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A 4 page overview of the facts surrounding this infamous 1982 trial. This paper addresses the question of whether the Wayne Williams case was solved by luck or by detailed detective work and evidence development. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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With the conviction of Wayne Williams in 1982 Atlanta took
a hesitant sigh of relief. Everyone hoped that this meant the end of a string of killings that had plagued the city and the surrounding area between 1979 and
1981. Almost everyone, however, also had reservations whether Williams was indeed responsible for all the killings with which he had been blamed. In reality the evidence in the
cases was minimal, so minimal in fact that Williams was only tried and convicted for two of the twenty-nine murders and disappearances for which some contended he was responsible (Weber,
2006). He was, in fact, only ever charged with those two murders. The question of whether the Wayne Williams case was solved by luck or by detailed detective
work and evidence development remains. An even more pressing question, in seems given the questionable circumstances in this case, is whether the Atlanta Child killings have been solved at
all! The two killings that Williams was ultimately convicted of were those of twenty-one year old Jimmy Ray Payne and twenty-seven year old
Nathaniel Cater (Breed, 2005). Williams had been apprehended in the cases largely as a matter of luck. The police had staked out an area where some of the
bodies in the Atlanta murders had been dumped. Police officers noted Williams car driving over the bridge and reported hearing a splash as the car drove over. Banks
(2006), however, contends that these same policemen later admitted that they had in fact heard no splash. Banks and others contend that Williams apprehension was simply the result of
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