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Now, remember, youre the jury guilty, innocent or not proven. this time the verdicts yours. mary welcome was wayne williams defense attorney. >> good morning. good morning. how are you? >> this was her first murder trial. what was he like when you met him? >> a most unlikely killer. >> yeah? why? >> because he just didnt appear to be the kind of person that could strangle anyone or have the strength to. >> to her, wayne williams seemed gentle, child-like. >> one day i left him in jail. i said, w...

>> 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 ill be darned, youre the guy weve been looking for for two years. it surprised him that he didnt beat that polygraph test. he was convinced he could beat a polygraph test. he sat there and studied it and said whats this question right here? i said thats pretty good. did you cause the de...

79 ford and the trunk of the 79 ford. >> did you ever meet any of the young men who were victims? >> no, i did not. >> never met them once? >> no. >> not once? >> no. >> its incalculable the odds that they were not in contact with the fiber. >> 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. ...

He said he saw him leave this 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 youre 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 tes...

Quit following me because im saying at this point youre following me and youre on private property and if i were you id get the hell off it. >> finally, on fathers day evening, 1981, detectives arrive to arrest wayne williams for the murder of nathaniel cater. once he disappeared in the back of this police car, williams would never be free again. to this day. ahead, the trial and the blow-up on the witness stand. >> i was probably my own worst enemy. i could see almost the shock in the jurors ...

Vehicle and i didnt want to corrupt the -- my dads testimony in the eyes of the jury, so i lied about it and said i didnt have it on the stand. >> what makes this important is what time robert henry says he saw wayne and nathaniel cater together. >> it was about 9:15 to 9:30. it was on luckie and forsyth street in downtown atlanta. >> so at the trial you said that you were in bed until 10:00 p.m. you were so sick that your mother said she had to help lie your body out on the bed you were so sick...

But chet dettlinger, an investigator for the defense, said wayne told him long ago this was a lie. >> he told me he had the car if daddy didnt have the car. but wayne said, i had the vehicle and i didnt want to corrupt the -- my dads testimony in the eyes of the jury, so i lied about it and said i didnt have it on the stand. >> what makes this important is what time robert henry says he saw wayne and nathaniel cater together. >> it was about 9:15 to 9:30. it was on luckie and forsyth street in d...

What was he like when you met him? >> a most unlikely killer. >> yeah? why? >> because he just didnt appear to be the kind of person that could strangle anyone or have the strength to. >> to her, wayne williams seemed gentle, child-like. >> one day i left him in jail. i said, wayne, is there anything i can bring? would you like anything? he said, would you bring me some bubble gum. >> williams was charged with and tried for only two murders -- nathaniel cater and jimmy payne, both adults found i...

Weve been looking for for two years. it surprised him that he didnt beat that polygraph test. he was convinced he could beat a polygraph test. he sat there and studied it and said whats this question right here? i said thats pretty good. did you cause the death of nathaniel cater. then he said, whats this question? i said did you throw his body into the chattahoochee river. >> with the media waiting outside the fbi, the mayors spokesman, angelo fuster was called in to handle the press. >> and in...

>> richard radcliff was the fbi polygraph examiner. >> i said i dont care what you threw in the bridge, i dont care what you threw in the water, you wont 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 yo...