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Forensic Science

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Background of crime

From 1979 to 1981, 29 people were strangled by Wayne Williams, which were

majority children between the ages 7 and 14 in Atlanta. After a two year killing spree of

young black males, the only clues discovered were fibers and dog hair found on the bodies

and clothing of the victims. These fibers were discovered before Wayne Williams became a

suspect. There were two types of fibers; numerous yellowish-green nylon fibers and some

violet acetate fibers. After police heard loud splashes in the Chattahoochee River, police kept

an eye out to see if anything uncommon continued. After hearing a loud splash from the

James Jackson Parkway Bridge, the police spotted a station wagon.

The Death

Wayne Williams had a distinct and consistent pattern in the way his victims were

killed. A pattern progressively emerged, one that linked a majority of the murders. Wayne

Williams’ victims were all from south Atlanta and young black males. Majority of the

victims had been strangled to death. Not only were the victims strangled, evidence indicated

that some were even sexually abused and majority were half naked. Some even had

homosexual relationships.

Investigation of the Investigators

Police spotted William’s car right above the sound of a loud splash heard in the river.

When the police stopped him, Williams was questioned and gave the police an address and

phone number that didn’t exist. This incident made police suspicious when Wayne Williams

gave false answers when he was asked questions. A few days later, Nathaniel Carter’s naked

body was found in the river and was suffocated. Police suspected that Williams had killed

Carter and threw him off the bridge the night they had pulled him over. After Williams failed

a polygraph test, their suspicion grew, and hair and fibers on one of the victims’ bodies were

found in Williams’ home, car, and dog.

Even before Williams became a suspect, Georgia State Crime Laboratory found many

nylon fibers on the bodies of the victims murdered in Atlanta. After William became a

suspect, the investigators determined the source of the fibers’ manufacture. The next step

was to figure out how much of that specific carpeting had been sold in the Atlanta area where

the murders happened. The investigators determined that the chance of randomly finding a

house with Williams’ carpet was one in 7,792. Other evidence linked 10 other victims to 28

different fiber types and only one was common. Although Williams was convicted for

murdering two adults, police blamed him for the murders of 29 African American boys and

men. There were numerous people involved and many forensic scientists. Each person had a

different responsibly and contributed in either finding dead bodies, investigating, finding

fibers and hairs, and proving Wayne guilty. Chet Dettlinger created a map of where the

victims were killed. Even with the age differences of the victims, they all fell into the same

geometric parameters. All were connected in 11 major streets in Atlanta.

History of the Time Period

During the 1980’s, Reagan continued a sustained economic recovery, driven by the

outstanding bull markets on Wall Street. The stock market had soaring profits in the stock

market, making people become millionaires. In this time period, the economy was

improving and growing, but the black population remained very poor. With all the poverty,

the rate of crimes increased, with the communities trying to survive. With the crime rate

growing out of control, Atlanta progressed into one of the most dangerous cities in the

United States. Atlanta got so dangerous; many businesses would leave the country to find

safer cities for their meetings. People believed that Williams was affiliated with the KKK

and wanted to exterminate the black population, that’s why he targeted many young African

American kids. Williams claimed that he was framed for the murders to cover up for the

KKK in the killings to avoid a race war in Atlanta.

List of suspects, their backgrounds, and alibis

Edward Hope Smith was 14 years old and in the summer of 1979, disappeared. Alfred

Evans, also 14 years old, vanished four days apart. Both of their bodies were found on July

28 and the series of murders were believed to be committed by the Atlanta Child Murder.

Milton Harvey, also 14 years old went missing on September 4, 1979, while traveling to the

bank to pay a credit card bill for his mother. Yusuf Bell disappeared after going to the store

to buy something for a neighbor on October 21, 1979. His body was found in an elementary

school and was strangled. The police didn’t think Bell’s death had anything to do with the

disappearance of the other victims. The next victim was Angel Lenair, who was a 12 year old

female. She had disappeared on March 4, 1980 and found six days later, strangled, tied to a

tree and perhaps sexually assaulted. Also, Jeffery Mathis vanished on March 11, 1980, while

running an errand for his mother. On June 9, Chris Richardson went missing when he was on

his way to a community pool. On June 22 and 23, seven year old Latonya Wilson and Aaron

Wyche a ten year old, went missing also. After a countless amount of local children

disappearing, the city and parents and government struggled to keep children safe. This

didn’t stop Wayne Williams from continuing to kill. In July 1980, two more children were

murdered; Anthony Carter and Earl Terell. Five more killing occurred between August and

November 1980. The first victim murdered in 1981 was Lubie Geter, who disappeared on

January 3. Geter’s friend Pue, went missing in January. An anonymous caller told the police

where Pue’s body could be found.

