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Kaders body was nude, but his hair was caked with mud. >> lou that silt was able to recover dog hair and fibers that were close to his scalp. >> the dog hair was consistent with sheba, the wayne williams family dog. in kaders hair was one of those unusual green carpet fibers. under a microscope peterson could see the boomerang shape. just like those in the williams family carpet. this is an actual piece of that carpet, which the fbis harold denman said was quite rare. >> its got an unusual carpe...

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

Testimony in the eyes of the jury so i lied about it and said i didnt have it on the stand. >> it was in downtown atlanta. >> at the trial you said that you were in bed until 10:00 p.m. autoright. >> you were so sick your mother said she had to help lie your body out in the bed you were so sick. >> this is where the confusion with all of this came in. i got back from hotlanta records probably about 9:00, 9:30. >> but there is no one to corroborate that even if his mother were still alive. wayne ...

Henry worked with him. he said he saw him leaving 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, like male and female. if you hold a hand with one of my co-workers, both of you are male, what am i supposed to do? turn my head? the next time i saw him was in the courtroom. >> when wayne williams took the stand earnings swore he never met nathaniel kader. on the evening henry said he saw them, wayne...

>> no, you did not. >> never met them once? >> no. >> not once? >> no. >> its incalculatable the odds that its not -- that they were not in contact with him in this environment. >> the fiber evidence is your biggest obstacle. >> that fiber evidence may well have been manipulated in this case, point-blank and simple. simple because they had a suspect that was wayne, and that manipulation, no doubt, has continued even after my trial and up until this point. >> there were just too many fibers place...

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 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. ...

>> it was more this way and that way and that way and that way and that way. and they were angry-looking. and when i looked at him, the first words out of my mouth was, "oh, wayne, what happened? that looks awful." and he said he had fallen into a bush. >> 15-year-old terry pue died late that january. his body dropped by the roadside in a rural county 20 miles from home. he had been strangled. his mother -- >> whoever killed him, he had to tussle with him because he had scratches all over him. >...

>> jo-jo bell, unrelated to yusef bell, came by capn pegs one last time. >> around 3:30, 4:00 monday he came by and stuck his head in the door. said "richard, im going to shoot basketballs, ill see you later." throwed his hand up, went on up the street. >> to a schoolyard basketball court like this. this witness, lugene laster knew jojo and saw him leave the game. he said jojo left in a station wagon that looked like this. laster testified he got in the car, got in waynes car. in court laster wo...

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 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 contin...

Very blunt with you -- there was no yellow blanket. >> or maybe you got rid of it between the first time they searched and they came back. >> seems like to me if i was a police officer i would have confiscated the blanket. it doesnt make sense. >> the prosecution was allowed to bring in ten other deaths -- 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 consist...