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>> this is the first time wayne williams has talked on tv in at least a decade. why do you think you were convicted? >> fear. >> what do you mean? >> atlanta, at the time, was in a panic. they wanted any suspect that they could find. and lets just be honest. it had to be a black person, because if it had been a white suspect, atlanta probably would have gone up in flames. it came very close to that. >> do you think youll ever be free? >> no doubt its not a matter of if to me. its a m...

atlanta georgia. in all, more than two dozen victims. most of them strangled. by may, 1981, the police and f.b.i. were hiding in the brush beside and below theiver bridges. this was toe be the last niekt. almost the last hour. >> i heard the splash. >> reporter: bob campbell, a police recruit, jumped to his feet. >> i was really startled. it sounded like a body entering water. >> he looked up at the bridge. >> and i saw brake lights of a car. i saw red lights. the car started slowly mo...

this was to be the last night, almost the last hour. >> i heard the splash. >> bob campbell, a police recruit, jumped to his feet down beside the chattahoochee river. >> i was really startled. it sounded like a body entering the water. >> he looked up at the bridge. >> and i saw brake lights of a car coming. i saw red lights. the car started slowly moving away from me across the bridge. >> campbell radioed the other team members up above him. >> i asked, did a car stop on the bridge? b...

the best that i could describe was a ski rope type. the woven type and it was my guess about 24 inches long. >> no. >> williams denies there was any such cord. >> because if that rope had been in the station wagon that night, im sure they would have taken it. >> the fact that i didnt confiscate it didnt make it go away. >> the nylon cord would never be seen again. >> could have been the murder weapon as far as i know. >> fbi supervisors decided to let wayne williams go that night. >>...

were very happy youre with us this morning. its 5:00 in the east. breaking news in france. police have a home surrounded. they say an al qaeda suspect wanted for committing that jewish school massacre is inside. france also says two officers were wounded in a shootout there overnight. well take you live to that scene? just a few moments now. and a big night for mitt romney after a decisive 1 -point win, hes setting his sights on louisiana. romney has near ri half the delegates that...

if that sounds familiar, its because many call it the model for obama care. although romney himself said he would repeal that law and let each state find its solution. the supreme court is going to hear a case this month on whether the federal law is, in fact, constitutional. if it takes full effect as scheduled in 2014, it might get a sense of how the law might change things if you look at massachusetts. you could do a lot worse if you look at how things have gone there. in her mid 20...

scheduled in 2014, you might get a sense of how the law might change things if you look at massachusetts. you could do worse. see how things have gone there. take a look. in her mid-20s, jacqueline was working in her parents restaurant. like a lot of people her age, she didnt think she needed health insurance. it was too expensive anyway. >> it was almost $700 a month. i said im going to have to go without it. >> in 2006, governor mitt romney put his name on a health care law. faced wi...

Bring in this new sample and you start to actually compare it to do this matching. and again, looking for areas that are sort of known as junk dna or areas that are different. and youre looking for repeats in the dna sequence. the more repeats you see that match up with one of the relatives, the more likely it is going to be an actual match. more relatives, that increases the likelihood even further. >> and very briefly, there are unconfirmed reports, and i emphasize unconfirmed, that one of tho...

Do they need to run tests on all the samples simultaneously, or i assume they would have done that ahead of time and therefore just needed to compare the dna from bin laden to the samples they already had. >> thats exactly right. so essentially, if you have known samples from known siblings or known relatives of in this case the person, bin laden, you basically create reference samples. so you have all of those relatives or reference samples sort of lined up and then you bring in this new sample...

In quantico, virginia. the result? the lab said it found this dna sequence in only 29 out of more than 1,100 samples of african-american hairs in its database. less than 3%. most important, wayne williams dna had the same sequence. >> i think -- i dont think they said it was a match. they said they could not rule out whomever the hairs were from as being the possible donor. >> the fbis hal dedman, a dna expert, said this finding is as strong as it can get with this particular type of testing. >>...