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  1. Wayne Williams. Wayne Bertram Williams (born May 27, 1958) is an American convicted murderer and suspected serial killer who is serving life imprisonment for the 1981 killings of two men in Atlanta, Georgia. [1] Although never tried for the additional murders, he is also believed to be responsible for at least 24 of the 30 Atlanta murders of ...

  2. Oct 14, 2023 · The community dubbed the killing spree the Atlanta Child Murders. In 1981, a man named Wayne Williams was arrested for the murder of two young men in Atlanta. But many soon believed that his trail of death may have been far more gruesome and that he was the man behind the Atlanta Child Murders. Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images Wayne Williams ...

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  3. Feb 7, 2014 · Part 5: Wayne Williams and the Atlanta Child Murders. Evidence linked Wayne Williams, inset above over one of the files in his case, to 22 murders in Atlanta beginning in 1979. The FBI’s ...

  4. 30. The Atlanta murders of 1979–1981, sometimes called the Atlanta child murders, are a series of murders committed in Atlanta, Georgia, between July 1979 and May 1981. Over the two-year period, at least 28 children, adolescents, and adults were killed. Wayne Williams, an Atlanta native who was 23 years old at the time of the last murder, was ...

  5. Feb 1, 2018 · Plenty of others have lingering doubts about whether Williams, who has been called one of the world’s few African American serial killers, is really a serial killer at all. On August 7, 1979, the bodies of two African American boys, Edward Hope Smith, 14, and Alfred Evans, 13, were found in a vacant Atlanta lot.

  6. Mar 18, 2019 · On June 21, 1981, police arrested a 23-year-old Atlanta resident Wayne Williams for the murders of Nathaniel Cater, 27, and Jimmy Ray Payne, 21. The FBI also believed that Williams was responsible for the entire run of “child murders,” although he was never charged with any of those crimes.

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  8. Apr 3, 2020 · One of the most intriguing parts of Mindhunter's second season was the search for the serial killer responsible for the Atlanta Child Murders. 23-year-old Atlanta native Wayne Williams is widely ...

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