Hair And Fiber Analysis: The Wayne Williams Case

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Hair and fiber analysis is one of the many methods in determining someone’s innocence or guilt during a criminal trial. Hair and fibers differentiate between the type they such as a human and animal. With the analysis of hairs and fibers, it can be determined whether or not someone was murdered or attacked by an animal. The Wayne Williams case was determined due to hair and fiber analysis. Many people argued that Wayne Williams did not commit the crimes he was accused of, which was murdering both children and adults in Atlanta, Georgia. It was said that evidence was circumstantial, which indeed it was. Today Wayne Williams resides in a state prison due to the crime that he has committed despite all arguments.

Harold Deadman, an FBI agent,