The killer Ford most wants to sit down with in season two is the notorious cult leader, who died in 2017 at 83. Douglas and Mark Olshaker wrote, 'I believe the forensic and behavioral evidence points conclusively to Wayne Williams as the killer of eleven young men in Atlanta.' Meaning, they thought there were quite a few murders pinned on him that he probably did not commit. In the book Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit, which inspired the series, John E. The re-investigation was dropped in 2006 not long after Graham resigned.Īfter the 2018 podcast Atlanta Monster took a deep dive into the case, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields announced in March 2019 that evidence would be re-tested in hopes that advances in technology since the murders can provide some definitive answers. Meanwhile, in 2005 the cases of five murdered boys were reopened because DeKalb County Police Chief Louis Graham, one of the original investigators on the murders, suspected they may not have been committed by Williams. The killings of four other adults have been attributed to him as well.

He's been in prison since 1981 after being convicted of the murders of Jimmy Ray Payne, 21, and Nathaniel Cater, 27, the only killings he's been charged with. The man who authorities have linked to 18 of the Atlanta child murders has insisted for the past 38 years that he's innocent-of any murder.

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