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Your father said you stopped to get rid of some trash. >> no, he -- my father never said that. i never said that and my father never said it. >> while father and son were inside the fbi, evidence technicians were combing the williams home. the fbis top fiber expert, harold dedman, led the search. in waynes bedroom he took clippings from a purple bedspread and from a yellow blanket. >> your blanket was located under wayne williams bed. >> on the floor, a green carpet. this is a blow-up of those c...

Inside the fbi, evidence technicians were combing the williams home. the fbis top fiber expert, harold dedman, led the search. in waynes bedroom he took clippings from a purple bedspread and from a yellow blanket. >> your blanket was located under wayne williams bed. >> on the floor, a green carpet. this is a blow-up of those carpet fibers. >> theyre the only company to produce a fiber like this. >> but larry peterson was still in the dark. >> i had no idea there was a bridge incident. >> he had...

>> no, he -- my father never said that. i never said that and my father never said it. >> while father and son were inside the fbi, evidence technicians were combing the williams home. the fbis top fiber expert, harold dedman, led the search. in waynes bedroom he took clippings from a purple bedspread and from a yellow blanket. >> your blanket was located under wayne williams bed. >> on the floor, a green carpet. this is a blow-up of those carpet fibers. >> theyre the only company to produce a f...

He said, yeah, he was driving over this bridge and stopped to throw some garbage and they rushed him and stopped him. at that point i said, homer, i dont think you need to talk to me anymore. >> we asked wayne williams about throwing garbage off the bridge. he denied his father ever said that. your father said you stopped to get rid of some trash. >> no, he -- my father never said that. i never said that and my father never said it. >> while father and son were inside the fbi, evidence technicia...

They detained him for littering is what he said. i said that doesnt -- he said at night. i said littering? he said, yeah, he was driving over this bridge and stopped to throw some garbage and they rushed him and stopped him. at that point i said, homer, i dont think you need to talk to me anymore. >> we asked wayne williams about throwing garbage off the bridge. he denied his father ever said that. your father said you stopped to get rid of some trash. >> no, he -- my father never said that. i n...

>> 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...

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. >>...