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The woods near this north georgia lake, where he was given what could amount to a license to kill. its called, finding myself. whats finding myself? it reads like an autobiography. >> go ahead. im listening. >> its an account of your cia training. >> were not going to get into that. >> why not? >> were not going to get into that. >> i got a copy of it. >> yeah, but were not going to get into it. >> why not? >> were just simply not going to get into that. >> by his account, wayne was fresh out of...

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 from williams. >> then there was eric middlebrooks and the fiber stuck to his tennis shoe. this is a blow-up of those red fibers. the same kind were in a car williams was driving that year. >> this puts middlebrooks both in the interi...

Wayne said she probably didnt see him come in. prosecutor jack mallard. >> he was out that night, no question in my mind. he was not at home. he was out and about. >> less than six hours after henry said he saw williams and cater here, police heard a splash under this bridge. caters body washed up downstream two days later. 30 years ago, there was no dna testing. now there is. and so new evidence. remember those two human hairs found inside 11-year-old patrick baltazars shirt? in 2007, the hair ...

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...

>> quite simply in our vernacular, a drop shot is a guy who is not worth much of anything. just drop him and shoot him and get him out of the way. in other words, youre useless. >> we reminded wayne he also called poor black children on the streets the same thing, drop shots. >> that does not make me a murderer simply because i said somebody was a drop shot or because i called him a drop shot. that does not make wayne williams a murderer because i said somebody is a street urchin. come on, were ...

Right into these peoples hands. i could see almost the shock in the jurors faces. my god, is this the same wayne that was up here yesterday? i could see that. >> patrick baltazars stepmother was watching in court that day. >> im like, this man got to be crazy. this man -- i mean, he -- its like hes saying, yeah, i killed them, but you better prove it. can you prove it? he was doing everything he can to outsmart everybody. and it was like, i did it but can you prove i did it? >> camille bell, yus...

Defense attorney mary welcome did not expect the guilty verdict. >> i was crestfallen. >> so why do you think the jury convicted him? >> because he might have been guilty. because he might have been. >> during the trial, medical examiner robert stivers told the jury there had been very few strangulations of black males in the years before these murders began, and none at all with bodies left in rivers or by the roadside since that night wayne williams was stopped leaving this bridge. >> they wer...

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...

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 never said that and my father never said it. >> while father and son were inside...