truTV.com: Haunted Crime Scenes: Mercer House

Millions of readers and movie fans know Williams as the slightly sinister character at the heart of John Berendt’s “nonfiction novel,” Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which starred Kevin Spacey when it was made into a film by Clint Eastwood. By that time, Williams himself was dead. The reason he gained such notoriety was because of the shooting that occurred on May 2, 1981 in Mercer House, which resulted in the death of a young hustler named Danny Hansford. . .read more.