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Lionel Williams became the prime suspect after his wife told authorities that he came home covered in blood the night of the murder. Williams was arrested, and in 1979 he was sentenced to 50 years behind bars for the murder of Mineo.
Lionel Williams offs Sal Mineo and ventriloquizes him from the grave. The vicious cocksucker was shameless. He begs forgiveness and enlists Sal as his post-mortem pimp.
LOS ANGELES, March 15 (AP) — A pizza deliveryman, Lionel Williams, was sentenced today to at least 50 years in prison for killing Sal Mineo, the actor, and committing 10 robberies.
Two weeks after Sal Mineo's murder, when the Los Angeles Police arrested a 19-year-old named Lionel Ray Williams on an unrelated robbery charge, he told investigators he'd heard Sal Mineo had been murdered during a drug deal gone wrong, according to Michael Gregg Michaud's 2010 book " Sal Mineo: A Biography."
"Unseen Innocence," directed by Letitia McIntosh and narrated by actor Omar Gooding, delves into the profound story of Lionel "Ray Ray" Williams' life hanging in the balance when justice...
Lionel Ray Williams, a young pizza delivery man with a long criminal record, was convicted and sentenced in March 1979 to 57 years in prison for killing Mineo and also for committing ten robberies. Although considerable confusion existed as to what witnesses had seen in the dark the night Mineo was murdered, Williams claimed to have had no idea ...
“Unseen Innocence” is a documentary seeking to shed light on the tragic plight of Lionel “Ray Ray” Williams, a Black man who served time for the 1976 murder of actor Sal Mineo.
According to a 2018 Hollywood Reporter article, the woman’s husband, Lionel Ray Williams, a young pizza delivery man with a criminal record, had come home the night of the stabbing with a bloody shirt and told her he’d “just stabbed a dude” in Hollywood.
Theresa Williams went to the police and recounted how her husband, Lionel Raymond Williams, had come home with blood on his shirt on the night of Mineo's stabbing death in February 1976. She claimed that her husband confessed to her that he had stabbed someone.
Mineo’s murderer, pizza deliveryman Lionel Ray Williams, was convicted of the crime and sentenced to 57 years in prison. Williams had committed at least 10 other robberies and claimed to not have known it was Sal Mineo he was robbing/murdering.