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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 that was up here yesterday? i could see that. >> patrick baltazars stepmother was watching in court ...

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. >> go ahead. im listening. >> 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 going to get into it. >> why not...

You never gave a ride to jo-jo bell? >> no, i did not. >> williams did not deny he was the driver. he instead insisted his passenger had to be someone else. jo-jo bell was never to be seen again. >> it would be horrendous if another child dies, period. >> 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...

Now remember, youre one of the jurors. three choices, guilty, innocent, or simply 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 d...

Harold dedman, led the search. in waynes bedroom he took clippings from a purple bedspread and from a yellow blanket. >> the yellow 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 fiber like this. >> but larry peterson was still in the dark. >> i had no idea there was a bridge incident. >> he had been called to the fbi office to help search this station wagon. but not told why. then h...

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. you were so sick that your mother said she had to help lie your body out o...

Know, to buy stuff at the store or something like that. >> 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 school yard basketball court like this. this witness, lugene laster, knew him and saw him leave the game. he said he left in a station wagon that looked like this. lester testified he...

>> 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 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...

Coin laundry operator kill clifford jones. 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 pa...

The verdict, guilty on both counts of murdering the two adults, cater and payne. wayne williams was sentenced to serve two life terms. >> people only wanted to look at the negative side because they wanted in their heart for this case to be over and for wayne to be the atlanta monster. they wanted closure at any cost. >> leaving court, homer williams walked by the prosecutors table. >> he looked at us and called us sons-of-bitches. still to come, no verdict in the deaths of any of the children...