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...become a failed music promoter and freelance photographer, was, at 23, a convicted killer. Surrounded by four sheriffs deputies who have guarded him since the trial began last December, Williams stared silently as Judge Clarence Cooper sentenced him to two consecutive life sentences for the murders of Nathaniel Cater, 27, and Jimmy Ray Payne...
...Wayne Williams murder Nathaniel Cater and Jimmy Ray Payne? No one saw either crime, and there were no fingerprints. But there is plenty of circumstantial evidence in the extraordinary Atlanta case, including carpet fibers found on the victims and bloodstains in Williams' station wagon. So prosecutors are placing their faith in test tubes, microscopes and forensic specialists; in hour upon hour of testimony, experts have said that all the scientific evidence points to Williams. Last week the defense fought back. Kansas State University Professor Randall Bresee claimed that the prosecution's fiber analysis was too imprecise. In fact...
...evidence was mounting last week in the trial that began on Dec. 28, but Williams, 23, a freelance news photographer, would confess to nothing. He is charged with killing Nathaniel ("Silky") Cater, 27, and Jimmy Ray Payne, 21 , and is implicated as well in the deaths of ten more among the 29 blacks murdered in Atlanta during the two years preceding his arrest. Lacking any confession, not to mention a single eyewitness or a murder weapon, prosecutors had to argue their case on circumstantial grounds. Last week the prosecution rested, after attempting to lay out an intricate web of Witness...
Robert Henry, 37, a gardener, said that in May he had seen Williams leaving an Atlanta theater hand in hand with Nathaniel Cater. Two days later, Cater's body was found floating in the Chattahoochee River. The person who reports last seeing Payne alive also testified. A.B. Dean, 80, said he had observed Payne in Williams company. The Payne man's body was dragged from the Chattahoochee five days later...
Binder did note one fault in his client: "He could be in a little better physical shape." Williams, who is 5-ft. 7-in., 160 lbs. and appears pudgy, grinned at the remark. The point was pertinent: the prosecution suggested that Williams hoisted both of the victims, Nathaniel Cater, 27 (146 Ibs.), and Jimmy Ray Payne, 21 (138 Ibs.), over a 4-ft. wall on the James Jackson Parkway Bridge and threw their bodies into the Chattahoochee River. The defense insists that Williams was not strong enough to do this...