Wayne Williams

I want to be direct: this is not an entry I write with any enthusiasm. Wayne Williams appears in this database because the Atlanta child murders remain one of the most painful and contested cases in American criminal history, not because there is anything to celebrate. He was convicted of killing two adult men and is widely suspected in many of the children's deaths, yet he was never tried for them and continues to maintain his innocence. What stays with me is the unfinished quality of it all: grieving families, lingering doubts, periodic calls to reexamine the evidence. I keep this page as a record and a caution, with the victims, not the notoriety, at its center.

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Name (English)

Wayne Williams

Name (Japanese)

ウェイン・ウィリアムズ

Reading

うぇいん・うぃりあむず

Born

May 27, 1958 (age 68)

Origin

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Occupation

serial killer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Dog

High school

Douglass High School

University

Georgia State University College of Law

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne%20Williams
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A0%E3%82%BA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3566872

Tags

• Georgia
• serial killer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.