Almost all the victims were African American children between the ages of nine and

14 and majority had been strangled. In March, four murders took place that linked the other

murders. The first adult victim was Eddie Duncan who was killed in March. In April, Larry

Rogers, and John Porter, an ex-convict, and Jimmy Ray Payne were murdered. William

Barrett was found dead close to him home in May. The last victim was Nathaniel Cater who

was 27 years old.

Psychological Profile of Suspect

For somebody to murder more than 20 people in two years is out of control. That is

equivalent to murdering a person a month. Also, majority of the victims were young African

American children, meaning someone would have committed this crime if they had

something against a certain race. Somebody must be mentally unstable is they were able to

see or even worse kill dozens of people without feeling guilty, and continue to kill more.

Wayne lived with his parents and only had a couple friends. He was known around

town to exaggerate and be a pathological liar, saying he had major record deals. As a kid he

had his own radio station and wanted to make a big name for himself. Wayne impersonated a

police officer and illegal use of a vehicle, causing him to be arrested but not imprisoned. The

vehicle was illegally equipped with red lights under the grille and the dashboard had blinking

blue lights. There were rumors that he was homosexual, explains why majority of the victims

were half naked and male.

Forensic Evidence

On January 6, 1982, Williams’ trial began. The case depended on circumstantial

evidence. In the two month trial, prosecutors matched 19 different sources of fibers from his

house. The fibers were found in his bed, bathroom, gloves, clothes, carpet and dog. The

unusual fibers from the carpet helped link numerous victims. DNA tests on seven dog hairs

were a part of the forensic case against Williams which proved him guilty to 12 murders.

Rayon was found on the victim’s shorts, Payne, which had been matched to the carpet

in Wayne Williams’s station wagon. In the trial, the participants introduced a chart showing

twelve other victims of the Atlanta killings and how they corresponded. On each victim’s

body, three to six fibers were found that was traced to Williams home, station wagon, or his

dog hair.

Not only was there forensic evidence, there were also eyewitness testimonies. Blood

stains from victims matching blood in Williams’ car, and a testimony that he was a pedophile

who was attracted to young black boys, added another component to the case. After ten hours

of analysis, the jury found Williams guilty for murdering Carter and Payne. He was then

sentenced to two successive terms of life imprisonment. After his conviction, the

investigators found more than two dozen other cases.

Others

About 50 volunteers went out in a cold

Sunday drizzle to scour wooded areas of College Park near the sites where the bodies of

three boys had been found in this 1981 photo.

Young pallbearers bearing the body of Curtis

Walker into the new St. John Baptist Church in this 1981 photo. The case of Walker's mu re-

opened in 2005 but remains unsolved

The body of Nathaniel Cater, 27, is pulled from

the Chattahoochee River in this 1981 photo. Wayne Williams was convicted of the murder of

Cater and Jimmy Ray Payne, 21, in 1982. Williams never stood trial for murdering a child.

Conclusion

Although there was eyewitness evidence which linked Williams to one of the victims,

there was much more involved. With the numerous components such as forensic techniques,

the case was able to be solved. Unique fibers in Williams’ car and house and dog hair, tied

the victims together. This case was based on forensic evidence gathered from fibers found

on the victims. There were about 30 types of fiber linked to items found in Williams’ house,

cars or dog. After ten hours of analysis, the jury found Williams guilty for murdering Carter

and Payne. He was then sentenced to two successive terms of life imprisonment for killing at

least 22 children. After his conviction, the investigators found more than two dozen other

cases.

