Uploaded December 2020 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago
In 1979, young African-American children began disappearing in the city of Atlanta, Georgia. The killings continued for nearly two years as terror spread throughout the city; curfew was imposed and parents took their children out of schools and forbade them to play outside. Then in 1981, as Atlanta Police, acting on the advice of FBI criminal profilers, staked out the bridges over the Chattahoochee River, one of their officers at a bridge heard a splash. The police spotted a white Chevrolet station wagon drive across the bridge and stopped it to question its driver: Wayne Williams.
Please note that this program was made in 1993.
1) Williams remains in prison as of 2020. He continues to maintain his innocence.
2) On March 21, 2019, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields announced that officials would re-test evidence from the murders. Repeated DNA evidence tests over the years have failed to exclude Williams as a suspect.
3) In 1998, FBI criminal profiler John E. Douglas, who consulted on the original investigation, said that, while he believes that Williams committed many of the murders, he does not think that he committed them all. Douglas added that he believes that law enforcement authorities have some idea of who the other killers are, cryptically adding, "It isn't a single offender, and the truth isn't pleasant."
This is a TV recording, and is thus missing about 3 minutes of footage.
In 1979, young African-American children began disappearing in the city of Atlanta, Georgia. The killings continued for nearly two years as terror spread throughout the city; curfew was imposed and parents took their children out of schools and forbade them to play outside. Then in 1981, as Atlanta Police, acting on the advice of FBI criminal profilers, staked out the bridges over the Chattahoochee River, one of their officers at a bridge heard a splash. The police spotted a white Chevrolet station wagon drive across the bridge and stopped it to question its driver: Wayne Williams.
Please note that this program was made in 1993.
1) Williams remains in prison as of 2020. He continues to maintain his innocence.
2) On March 21, 2019, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields announced that officials would re-test evidence from the murders. Repeated DNA evidence tests over the years have failed to exclude Williams as a suspect.
3) In 1998, FBI criminal profiler John E. Douglas, who consulted on the original investigation, said that, while he believes that Williams committed many of the murders, he does not think that he committed them all. Douglas added that he believes that law enforcement authorities have some idea of who the other killers are, cryptically adding, "It isn't a single offender, and the truth isn't pleasant."
This is a TV recording, and is thus missing about 3 minutes of footage.
