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Apr 3, 2020 · A Complete Timeline Of Wayne Williams' Atlanta Child Murders, From 1979 To 2019. The 29-victim case will be explored in HBO's new docuseries Atlanta's Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children. From ...
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Feb 28, 1982 · Wayne Williams is escorted from the Fulton County Courthouse on Jan. 26, 1982. Between 1979 and 1981, 30 young African-Americans between ages 9 and 28 were either killed or declared missing.
Between 1979 and 1981, approximately 29 African-American children, teens, and young adults—mostly boys—were kidnapped and murdered. A majority of the killings shared common details. The FBI joined the multi-agency investigation in 1980. In our files, the major case is called ATKID, short for the Atlanta Child Murders. The investigation was closed following the conviction of Wayne Bertram ...
Aug 22, 2020 · Today, Wayne Williams is in his sixties and is serving two life sentences at Telfair State Prison in Georgia. The officers there have described him as a good inmate. In November of 2019, he was denied parole. He will now be eligible for parole again in November 2027. In March 2019, Keisha Lance Bottoms, the new mayor of the city, ordered for ...
May 30, 2023 · “I knew the boy they arrested,” Young said of Williams during an exclusive interview. “I had known [Williams] since he was 12 or 13.” Young said he met a young Wayne Williams during his run for Congress at the beginning of the 1970s, or less than a decade before the first murder.
Jun 5, 2024 · Jun 5, 2024 11:14 AM EDT. Wayne Williams was convicted of the murders of Nathaniel Cater and Jimmy Ray Payne in 1982, but he remained the prime suspect in dozens of unsolved Atlanta child murders. Wayne Williams: Etched in Memory. In 1979, when the missing kids first hit the public radar in Atlanta, Georgia, I had just become a police officer ...
Mar 21, 2019 · Wayne Williams poses along the fence line at Valdosta State Prison, Valdosta, Georgia, in 1999. John Bazemore/ap. Sammy Davis Jr., Frankie Sinatra and The Jacksons performed at benefit concerts to ...
