Williams, Wayne Bertram
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Wayne Williams (born May 27, 1958) was identified as the key suspect in the Atlanta Child Murders that occurred between 1979 and 1981, and in January 1982, he was found guilty of the murder of two adult men. After his conviction, the Atlanta police declared an additional 22 of the 29 child murders solved.
Williams' conviction was controversial and has been disputed by some. The case was built on a combination of direct and circumstantial evidence. The case is best known for its fiber evidence. Prosecutors were able to match 19 different sources of fibers from William's environment: his bedspread, bathroom, gloves, clothes, carpets, dog and an unusual carpet tri-lobal carpet fiber to a number of his murder victims. There was also eyewitness testimony placing Williams with different murder victims, blood stains from victims matching blood in William's car, William's homosexual attraction toward young black boys, and the fact that Williams was spotted by a police stakeout team on a bridge directly above a spot where a loud splash was heard in the Chattahoochee River. Two days later the body of one of the victims, Nathanial Cater, was found downstream. A jury listened to two months of testimony and took less than 10 hours to find Williams guilty.
On May 6, 2005, DeKalb County Police Chief Louis Graham ordered the reopening of the murder cases of four boys killed in DeKalb county between February and May 1981 that were attributed to Williams. Chief Graham believes that Williams may be innocent of all of the murders. However, the authorities in neighboring Fulton County, Georgia, where the majority of the murders occurred, have not moved to reopen the cases under their jurisdiction. Williams has always vehemently denied the charges.