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Did GA Parole Board Deny William’s Release Base on Atlanta Unsolved Missing and Murdered Children Cases?
Wayne Williams never stood trial for the murder of 20 Black adolescence who went missing and murdered in Atlanta, Georgia, between 1979 and 1981. No person has ever been tried for the most massive serial killings to occur in Atlanta in history. The wheels of justice in 1982, based on the personal belief of the prosecutor, made sure the State of Georgia would never have to prove their prime suspect was guilty of the murder of these Black children.
Nevertheless, one wonders if the Georgia Pardon and Parole Board determined in its collective mind that Williams was guilty of these unsolved murders when deciding in November 2019 to deny parole to Williams.
Williams entered prison when he was 24 years of age, proclaiming from the witness stand under oath that he “did not kill anyone.”
A day after Williams’s conviction for the murder of two adult Black males in 1982, the Fulton County District Attorney, Lewis Slaton, announced that his office suspected Williams in the 20 missing and murdered Black children cases. They were closing the file on those murders. How callous that decision seemed at the time. Can anyone imagine a prosecutorial office anywhere in the country, closing the data on the serial killing of 20 white…
