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Some of the evidence presented against Williams include:

Alfred Coward, known as "Blackie" testified that Williams came to his home and went to James Garrett's home, where Williams was staying. Williams returned from inside the home with a sawed-off shotgun and another friend named Darryl. The group smoked some PCP and then picked up Tony Simms. The group of four made two unsuccessful robbery attempts, first at a restaurant and then at a liquor store. They then went to 7-Eleven committed the robbery where Williams killed Owens. Upon returning to Simm's home after the robbery, Williams explained to the group that he did not want to leave any witnesses. Williams also bragged that he picked up the shotgun shells, making it harder to obtain any evidence.

Later the morning Coward heard Williams tell his brother "You should have heard the way he sounded when I shot him." Williams then made a growling noise and laughed hysterically.
At the Brookhaven Motel where William's murdered the Yang family, the police recovered two shotgun shell casings. A firearms expert determined that one of the shells could have ONLY been fired from a weapon identified as having been purchased by Williams in 1974.
Samuel Coleman testified that he saw Williams on March 10 at the Showcase Bar. He last saw him at the bar at 2:30 am. He saw Williams the next day. Williams bragged to Coleman that he robbed and killed some people on Vermont Street. Williams told him he was going to use the money to buy PCP.
James Garrett testified that on March 13, 1979, Williams told them that some Chinese people had been killed on Vermont Street. Williams told them that he thought a professional killer must have done it. Williams then started making statements about the murder, with inside knowledge about the crimes, which had yet to be released to the public. He said that he heard the murder occurred at 5 am and that two men knocked down the door and had taken $600.00. Williams then said he heard the guy lying on the couch was "blown away", a woman at the register was shot twice and another woman was also shot. Williams then admitted to Garrett that it was he, who had done the murderers. Williams later talked about committing another motel robbery and Garrett tried to talk him about of it, stating there were too many people who stayed at the hotel. Williams then told Garrett, "No problem," he said, "I'll blow them away like I blew them away in the motel." Williams also expressed to Garrett the idea of killing Alfred Coward.
Esther Garrett testified that Williams had inside knowledge of the murders. She heard him say that the 'killers' were using the money to buy "juice" (PCP). She also stated that Williams later admitted he committed the murder with his brother-in-law.
George Oglesby was in the same cell block as Williams. In late April, 1979, Williams approached Oglesby with an escape plan complete with drawings. Williams also planned to kill a person on the bus who would testify against him with the assistance of two people on the outside. Williams talked about disarming a guard during the transfer from jail to court. The plan was later modified to blow up the bus to give him more time before authorities determined who had escaped. Williams also admitted to Oglesby that he robbed some people and shot a man, a woman and a child.
Williams spoke to several other inmates about escaping and even showed another inmate places in the jail that were vulnerable to escape. He even told a few inmates that he was attempting to get some hacksaw blades into the jail. It was within days of making these comments, that two women were arrested for attempting to smuggle the blades into the facility.