Serial Killer Wayne Williams Swears He's Innocent 40 Years Later—And Police Are Reopening The Case

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  1. Space_Time

    Space_Time Well-Known Member

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    Do you think he's innocent? If so then who did it? Will this result in another exoneration?

     
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    Over the years I've heard several times that the crimes he was accused of never stopped in that area. Wouldn't surprise me since black men are so de-valued because of this society's prejudices. For example, we saw the infamous case of the Minneapolis white girl who was murdered by a cop - her family got $20 million in compensation for her loss. By contrast, a black family was awarded only $200K when a cop murdered their son. In this highly racist society black men are treated like absolute garbage unless they have a political agenda that squares with the views of the far right. Then they are treated like royalty.

    We will never know the full truth about Williams. It could well be that, indeed, he had been a fall guy just like James Earl Ray or Lee Harvey Oswald. Sad, indeed.
     
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    Wayne Williams' involvement is problematic.

    Similar killings have continued in the area.
     
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    There's a good podcast about the Atlanta child murders.

    https://atlantamonster.com/

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    A big reason why Wayne Williams got such a high body count, and got away with it for as long as he did, was because the black community in Atlanta became obsessed with the idea that the killer was a white KKK member, or a white cop.

    The police dismissed that theory about immediately, because it would basically have been impossible for a white perpetrator to operate in the heavily-segregated black neighborhoods where the murders were happening. Even the white cops had a hard time going into the neighborhoods to investigate the case, because the black community became outright hostile towards them, and they refused to work with law enforcement, because they were convinced that the police were helping the white KKK murderer, and covering for him.

    Wayne Williams was a laughably, comically-obvious suspect(research him, and you'll see what I mean) but the black community never identified him to the police, because, obviously, he wasn't a white KKK, cop guy.

    There was no outcry or doubt about Wayne Williams' guilt back in the day after he was caught, and stood trial. He was just too obviously the culprit to earn much public sympathy. He was a serious creepo, and his whole lifestyle and "career" revolved around stalking young boys.

    But that was then, and this is now, and, of course, the podcast veered off into SJW conspritardland towards the end, at which time, I pretty much bailed.

    The first part of the podcast was OUTRAGE Inc.- black activists and community organizers, playing the victim, and complaining about the police not caring, and not devoting time, effort and resources to solving the murders because the victims were black.

    The second part of the podcast was a very thorough look into just how much hard work, time, and resources the police put into solving the case, despite the resistance and outright hostility they got from the black community. The story of how they caught Wayne Williams is especially telling of just how committed and dedicated the cops were, and it showed the amazing amount of manhours they put in.

    The third part of the podcast was the modern-day "He dindu nuffin! Whitey framed him!"

    In the first part of the podcast, OUTRAGE Inc. gave their version of revisionist history in which nobody cared that black children were being murdered in Atlanta. Nobody in white Atlanta, nobody in white America, and not nobody in the entire white world. Whitey cared not a fig.

    Yeah, but I was a white kid in white America back then, and, even though I grew up 1000 miles away from Atlanta, I absolutely remember when children were being murdered in Atlanta, because it shocked the nation.

    Remember the iconic "It's 10PM, do you know where your children are?" That PSA picked up steam, and basically went nationwide after a radio station in Atlanta started running it in response to the child murders. The message they were sending was "Black people! Please, for cripe's sake, watch your freakin' kids!" because all the kids who were murdered got snatched off the streets, because they were like stray dogs wandering around after dark.

    I remember hearing the "It's 10 PM..." as a kid, and thinking "Ten o'clock? Damn, I have to be home when the streetlights come on. Who are these kids that are out wandering around at 10 at night?"
     
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    I well remember CBS news broadcasts from that era and recall blacks publicly demonstrating - they demanded that police take corrective action which makes me wonder why or how anyone can claim that they would not cooperate with cops. By the way, some of those murders still have not been solved as Williams could not be tied to them. Further, there were some black females who were also killed or went missing during that time. This is why it was believed that Klan or other terrorist activity had been involved rather than just one culprit.
     
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    Black communities are forever protesting and demanding that the police do more to solve the murder epidemics in their neighborhoods, and then, when the police show up during and after murders, the blacks throw things at the police and hurl insults at them.

    Listen to the podcast I linked above. You'll hear it right from the investigators and detectives who worked the case. They absolutely met with a wall of hostility and "snitches get stitches" attitudes during the investigation.

    It's not like there was any shortage of murders in the black neighborhoods of Atlanta in the 1970s. It's basically a 100% guarantee that not all of the murders could ever be tied to a single murderer, because there was plenty of murder going around. Far more murder was happening than a single perp could even handle due to the sheer workload that would've been required.

    And again, see what I just wrote above.

    Like I explained before, it's about ludicrous to think that a white perpetrator, or a group of white perpetrators, could've operated in the heavily-segregated and racially-volatile inner city Atlanta neighborhoods where the kids were being stalked, snatched, and killed, and not been detected. A white guy stalking black kids would've been torn to shreds within a matter of days.

    Every profiler in the world will tell you that it basically HAD TO BE a perpetrator who could "blend in" and "gain the trust" of the victims. A white perpetrator just couldn't have done it, and gone undetected. The thought of a team of KKK peckerwood crackers roaming the neighborhoods and snatching up black kids off the street- utterly preposterous.
     
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    Atlanta has a large black middle class. Many of its neighborhoods are middle and upper class area and are not ghetto as in Baltimore, LA, or NYC. People who I have known from that city have told me it is largely integrated. I accept their word as I have never been there. The fact that police claim they were criticized by blacks in those communities doesn't prove they were kept from investigating the crimes. That sounds more like a lame excuse to me.

    I logged on to the four minute long videos on that monster link and see no proof that police were impeded in any way from investigating the crime. As others have said they just found an easy fall guy like the FBI did with James Earl Ray. That could well be the truth.
     
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    I expect a smiling, arrogant, psycho, narcissist to say he is innocent. Especially when he has the in-built race card to prop up his attitude.
     

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