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Wayne came to one of the sessions, he walked into the back of the studio and he had horrible scratches on his arms. >> deep and painful crisscrossing both arms. >> 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 ...

They detained him for littering is what he said. i said that doesnt -- he said 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 n...

Or ten minutes. we already spent maybe a half hour or something like that. >> how did wayne get to the 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 -...

>> okay. >> what wayne had written about being recruited for espionage 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 a license 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 copy of it. >> yeah, but were not goin...

>> a week later, sammy davis jr. and frank sinatra came to atlanta for a concert to benefit the children. the photographer up on stage, thats waynes father, homer williams, with the black newspaper "atlanta world." >> how come you got no tuxedo on there on the stage looking like that there? >> backstage with sammy davis jr. in a photo which made the front page, thats future mayor kasim reed. >> i remember that. it was so cool meeting frank sinatra. >> as a young child, reed would help the volunt...

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. >...

You have three choices -- guilty, innocent or not proven. this time the verdicts yours. 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...

The second day after wayne williams was seen on the chattahoochee river bridge, the body of nathaniel cater washed up downstream. he was a down on his luck drunk, 28 years old, but small, weighing under 150 pounds. again, the medical examiner said cater could have been killed, quote, with a choke hold, trapping the neck in the crook of the arm. his would be the last body found in the atlanta murders. the 27th male victim. at caters funeral, wayne williams father, homer, took this photo for the "...

>> 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 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 ca...

atlanta georgia. in all, more than two dozen victims. most of them strangled. by may, 1981, the police and f.b.i. were hiding in the brush beside and below theiver bridges. this was toe be the last niekt. almost the last hour. >> i heard the splash. >> reporter: bob campbell, a police recruit, jumped to his feet. >> i was really startled. it sounded like a body entering water. >> he looked up at the bridge. >> and i saw brake lights of a car. i saw red lights. the car started slowly mo...