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Jul 17, 2021 · Wayne Williams, considered a prime suspect in the murder of dozens of children, was convicted in 1982 of the murder of Cater and Jimmy Ray Payne, both adults whose bodies were discovered in the...
Jun 9, 2010 · Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- Almost 30 years ago, when Wayne Williams went on trial in two deaths that became known as the Atlanta child murders, DNA testing was not yet a staple of courtroom...
Oct 19, 2021 · Between the years 1979 and 1981, at least 28 Black children and young adults were abducted and killed in Atlanta. The string of killings, called the Atlanta Child Murders in the media, only led to the arrest of one suspect: Wayne Williams.
Dec 13, 2022 · Family of victims demand DNA testing be released in Atlanta Child Murders case. Facts from the case and who is responsible for the deaths of over two dozen children are still widely debated, over...
Dec 13, 2022 · Wayne Williams was charged and found guilty of two of the murders; he is serving two life sentences. Williams was convicted mainly on the existence of fibers found on two of the victims that matched those found in his vehicle. Police also found carpet fibers and dog hair evidence from Williams’ home also on many of the victims.
Oct 20, 2021 · This week the Atlanta Police Department hand-delivered more than 40-year-old evidence from the Atlanta child murders cases to a private lab in Utah specializing in analyzing deteriorated DNA. That technology for DNA testing was not available in 1982—when a jury found 23-year-old Wayne Williams guilty of two of the killings.
DNA testing was performed in 2010 on scalp hairs found on the body of 11-year-old victim Patrick Baltazar. While the results were not firmly conclusive, the DNA sequence found appears in only 29 of 1,148 African-American hair samples in the FBI's database, including that of Williams. [34]
May 30, 2023 · Two victims were girls, six were adult men, and 21 were boys. All of them were Black, nearly all were from low-income families, and each was beaten and strangled. Wayne Williams, a freelance photographer, has served 41 years after being convicted of murdering two of the adult victims.
Oct 20, 2021 · Sorenson Forensics in Salt Lake City is the DNA lab helping Atlanta Police confirm if Wayne Williams is the person who killed more than two dozen children.
Apr 2, 2019 · Hart said blood from Williams’ car yielded no DNA and human hair found on one victim was not definitively linked or excluded from Williams.
