Won’t this be a nice big can of worms

Which, as I am wont to do, I’ll let speak for itself:

Saying he believes the man presumed
responsible for most of the 29 Atlanta-area murders of boys, young men
and two girls between 1979 and 1981 is innocent, a police chief plans
to reopen four murder cases.

“Quite frankly, I don’t think

Wayne Williams is responsible for anything,” DeKalb County Police Chief

Louis Graham said. “I don’t think he did anything. I made up my mind

with that 20 years ago, and I still feel that way.”

Graham has

formed a cold-case squad to look into four young men slain in DeKalb

County, east of downtown: Patrick Baltazar, 11; Curtis Walker, 13;

Joseph Bell, 15; and William Barrett, 17. They were all killed between

February and May 1981.

“At this point, there are just too many

open questions,” said Graham, who was a member of the multi-agency task

force that led to Williams’ arrest. “And all I’m trying to do is answer

those questions as best we can.”

For a good overview of the case, see what Crime Library has to say. I tend to agree with the conclusion reached by the author of the piece, that several killers were at work during the same time period, and that the manner in which Williams was convicted was messy to say the least.