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>> during the trial, medical examiner robert stivers told the jury there had been very few strangulations of black males in the years before these murders began, and none at all with bodies left in rivers or by the roadside since that night wayne williams was stopped leaving this bridge. >> 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...

These fibers? the chances would be just astronomical. >> this witness, robert henry, did place williams with the very last victim, nathaniel cater. henry worked with cater. he said he saw him leave this theater with wayne williams on the night of the bridge incident. henry has no doubt even today about what he saw. >> they were holding hands, you know, like male and female. well, if youre holding hands with one of my co-workers and both of you are males what am i supposed to do turn my head? the...

Come on, were talking about murder. the fact is, i didnt kill anybody. >> the jury didnt come back until late the second evening. 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 pro...

>> there were fibers alleged to have come from a yellow blanket. nobody has been able to produce the yellow blanket because quite simply -- and im just being very blunt with you -- there was no yellow blanket. >> or maybe you got rid of it between the first time they searched and they came back. >> seems like to me if i was a police officer i would have confiscated the blanket. it doesnt make sense. >> the prosecution was allowed to bring in ten other deaths -- among them patrick baltazar, eric ...

>> lugene laster pretty much an eyewitness said you gave a ride to jo-jo bell in your station wagon. >> okay. >> did you? >> no, i did 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. t...

>> i got a copy of it. >> yeah, but were not going to get into it. >> why not? >> were just simply not going to get into that. >> by his account, wayne was fresh out of high school, just 18 years old, when he was approached by an associate of an old world war ii spy living in the atlanta area and was initiated into a secret world. youre not going to answer a single question on this? >> no, maam. >> is it fake? is it fictional writing? >> no. >> did you work for the cia? >> were not going to get ...

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 fiber like this. >> but larry peterson was still in the dark. >> i had no...

Less than 3%. most important, wayne williams dna had the same sequence. >> i think -- i dont think they said it was a match. they said they could not rule out whomever the hairs were from as being the possible donor. >> 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 els...

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 rural county 20 miles from home. he had been strangled. his mother -- >> whoever killed him, he had to tussle with him because he had scratches all over him. >> it gives me chills down my spine still. >> to this day, kathy a...

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 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 ...