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With three choices: 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, wayne, is t...

Among them patrick baltazar, eric middlebrooks, jo-jo bell, to try to show a pattern. >> this is a chart showing fibers that were recovered from the body of patrick baltazar. >> fibers consistent with that blanket, with wayne williams bedspread, the green carpet, hair from waynes dog, plus a leather jacket. >> the jacket as i recall was hanging in his closet. >> and dedman told the jury two human hairs were found inside patrick baltazars shirt. >> these two hairs were consistent with originating...

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...

This bridge. >> they were convinced that the crimes had stopped because wayne had been arrested. >> and i think what happened is people stopped looking and stopped counting. >> murders have continued in atlanta. shootings of black men, stabbings of black women. but not strangulations like before, not black youth dumped far from where they were killed. detective welcome harris would stay on the police force another 25 years. we asked him how many more children were killed the way they were in the...

Detective welcome harris said the boy was not believable. >> he exaggerated stuff. he could -- in other words, he was open to suggestions. and if you said that mickey mouse was up there and if he sensed that you wanted him to say that, hed say yeah. >> wayne supporters point out the laundry manager failed two police lie detector tests. but few are aware of a third test given by the fbi examiner, richard radcliff. the result -- >> in laymans terms, he passed. he wasnt involved in killing jones. >...

>> some of these kids in places they dont have no business being at certain times of the day or night. some of them dont have no kind of home supervision. theyre just running around in the streets wild. im saying when youre doing that, thats not giving anybody a license to kill but youre opening yourself up for all 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 ...

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 police car, williams would never be free again. ...

Lie detector test. then asked about the victims, wayne williams said this. >> some of these kids in places they dont have no places being at certain times of the day or night. some of them dont have no kind of home supervision. theyre just running around in the streets wild. im saying when youre doing that, thats not giving anybody a license to kill but youre opening yourself up for all kinds of things. >> we asked wayne what he meant. when you say thats not giving anybody a license to kill but ...

>> some of these kids in places they dont have no business being at certain times of the day or night. some of them dont have no kind of home supervision. theyre just running around in the streets wild. im saying when youre doing that, thats not giving anybody a license to kill but youre opening yourself up for all 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 ...

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 testified he was home, sick and asleep in bed. his mother and father, now deceased, back...