Jimmy Ray Payne

In the spring of 1981, a sense of fear lingered over Atlanta as a series of disappearances and murders plagued the city. Twenty-one-year-old Jimmy Ray Payne, an African-American man recently released from a correctional institute, found himself tragically woven into this terrifying narrative. He was last seen on April 22, 1981, with plans to meet his girlfriend, but he never arrived. His family's concern grew into a grim reality when, just five days later, his body was discovered in the Chattaho ...

Williams v. State :: 1983 :: Supreme Court of Georgia Decisions

A MISSING BLACK IS FOUND DEAD IN ATLANTA RIVER