Patrick Baldazar News Today

See that this child could have been anybodys child. >> patricks fifth grade classmates wrote a poem read at his funeral. this from local tv coverage that day. >> patrick, our school mate, you came to school though sometimes late, but you were never mean to anyone. you tried to help people and thought it was fun. then one night, one terrible night, you didnt come home, not even at daylight. somethings happened to that boy, the people said. patrick is missing. is patrick dead? we cried some and we...

>> his stepmother sheila was worried. >> for 10, 11-year-old child to be talking like that that was just like, wow, where is his mind at? >> patrick was a latch key child, living unsupervised with an older brother in a project apartment near downtown. >> he was very streetwise. >> he stayed out late at night, often at the omni center, now the headquarters of cnn, but back then a hotel complex with an indoor skating rink and game room for kids. >> thats where he spent a lot of his time at, at the...

Found dead. many dumped in the woods around atlanta. >> i was very fearful. >> sheila pleaded to send patrick back home to the rest of his family in rural louisiana. >> if i had somewhere to send my son, i would have sent my son. >> one evening, a white man in a big car appeared to threaten patrick and a small friend. >> the little boy said patrick said, man that, might be the killer. >> patrick used a pay phone to call police. he told them a man was chasing me and my friend in a brown cadillac....

The side behind you and close thard hands or fist together and pulled the ligature, basically. >> in other words, killed from behind. >> most likely, yes. >> state crime lab scientist larry peterson attended the autopsy. >> i can recall one autopsy pulling a fiber off one of the victims. it was a green carpet fiber and founded the sample under the slide. when i looked, it was the same one. >> the body was indeed another victim of atlantas child killer or killers. >> local television carried thes...