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Theories

Many people in the community do not believe that Williams could have killed that

many people because he was the son of two teachers. Dekalb Country Police ordered the

reopening of the murder cases of four boys killed in the Atlanta area in 1981, which

Williams was blamed for. Williams has denied all the charges and blamed the KKK. Charles

Sanders, a white supremacist who was involved in the KKK, was investigated of his

involvement in the Atlanta killings. He claimed he wasn’t responsible. Sanders passed the lie

detector tests and the case was closed again.

John Douglas, a former FBI agent, believed that Williams was responsible for some

of the murders, but not all. Some people think that the KKK leader was the one who

encouraged Williams to do the killings. Regardless of any conspiracies, the evidence proves

and links the fibers to the victims. One cannot doubt the link and the coincidence of the

pattern and how all the fibers were present on the victims. I am one hundred percent sure that

Wayne Williams committed all those murders because the evidence is undeniable. Not only

was it fibers, but it was the dog hair and things found in his house and car. Even if the KKK

leader encouraged Williams, he still committed the crime of killing innocent people. He

didn’t have to do it if he knew it was wrong. His punishment of life in prison is the least he

could have gotten. He is guilty, and there is no way he isn’t because there is so much

evidence one would have to disprove.

Works Cited

Aggrawal, Anil. "Anil Aggrawal's Internet Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology." Popular

Books on Forensic Science and Forensic Medicine: Anil Aggrawal's Internet Journal of

Forensic Medicine, Vol. 6, No. 2, July. N.p., July 2005. Web. 09 Dec. 2013. Wayne

Williams Case (1979-1981) Fibres under comparison Microscope Fibres under

comparison Microscope. [This figure appears on page 106] Serial killer Wayne Williams

is believed to have murdered 30 young black males during a two-year period. The

strangled bodies of 12 young black males were discovered. Another 18 young men were

reported missing. After newspaper reports stated that police had found fibers on the

victims' bodies, the killer had been stripping his victims and throwing their bodies into

rivers. This at¬tempt to conceal evidence led to his arrest. Aware of his pattern of

dropping bodies into rivers, police established surveillance crews at bridges. On May 22,

1981, police heard a splash in the Chattahoochee River. They stopped a car driven by

23-year-old photographer Wayne Williams but could find no reason to detain him. Two

days later, Nathaniel Carter, the 12th known victim, was found a mile downstream.

Police now had just cause to obtain a warrant to search Williams's car and apartment.

Forensic scientists working with Du Pont chemists had determined that the fibers found

on the victims were made by the Wellman Corporation and were used in carpeting

manufactured for one year by the West Point Pepperell Corporation. The carpets had

been sold for two years in 10 southeastern states. Based on sales, it was calculated that

the probability of finding such a carpet in an Atlanta apartment was 1 in 7,792. Fibers

found on another victim were con¬sistent with those from Williams's 1970 Chevy

station wagon. On the basis of Gen¬eral Motors manufacturing figures and the number

of vehicles of that model in the Atlanta area, police determined that the probability of

finding matching fibers on a victim was 1 in 3,828. There were also fibers from other

carpets and hairs from Williams's head, from his dog, and fibers from victims on a glove;

however, the crucial evidence was the probability of finding fibers from both the carpets

in the accused murderer's bedroom and from the carpeting in his car on victims. Using

many charts and photographs, prosecutors pointed out that the probability of finding

victims with both the bedroom and car fibers was 1 in 7,792 times 3,828 or 1 in

29,827,776. With such odds against him, Wayne Williams was convicted of murder and

sentenced to life in prison. The John Serratore Case In June 1999, a New South Wales

Supreme Court jury in Sydney, Australia, found John Serratore, 27, guilty of strangling

Frances Tizzone, a 21-year-old student, four years earlier. The two had planned to

become engaged before Tizzone broke it off. The verdict was based to a large extent on

fibers that were found on the dead woman's shoes. Forensic scientists maintained that

these fibers were consistent with fibers from the carpet in Serratore's car. Furthermore,

they stated that the fibers would not have remained on her footwear had she taken

more than a few steps. Hence the murder must have occurred while she was either in or

very near Serratore's automobile. While the evidence could not establish that Serratore

was the murderer, it did show that he was at least an accomplice and led to a conviction

and a sentence of 20 years in prison The authors describe a number of exotic poisons

and famous murders committed with them.

