He has appealed his convictions, but they have been denied several times. In 2018, Williams and the Atlanta Child Murders were the subject of the true crime podcast Atlanta Monster, hosted by Payne Lindsey and co-produced by Tenderfoot TV and HowStuffWorks. [8], Williams was questioned again by police for 12 hours on June 3 and 4 at FBI headquarters and released without arrest or charge, but remained under surveillance. Early life Allwith the exception of Glasswere found dead. I guess with no more GOT or Sopranos or they have nothing better to do with their time over there. However, police attributed 22 other deaths, including those of 18 minors, to Williams. Originally posted Thursday, March 21, 2019 by RODNEY HO/rho@ajc.com on his AJC Radio &. The series was semi-fictional, but generally stuck to the real story. He was first depicted in the 1985 television miniseries The Atlanta Child Murders and was played by Calvin Levels. LOS ANGELES (AP) Anthony Terrell believes an imprisoned man currently serving two life sentences may not have been the person who murdered his brother as part of a killing spree that rocked Atlanta four decades ago. The gravitational force of Bells eloquence and dignity in archival footage tends to bend any depiction of the Atlanta murders in the direction of her beliefs, and Bell believed that Williams is innocent. He was found guilty and ordered to serve two consecutive life sentences. "[18], Other observers have criticized the thoroughness of the investigation and the validity of its conclusions. John Douglas arrived in Atlanta shortly after, tracing the crime scenes and beginning work on his profile. Police thought that Williams had killed Cater and that his body was the source of the sound they heard as his car crossed the bridge. But when two bodies of children were found in the woods in July of 1979 and the body count kept rising in shocking numbers, the nation and the world looked at Atlanta and wondered how this could be happening. The series kicks off with Bottoms announcing the citys effort to re-examine evidence. He is now remembered for a 2 year reign of terror in Atlanta, Georgia that involved at least 23 homicides and became known as the "Atlanta Child Murders". If there were ever a real-life cold case that cried out for a brilliant, obsessed investigator like Val McDermids Tony Hill or Idris Elbas Luther, its the Atlanta child murders of 1979 to 1981. Between 1979 and 1981, more than 28 people, mostly children, were found dead or declared missing. [2], Wayne Williams, son of Homer and Faye Williams, was born on May 27, 1958, and raised in the Dixie Hills neighborhood of southwest Atlanta, Georgia. Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. A native New Yorker, he has covered education at The Virginian-Pilot, small business for The Wall Street Journal and a host of beats at the AJC over 20-plus years. Wayne Williams: The Atlanta Child Murders Name:_____ 1.
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