Wayne David Hays is a fictional character in the third season of the anthology crime drama television series True Detective on HBO. [2] [3] The character was created by series creator Nic Pizzolatto and is portrayed by Mahershala Ali. [4] [5] Hays was originally slated to be portrayed by a white actor while Ali was ready to play a supporting ...

Feb 25, 2019 · "Do you feel any kind of closure? I don’t," Roland West tells Wayne Hays halfway through the finale of True Detective Season Three. This comes right after West and Hays visit Junius Watts...

Feb 26, 2019 · True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto explains what really happened to Wayne Hays's wife Amelia in Season 3.

Wayne David Hays is a detective that works for the Arkansas State Police within the Major Crimes Division. In 1980, he begins investigating the disappearance of two children in rural Arkansas.

Feb 26, 2019 · Wayne can't be healed from his illness, but by the end of True Detective season 3, he is most certainly in a better place. Sat on his front porch, he's reconnected with both his former best friend and daughter and has a brighter future ahead.

In the final episodes, Wayne Hays, now an elderly man suffering from memory loss, finally confronts the truth surrounding the case that has haunted him for decades. It is revealed that the main suspect, Tom Purcell, is innocent and the true culprit is a man named Junius Watts, a powerful and corrupt figure within the community.

Detective Wayne Hays and his partner Roland West organize a search. Hays is a Vietnam veteran who worked as a tracker. The Purcells' parents, Tom and Lucy, do not have a happy marriage.

Jan 20, 2019 · May 20: Wayne Hays participates in Season 3 of a docuseries called True Criminal, about the Purcell case, run by investigative filmmaker Elisa Montgomery (Sarah Gadon). He wants to know “how...

Feb 25, 2019 · When Julie Purcell disappeared, when her brother Will was found dead in Devil’s Den, a wound opened up in the center of a small Arkansas town that proceeded to swallow the lives of Wayne and...

Aug 16, 2019 · Mahershala Ali gives not one, not two, but three riveting performances on season three of HBO's True Detective as Arkansas state police officer Wayne Hays. Set against an Ozarks backdrop,...