Blanco, Juan Ignacio. "Wayne Williams | Murderpedia, the Encyclopedia of Murderers." Wayne

Williams | Murderpedia, the Encyclopedia of Murderers. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Dec. 2013.

Murderpedia Juan Ignacio Blanco home last updates MALE murderers by country by

name A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z FEMALE murderers by country

by name A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Wayne Bertram WILLIAMS

The Atlanta Child Murders Classification: Serial killer? Characteristics: The case remains,

in many minds, an unsolved mystery Number of victims: 2 - 24 + Date of murders: 1979 -

1981 Date of arrest: June 21, 1981 Date of birth: May 27, 1958 Victims profile: Nathaniel

Cater, 28 / Jimmy Ray Payne, 21 / Police attributed these deaths to Williams (closed

cases): Alfred Evans, 13 / Yusef Bell, 9 / Eric Middlebrooks, 14 / Christopher Richardson,

12 / Aaron Wyche, 10 / Anthony Carter, 9 / Earl Terrell, 11 / Clifford Jones, 13 / Charles

Stephens, 12 / Aaron Jackson, 9 / Patrick Rogers, 16 / Lubie Geter, 14 / Terry Pue, 15 /

Patrick Baltazar, 11 / Curtis Walker, 13 / Jo Jo Bell, 15 / Timothy Hill, 13 / Eddie Duncan,

21 / Larry Rogers, 20 / Michael McIntosh, 23 / John Porter, 28 / William Barrett, 17

Method of murder: Strangulation - Suffocation Location: Atlanta, Fulton County,

Georgia, USA Status: Sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment on

February 27, 1982 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- photo

gallery 1 photo gallery 2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The FBI's Wayne Williams files On November 5, 1980, United States Attorney General

Benjamin R. Civiletti directed the FBI to participate in the investigation of several

missing and murdered children in Atlanta, Georgia. In addition to working an

independent investigation, the FBI collaborated with the local law enforcement Task

Force to provide additional manpower, guidance and technical assistance. Ultimately,

on February 27, 1982, Wayne Bertram Williams was found guilty on two counts of

murder in the Fulton County Superior Court, Atlanta, Georgia. He was sentenced to two

consecutive life terms. Atlanta Child Murders --------------------------------------------------------

------------------------ Wayne Bertram Williams (born May 27, 1958) was identified as the

key suspect in the Atlanta Child Murders that occurred between 1979 and 1981. In

January 1982, he was found guilty of the murder of two adult men. After his conviction,

the Atlanta police declared an additional 23 of the 29 child murders solved. Early life

Williams was born and raised in Atlanta's Dixie Hills neighborhood, from which many of

the Atlanta Child Murderer's victims would later disappear. An aspiring DJ, he ran an

amateur radio station from his parents' house, and was well-known in the area for

scouting local musicians, particularly teenagers. He also had a reputation in his

community as a liar who invented impressive stories about himself, the details of which

were too outlandish to be true. He was rumoured to be gay, but this has never been

proven. His only encounter with the law prior to becoming a murder suspect was in

1976, when he was arrested (but never convicted) for impersonating a police officer.

Manning, Jason. 40. The Atlanta Murders. 40. The Atlanta Murders. The Eighties Club, 2000.

Web. 09 Dec. 2013.

http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Wayne_Williams.html The

Eighties Club The Politics and Pop Culture of the 1980s Table of Contents Material

Things 40. The Atlanta Murders Copyright 2000 Jason Manning All Rights Reserved

Wayne Williams It began in the long hot summer of 1979 -- July 21, to be exact -- when

14-year-old Edward Smith left home (a Cape Street housing project in south Atlanta) to

visit a skating rink. A few days later, Edward's friend, Alfred Evans, 14, went to see a

movie at a downtown cinema. Neither boy came home. Both were found on July 28 in a

patch of woods near Niskey Lake Road; Edward had been shot with a .22 caliber pistol

while Alfred had been asphyxiated. Initially, the police thought the deaths were drug-

related. In early September, Milton Harvey, 14, disappeared from a middle-class

neighborhood in northwest Atlanta. His remains were found two months later in a

garbage dump. The body of Yusef Bell, 9, was found in a deserted elementary school on

November 8. While the authorities didn't think the four murders were connected,

others -- including Yusef's mother Camille -- disagreed. They pressured the city, and

Mayor Maynard Jackson promised a full investigation. The killings stopped -- until March

1980. When Willie Mae Mathis sent her 10-year-old son Jefferey to the store to buy her

some cigarettes it was the last time she saw her boy alive. A week later, Eric

Middlebrooks, 14, disappeared, only to be found the next day, bludgeoned to death.

