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Robert Williams

Case from Spring Brook, WI dated Jul 15, 1985

Victim Details

Robert L. Williams

Male

White / Caucasian

Spring Brook

WI

1985-07-15

38

Robert

Williams

09/14/2026

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Robert L. Williams, a 38-year-old White man from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, was killed on July 15, 1985, in the Spring Brook area of Dunn County. Williams worked for a computer company and had become acquainted with Alvin Taylor, a traveling nightclub singer, after the two met in 1984. What initially appeared to be a friendship eventually became part of a series of killings that investigators later attributed to Taylor.

According to accounts of the investigation, Taylor developed the delusion ...
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