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The gun jammed upon firing, however, and Williams pulled a 9mm Luger pistol from his desk and shot Hansford in the head, chest and back, [4] in what he claimed was self-defense. [5] [6] Prosecutors claimed Williams then proceeded to stage the crime scene to make it appear as if Hansford had actually fired at him. [6]
Williams was arrested on May 2, 1981, for the alleged murder of 21-year-old Danny Hansford, with whom he had been having a homosexual relationship, [2] at Mercer House. [8] At his arraignment his bond was set at $25,000, which he posted.
The house was the scene of the 1981 killing of Danny Hansford by the home's owner Jim Williams, a story that is retold in the 1994 John Berendt book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. The house is also featured in the movie adaptation of the book, released three years later.
A defrocked priest slated to be arrested for the 1972 murder of a Massachusetts altar boy died before he could be taken into custody and tried for the violent crime.
The prosecution in the Delphi, Indiana, double murder trial showed the jury more than 40 crime scene photos, some of them graphic, on the third day of the proceedings. The photos, which caused ...
Richard Allen’s defence attorneys have quit the high-profile Delphi murders case amid a scandal over the leak of graphic crime scene photos.. Graphic photos of the scene where teenage best ...
The book, Berendt's first, was published on January 10, 1994, [1] and follows the story of Jim Williams, an antiques dealer on trial for the killing of Danny Hansford. Subtitled A Savannah Story , with an initial printing of 25,000 copies, [ 2 ] the book became a New York Times Best-Seller for 216 weeks following its debut and remains one of ...
Days after the murder, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune interviewed Greg’s co-workers at the South Florida Sod Farm. They remembered the couple fondly. “He was an all-American good ol’ boy.