The list of victims quickly grew during the "Summer of Death" -- Aaron Wyche, 10,

whose body was found beneath a highway bridge; Anthony Carter, 9, found stabbed to

death a mile from his home; CliffordJones, 13, discovered in a dumpster, strangled; Earl

Terrell, 11, apparently abducted on July 30 and transported across the state line. This

brought the FBI into the case. Meanwhile, Camille Bell joined forces with the Reverend

Earl Carroll and the mothers of two other victims to found the Committee to Stop

Children's Murders. Civic leaders complained that the city, headed by blacks, was not

doing enough to stop the killings. (MaynardJackson was the first black mayor of a major

American city, and Public Safety Commissioner Lee Brown was one of the highest

ranking black law enforcement officials in the country.) A special task force was

organized, but investigators had little to go on. (The FBI set up its own task force in

Atlanta.) Complicating matters was the absence of any pattern to the slayings, apart

from the fact that all the victims were black children between the ages of nine and

fourteen. That alone was enough to lead some to suggest that the killings were being

committed by the Ku Klux Klan. Jesse Jackson claimed that the murders were part of a

nationwide racial conspiracy. But it seemed unlikely that one or more perpetrators

could go undetected in the neighborhoods where the abductions took place. As the

murders continued, some who were familiar with the details of the crimes thought that

they were the work of more than one killer. By early 1981, twenty black children had

been slain in twenty months. The city seemed powerless to protect its citizens, and the

black community responded with safety education programs as well as neighborhood

patrols. Eleven members of New York's red-bereted Guardian Angels arrived in Atlanta

to participate. There were even armed vigilante groups; one, founded by activist

Chimurenga Jenga, carried firearms as they patrolled the Techwood Homes project --

until, that is, the police arrested Jenga and four others. Volunteer search parties

combed remote areas looking for missing children. The task force numbered forty

investigators by April 1981. They worked out of a headquarters housed in a converted

West Peachtree Street automobile showroom.

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Williams a fall guy Imprisoned former DeKalb sheriff thinks old friend has hidden reason

for reopening cases. By BILL TORPY The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Mr. Sidney

DorseyREIDSVILLE — Sidney Dorsey looks good these days. The former DeKalb County

sheriff is trim and taut, thanks to hundreds of push-ups and sit-ups each day in his

isolation cell. He has retired his toupee for a shaved head; his mustache is salt and

pepper. When he was on the outside, Sid Dorsey was a dapper and cocksure man on the

make, a retired Atlanta homicide cop who in 1996 was elected DeKalb’s first black

sheriff. He had a beautiful wife, controlled 700 employees and a $40 million budget and

was setting himself up as a political kingmaker. But inside Georgia State Prison at

Reidsville, 210 miles southeast of Atlanta, prisoner 1148460 is confined to his cell most

of the day. Thirty-two years in law enforcement would make him a sitting duck in the

general population. The 65-year-old Dorsey, who was convicted in 2002 and sentenced

to life for ordering the murder of Derwin Brown, the man who defeated him for sheriff,

gets few letters and even fewer visitors. Even when he gets visitors — such as a - See

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TheoriesHaunted Hotspots Wayne Williams The curious and controversial string of

deaths that sparked a two-year reign of terror in Atlanta, Georgia, has been labeled

“child murders,” even though a suspect – ultimately blamed for the 23 of 30 “official”

homicides – was finally convicted only in the deaths of two adult ex-convicts. Today,

about two decades after that suspect’s arrest, 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, carelessly concealed in roadside undergrowth. One victim, shot with a .22-

caliber weapon, was identified as 14-year-old Edward Smith, 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 African-American. On September 4, Milton Harvey, age 14, vanished during a

neighborhood bike ride. His body was recovered three weeks later, but the cause of

death remains officially “unknown.” Yusef Bell, a nine-year-old, was last seen alive when

his mother sent him to the store on October 21. Found dead in an abandoned school

