Wayne Williams Georgia

Status: Incarcerated

Wayne Williams is a serial killer in the United States. They were active from 1979–1981 . They currently have 2 victims, though they are suspected of 23 . According to Wikipedia, Has maintained his innocence from the beginning and conviction is considered controversial .

This happened primarily in Georgia. He was sentenced to Sentenced to life imprisonment .

Because of the times these murders happen in some people believe he was a patsy and that white men did the actual killing, despite there being sound forensic evidence that he was involved.

His appeal includes:

Initially, we note that the state introduced evidence of ten other alleged murders to aid in establishing appellant's identity as the perpetrator of the murders of Payne and Cater. See Division 4, infra. Appellant's first enumeration of error concerns the state's use of circumstantial evidence based on expert comparisons of textile fibers found in the appellant's environment with fibers discovered on the twelve victims' bodies. The state's experts testified that they believed certain of the fibers which were associated with the victims matched others which had been recovered from appellant's home and cars he had used, and they opined that these matches established an inference that Williams had been in contact with the victims before *750 their deaths. This opinion was relied upon by the prosecution to support the further inference that Williams had killed the victims. Appellant now claims that the state failed to adequately demonstrate the scientific reliability of the fiber methodology which was employed by its experts, and that admission of the evidence based on these principles and techniques was therefore error.

Victims

His victims include: Edward Hope Smith (also known as "Teddy"), Alfred Evans, Milton Harvey, Yusuf Bell, Angel Lenair, Jeffery Mathis, Eric Middlebrooks, Christopher Richardson, LaTonya Wilson, Aaron Wyche, Anthony Carter and Earl Terrell, All five victims were African-American children, between the ages of 7 and 14, and most were killed via asphyxiation, Lubie Geter, Terry Pue, Eddie Duncan, Larry Rogers, John Porter,  Jimmy Ray Payne, William "Billy Star" Barrett and, Nathaniel Cater

You can write to Wayne Williams at:

Wayne Williams 408135

​Telfair State Prison
P.O. Box 549
Helena, GA 31037

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