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.

Wayne Bertram Williams (born May 27, 1958) is an American convicted murderer and suspected serial killer who is serving life imprisonment for the 1981 killings of two men in Atlanta, Georgia. Although never tried for the additional murders, he is also believed to be responsible for at least twenty-four of the thirty Atlanta murders of 1979–1981, also known as the Atlanta Child Murders.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Dog

Origin

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Blood type

Private

Height

Private

Agency

Private

Occupation

serial killer

Elementary school

Private

Junior high

Private

High school

Douglass High School

University

Georgia State University College of Law

Spouse

Private

Children

Private

Parents

Private

Siblings

Private

Motto

Private

• 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

Tags

• Georgia
• serial killer

Last updated

2026-06-11

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.