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world newspaper. on june 3rd, the fbi brought wayne in for a long night of questioning. wayne agreed to a lie detector test. he was as composed and calm as you can get. got 26 bodies out there in the woods and rivers and he s sitting there in total control. richard radcliff was the fbi polygraph examiner. i said i don t care what you threw in the bridge, i don t care what you threw in the water, you won t defy this test. he said what he would ask. did you kill him that night that you were on the bridge and did you throw nathaniel cater into the river? when i ran that test, i was like, wow, this is it. wayne williams flunked all three questions. i said, well, this test reflected that you did kill nathaniel cater and it was his body you threw off the bridge that night. the polygraph measures sweating, the heartbeat, blood pressure, all rise with tension.
you breathe a little faster. you have a hard time getting your breath. you sweat a little more. he did all those. wayne williams took the test three times. he failed each time. i said, some reaction like i ll be darned, you re the guy we ve been looking for for two years. it surprised him that he didn t beat that polygraph test. he was convinced he could beat a polygraph test. he sat there and studied it and said what s this question right here? i said that s pretty good. did you cause the death of nathaniel cater. then he said, what s this question? i said did you throw his body into the chattahoochee river. with the media waiting outside the fbi, the mayor s spokesman, angelo fuster was called in to handle the press. and in comes homer williams. fuster asked homer, a press photographer, why he was inside the building, trying to get a scoop on the suspect?
theater with wayne williams on the night of the bridge incident. henry has no doubt even today about what he saw. they were holding hands, you know, like male and female. well, if you re holding hands with one of my co-workers and both of you are males what am i supposed to do turn my head? the next time i saw him, he was in the courtroom. when wayne williams took the stand, he swore he never met nathaniel cater. on the evening henry said he saw them, wayne testified he was home, sick and asleep in bed. his mother and father, now deceased, backed him up. homer williams said he had the white station wagon until almost midnight. under cross-examination, in his third day on the stand, wayne williams blew up at prosecutor jack mallard. that morning, he was a complete different person. immediately he started attacking.
no. not once? no. it s incalculable the odds that they were not in contact with him sf in this environment. the fiber evidence is your biggest obstacle. that fiber evidence may have been manipulated in this case point blank and simple because they had a suspect which was wayne and that manipulation no doubt continued even after my trial up until this point. there were just too many fibers placed on too many bodies. mike dearham in blue seen here the night of the verdict was one of the jurors. what would the chances be of finding these same all of these fibers? the chances would be just astronomical. this witness, robert henry, did place williams with the very last victim, nathaniel cater. henry worked with cater. he said he saw him leave this