Richard Williams was a 24-year-old Black male whose death opened a grim chapter in Atlanta’s mid-1980s homicide history. On December 6, 1985, his body was found in a vacant building behind a house on Mayson Turner Road in northwest Atlanta. He had been shot in the back of the head and stabbed twice, a brutal combination that suggested more than a chance encounter and left detectives with a killing that, at first, stood on its own in a city already struggling under the weight of too many violen
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