1958. In the midst of a rash of child murders in the late 1970s and early 1980s, fibers found on one victim matched those found in Williams's car and home, and he was arrested. Although labeled the Atlanta Child Murders, the case resulted in Williams only being found guilty of the murder of two adults. Due to convincing circumstantial and DNA evidence, Williams is thought to be responsible for the deaths of more than 20 others, although enough doubt remains to prevent further prosecution.
Atlanta Child Murders
Wayne Bertram Williams was born on May 27, 1958, in Atlanta, Georgia. Little has been reported about Williams’ early life, but his public journey to infamy began on July 28, 1979, when a woman in Atlanta came across two corpses hidden under bushes at the side of the road. Both were male, Black and children: Edward Smith, 14, reported missing a week before, was shot with a .22-caliber w
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Atlanta murders of 1979–1981
Series of at least 28 murders, mostly of children, in Atlanta, Georgia
"The Atlanta Child Murders" redirects here. For the 1985 miniseries, see The Atlanta Child Murders (miniseries).
The Atlanta murders of 1979–1981, sometimes called the Atlanta child murders, are a series of murders committed in Atlanta, Georgia, between July 1979 and May 1981. Over the two-year period, at least 28 children, adolescents, and adults were killed. Wayne Williams, an Atlanta native who was 23 years old at the time of the last murder, was arrested, tried, and convicted of two of the adult murders and sentenced to two consecutive life terms.
Police subsequently have attributed a number of the child murders to Williams, although he has not been charged in any of those cases, and Williams himself maintains his innocence, notwithstanding the fact that the specific style and manner of the killings, which was by chokehold-strangulation, ceased after his arrest.
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