ALTHOUGH FULTON County’s district attorney has decided not to oppose Wayne Williams’ request to run DNA tests on forensic evidence that contributed to his 1982 murder conviction, the man believed to be Atlanta’s notorious child killer still has significant hurdles to overcome in his 25-year-old quest for a new trial.
Late Monday, Fulton County District Attorney Paul L. Howard Jr. formally responded to a November petition by Williams’ lawyers asking that they be allowed run comparative DNA tests on dozens of animal hairs and two human hairs linking Williams to the slayings of 11 black men and boys. When Williams was tried in 1982, comparative human DNA testing had never been used in a criminal case, and the technology for testing animal DNA was not yet in existence.
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