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Mccomas search his Station Wagon. On the floor, in the front of the back seat, he saw there was a nylon cord. The best that i could describe the nylon cord 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 doesnt make it go away. It was there. The nylon cord would never be seen again. Could h...

He came out of the chute like a bull. when he said, you want the real wayne williams, youve got him, i think all of us -- the jury understood that, yeah. >> i was probably my own worst enemy. i was an arrogant, bus-headed idiot at the time and i played 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...

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 fragments were sent to the fbis dna laboratory in quantico, virginia. the result? the lab said it found this dna sequence in only 29 out of mo...

Went to the funeral home to identify their child. >> they told me he had struggled, you know, for his life. and seeing the print, the rope print, across his neck, all the way around the front. >> at patrick baltazars funeral, she would insist on an open casket. >> i just wanted the world to 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 baltazar, our

>> the fbis hal dedman, a dna expert, said this finding is as strong as it can get with this particular type of testing. >> it probably would exclude 98% or so of the people in the world. >> did you kill 11-year-old patrick baltazar? >> i did not kill patrick baltazar or anybody else. >> did you ever meet patrick baltazar? >> no, i did not. >> never been in contact with that kid? >> i dont even know a patrick baltazar. >> we offered to show the dna findings to the stepmother, sheila baltazar. >>...

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...

>> we literally would walk through wooded areas chaperoned and we would walk for a period of time until about an hour before nightfall. >> but now a new twist in the murders. patrick baltazar, the 20th victim, would be the last child to turn up in a wooded area. a day or two later an official would tell reporters fibers and dog hairs were being collected from the victims clothing. the next child to die would be found in a river wearing nothing but underpants. fewer clues now for larry peterson. ...

Williams blew up at prosecutor jack mallard. >> that morning, he was a complete different person. immediately he started attacking. he came out of the chute like a bull. when he said, you want the real wayne williams, youve got him, i think all of us -- the jury understood that, yeah. >> i was probably my own worst enemy. i was an arrogant, bus-headed idiot at the time and i played right into these peoples hands. i could see almost the shock in the jurors faces. my god, is this the same wayne th...

Theres yet another twist in the missing and murdered children case. >> atlanta is a city of frustrations and fears. >> as the number of missing and murdered children grow -- >> the body was indeed another victim of atlantas child killer or killers. >> patrick baltazar was the kid convinced he could catch a killer. >> he was like i want to find this killer and get the reward money and im going to buy my mom a house and im going to do this and im going to find this killer. >> his stepmother, sheil...

>> patrick baltazar, 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 bowed our heads. >> and hoped for your safety and prayers were said. oh, god, please bring back that missing boy. when he returns, we will shout for ...