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Car, got in waynes car. in court laster would identify wayne williams as the driver. >> lujeep laster. >> okay. >> hes pretty much an eyewitness. said you that gave a ride to jojo bell in your station wagone a right to joe joe bell in your station wagon. did you? >> no, i did not. >> you never gave a right to jo jo bell. >> no, i did not. >> he insisted his passenger had to be someone else. jo jo bell was never to be seen again. >> it would be horrendous if another child dies period. >> a week l...

Fibers alone. while he hesitated, the fbi, police and media all kept a watch on wayne. in this parking lot one day, he showed an angry face to a cnn camera crew. >> well, hey, im telling you to 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 polic...

When you say thats not giving anybody a license to kill but youre opening yourself up for all kinds of things -- >> my point is very simple. all right. if youre out roaming the streets like -- not all of these but some of these victims were -- you put yourself in a position for bad things to happen. >> for days, the district attorney was reluctant to take wayne williams to court based on fibers alone. while he hesitated, the fbi, police and media all kept a watch on wayne. in this parking lot on...

Kinds of things. >> we asked wayne what he meant. when you say thats not giving anybody a license to kill but youre opening yourself up for all kinds of things -- >> my point is very simple. all right. if youre out roaming the streets like -- not all of these but some of these victims were -- you put yourself in a position for bad things to happen. >> for days, the district attorney was reluctant to take wayne williams to court based on fibers alone. while he hesitated, the fbi, police and media...

>> 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. >>...

>> but he said williams didnt stay that long, not as late as 9:00. >> it wasnt like five minutes or ten minutes. we already spent maybe a half hour or something like that. >> how did wayne get to the office? >> he drove. i think he had his dads car, if im not mistaken. >> waynes father, homer williams, testified he had the station wagon until almost midnight that night. 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...

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 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...