Michael Terry

Serial Killer

Michael Devern Terry: A Detailed Account of His Crimes

Early Life

Michael Devern Terry was born in 1960 in Tallassee, Alabama. Little is known about his personal life, but after dropping out of the 10th grade, Terry began committing small crimes, amassing convictions for burglary, robbery, simple battery, aggravated assault, and carrying an unlicensed firearm. In 1983, he moved to Atlanta, Georgia, first staying at a rooming house near Morris Brown College, before asking a co-worker to help him find another location. He then moved to a rooming house on 664 Kennesaw Avenue. Neighbors and acquaintances described him as a strange loner who did not mix and carried a gun at all times, even in his own home. Approximately a year before his murder spree, Terry was laid off from work but found another job at a tire recapping shop in Lithonia.

Modus Operandi

Terry targeted young, Black male "street hustlers" who frequented areas around the Georgia Baptist Hospital and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. He would wait for suitable targets to approach him, and after agreeing to their services, they would proceed to isolated areas to engage in sexual activities. Immediately after, Terry would either stab or shoot the victims to death. In five out of the six cases, the victims were found nude from the waist down.

Victims

• Richard Williams (24): Found in a vacant building behind a house at 867 Mayson Turner Road on December 6, 1985. He had been shot in the back of the head and stabbed twice.
• Curtis Lee Brown (21): Discovered in an isolated part of Dean Rusk Park at 433 Peeples Street on December 14, 1985. He had been shot twice, with one of those shots being in the back of the head.
• Alvin George (31): Found in an alleyway near Terry's house on Kennesaw Avenue on March 20, 1986. He had been stabbed multiple times in the neck.
• Jason B. McColley (18): Discovered in the same alleyway as George on April 6, 1986. He had been stabbed multiple times in the neck.
• George Willingham (30): Found in a field near a freeway leading to Stone Mountain on September 13, 1986. He had been shot three times in the back of the head and stabbed twice. Willingham was the only victim to have been mutilated to a degree.
• Daryl O. Williams (20): Discovered in an abandoned apartment building on 849 Harwell Street, not far from the Richard Williams (no relation) crime scene, on October 20, 1986. He had a single gunshot wound to the back of the head.

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Confirmed Victims: (6)

Richard Williams Age: (24), Date of Death: 1985-12-06

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