In October 2022, WXIA-TV 11Alive.com reported that DNA evidence gathered from Williams and from the crime scene in the Atlanta children’s murder was retested to finally once and for all prove or disprove Williams’ link to the crime. As of that report, no results of those DNA tests were available. At that time, Joseph Drolet a former prosecutor who tried Williams for the young adult murders for which he was convicted said in his view, Williams is guilty. “Most people didn’t sit through a 9-week trial. They haven’t seen all of the evidence, they don’t understand the fiber evidence and the strength of it,” Drolet said. As of 11Alive.com’s report, defense Attorney Janis Mann had only just taken up the Williams case.
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Via 11Alive.com, Mann said in 1982, her client received trial by media “and by social and political pressure,” not by evidence, she said, which she called a travesty. Mann went on, “[Williams’] case is a perfect example of what can and does go wrong in the court system when it is driven not by scientific evidence, and not by facts, but by public perception and misunderstanding. The case against Williams was bolstered in 2019 when Derwin Davis who was 14 when the Atlanta Children’s Murders took place came forward. Davis claimed as a teenager, he escaped Williams who had allegedly tried to abuse him, based on further reporting from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
