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>> williams says he drove to that office near the atlanta airport. he had taken photos for this poster the night before and went there to turn in this invoice to get paid. >> we delivered a bill and statement of services that we were cut a check for. and it was probably about 9:00 or 9:30 when i left that location. >> we reached hotlantas owner, melvin ware, now living in los angeles. >> he called in advance and when he came, i went back and wrote the check behind the desk. thats where our check...

Training as a teenager. at a secret government camp hidden in the woods near this north georgia lake, where he was given what could amount to alicense to kill. its called finding myself. whats finding myself? it reads like an autobiography. >> good morning. 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 cope of it. >> yeah, but were not going to get into that. >> why not? >> you just said were not going to get i...

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 is where the confusion with all of us came in. i got back from hotlanta records probably about 9:00, 9:30. >> but theres no one to corroborate that, even if his mother were still alive. 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...

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. >...

>> no, he -- my father never said that. i never said that and my father never said it. >> while father and son were inside the fbi, evidence technicians were combing the williams home. the fbis top fiber expert, harold dedman, led the search. in waynes bedroom he took clippings from a purple bedspread and from a yellow blanket. >> your blanket was located under wayne williams bed. >> on the floor, a green carpet. this is a blow-up of those carpet fibers. >> theyre the only company to produce a f...

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 80s. >> none that i can recall. none that i ...

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 there anything i can bring? would you like anything? he said, would you bring me so...

Called the other witness to ask about the sketch. >> no. i dont even remember seeing that. >> supporters of wayne williams say there was one murder which shows the fiber evidence could be faulty. the death of 12-year-old clifford jones, left by a dumpster in an alley on a summer night in 1980. some of those unusual green carpet fibers were on his body. yet, another boy said he saw a coin laundry operator kill clifford jones. detective welcome harris said the boy was not believable. >> he exagger...

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 downtown atlanta. >> so at the trial you said that you were in bed until 10:00 p.m. ...

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 from williams. >> then there was eric middlebrooks and the ...