| December 15, 1832 |
James Bowman and in his family are killed near Salacoa, Cherokee Nation (now Georgia). The savage murders would be blamed on the Cherokee
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| May 2, 1953 |
Marion Ennis and Pete Bivins are shot and killed. Marion Stembridge, a local storeowner who committed the murders then turns the gun on himself. This incident, which occurred in Milledgeville, became the setting for the book Paris Trout
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| January 2, 1974 |
Carl Issacs goes on trial for the Alday family murders. He will be convicted and sentenced to death.
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Alday family murders
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| January 6, 1974 |
George Dungee goes on trial for the Alday family murders. He will be convicted and sentenced to death.
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Alday family murders
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| January 14, 1974 |
Wayne Coleman goes on trial for the Alday family murders. He will be convicted and sentenced to death.
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Alday family murders
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| October 2, 1977 |
Police arrest Jerome Livas in connection with an assualt and murder of a woman. He is connected to the two Wynnton murders.
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Wynnton Stocking Strangler |
| July 28, 1978 |
Two black children found murdered in southwest Atlanta begin a killing spree known as the Atlanta Child Murders
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| July 21, 1979 |
Edward Hope Smith is seen for the last time. Unknown at the time, he would become the first of what today is known as the Atlanta Child Murders
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Atlanta Child Murders |
| June 23, 1980 |
Aaron Wyche, 10, is added to the list of Atlanta Child Murders
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Atlanta Child Murders |
| August 14, 1980 |
Atlanta Police form a task force to investigate and analyze the evidence in the string of child murders that has occurred in the city
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Atlanta Child Murders |
| January 18, 1981 |
Pvt. Joseph Christopher is arrested at Fort Benning, Georgia and charged in the assault on a black enlisted man. His arrest resulted in Buffalo NY police solving a string of racist murders by Christopher, who was from the Buffalo area. |
| April 23, 1981 |
Atlanta Public Safety Commissioner Lee Brown clears the man identified by CORE Director Ray Innis as a suspect in the Atlanta Child Murders
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Atlanta Child Murders |
| June 21, 1981 |
Wayne William is arrested, charged with the murders of Nathaniel Cater and Jimmy Payne, the last of the Atlanta Child Murders
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Atlanta Child Murders |
| December 28, 1981 |
Trial begins for Wayne Williams, accused murderer who is charged with committing the Atlanta Child Murders
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Atlanta Child Murders |
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Atlanta Child Murders |
| January 19, 1982 |
Controversial fiber evidence introduced by Lewis Slayton in the Wayne Williams Atlanta Child Murders Trial is ruled admissible by Judge Clarence Cooper. Today this type of evidence is normally admitted. |
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Clarence Cooper |
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Atlanta Child Murders |
| January 25, 1982 |
Judge Clarence Cooper allows testimony linking Wayne Williams to murders other than the two he is charged with. |
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Atlanta Child Murders |
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Clarence Cooper |
| February 27, 1982 |
Wayne Williams found guilty in Atlanta Child murders
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Atlanta Child Murders |
| September 17, 1982 |
William Putnam is sentanced to die for the murders of David and Katie Hardin
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A killer pays the price |
| May 3, 1984 |
S. W. A. T. team members surround Carlton Gary, an escapee from the South Carolina prison system, at the Albany, Georgia, Holiday Inn. He was captured alive. While in Georgia's custody, he is linked to the murders of three of the Wynnton Stock Strangler's murders.
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Wynnton Stocking Strangler |
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Albany, Georgia |
| December 9, 1985 |
3 judge panel finds that pretrial publicity about the Alday family murders made a fair trial virtually impossible in Seminole County
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Alday family murders
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Seminole County, Georgia |
| June 3, 1986 |
Supreme Court orders a new trial in the Alday family murders
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Alday family murders
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| September 9, 1988 |
Murder One, a movie based on the Alday family murders starring Henry Thomas and James Wilder, shot almost entirely in Toronto, Canada, opens to mixed reviews
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Alday family murders
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| January 15, 1999 |
Judy Neelley, convicted of the brutal murders of two Georgia teenagers has her death sentance commuted by the Governor of Alabama
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Judy Neelley - A woman on death row
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| July 25, 2002 |
4 murders on the streets of Savannah make this one of the bloodiest days in recent history
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
| May 6, 2003 |
The man who orchestrated the Alday Family murders, Carl Isaacs, is put to death by lethal injection. At the time he had been on death row longer than any other person.
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Alday family murders
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| March 11, 2005 |
Judge Rowland Barnes and two others are killed in a shooting at the Fulton County Courthouse. Suspect Brian Nichols was being tried for rape in Barnes' courtroom. While fleeing, Nichols murders a federal agent. |
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Atlanta courthouse attack |
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Fulton County, Georgia |