November 8, he had been manually strangled by a powerful assailant. Angel Lenair, age

12, was the first recognized victim of 1980. Reported missing on March 4, she was found

six days later, tied to a tree with her hands bound behind her. The first female victim,

she had been sexually abused and strangled; someone else’s panties were extracted

from her throat. On March 11, Jeffrey Mathis vanished on an errand to the store. Eleven

months would pass before recovery of his skeletal remains, advanced decomposition

ruling out a declaration on the cause of death. On May 18, 14-year-old Eric

Middlebrooks left home after receiving a telephone call from persons unknown. Found

the next day, his death was blamed on head injuries, inflicted with a blunt instrument.

The terror escalated that summer. On June 9, Christopher Richardson, 12, vanished en

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Clark Wesley Clark is online now Guest Join Date: Aug 2003 What evidence is there that

Wayne Williams didn't commit the Atlanta child murders -----------------------------------------

--------------------------------------- I have heard there is controversy about his guilt. To my

understanding he became a suspect after police pulled him over after they suspected

him of dumping a body off a bridge (a body was found downstream from where they

suspected Williams of dumping a body a few days later). Several bodies that were found

had fibers that matched the carpet fibers in his parents home, where he was living. DNA

testing in the last few years found hairs on the bodies of some victims that matches the

hairs of his pet dog. What is the argument against his guilt? Of the 20+ murders, I think

he was only tied to a few via forensic evidence. So maybe there were multiple killers, I

don't know. At the very least it appears he killed some of the people he is accused of

killing. Reply With Quote Wesley Clark View Public Profile Find all posts by Wesley Clark

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Join Date: Nov 2000 Well, there probably were multiple killers - they just weren't acting

in concert. It's my understanding that a number of the murders were just the expected

result of children in a crime-infested, unemployment-ridden, drug-using, police-

indifferent inner city enclave. Kids were being killed all the time - Williams just added

enough to the tally that it couldn't be as easily ignored. Reply With Quote Bryan Ekers

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09-04-2012, 02:45 AM Nametag Nametag is online now Atheopoiesist Charter Member

Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: California Posts: 7,621 There's no evidence, really. There

are some records of KKK leaders praising the killings, but the main thrust of the

argument is a blend of "rush to judgment," "he was framed," "white racist cop

conspiracy," and "I just know that sweet boy didn't do it." When DeKalb county police

chief Louis Graham reopened four of the cases, nothing came up. When the dog hairs

were tested, they were only able to test mitochondrial DNA, which matched his dog, but

which is not as individual as nuclear DNA. Reply With Quote Nametag View Public

Profile Find all posts by Nametag #4 Old 09-04-2012, 06:35 AM ElvisL1ves ElvisL1ves is

offline Charter Member Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: New England Posts: 28,873 When

Williams was arrested, the murders stopped. Reply With Quote ElvisL1ves View Public

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Clark is online now Guest Join Date: Aug 2003 Quote: Originally Posted by ElvisL1ves

View Post When Williams was arrested, the murders stopped. So did the son of sam

killings and those were probably done by multiple killers. Reply With Quote Wesley

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Yorikke Yorikke is offline Guest Join Date: Jan 2003 Quote: Originally Posted by Wesley

Clark View Post So did the son of sam killings and those were probably done by multiple

killers. Can you expand on this? Joe Reply With Quote Yorikke View Public Profile Find all

posts by Yorikke #7 Old 09-04-2012, 04:08 PM TriPolar TriPolar is offline Member Join

Date: Oct 2007 Location: rhode island Posts: 21,602 What little I recall from a couple of

analyses, Wayne Williams is unlikely to have commited many of the murders. There

were plenty of cases closed just by wrapping them up in the same package. What I don't

recall is how well they had him tied to at least one murder. I recall they had him dead to

rights on the last one though. Also, children didn't stop disappearing any dying after he

was caught, anybody have the statistics on that? Reply With Quote TriPolar View Public

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Quote: Originally Posted by Wesley Clark View Post What is the argument against his

guilt? Of the 20+ murders, I think he was only tied to a few via forensic evidence.