but under cross-examination, the jury sees a different side of him. >> when i got close to him, and i asked him, i said, wayne, how did it feel when you were killing those children? and he blew up. >> the trial was certainly turned on wayne williams' testimony. the fact that jack mallard actually got wayne williams to be combative and angry and snapping and sarcastic, that showed the jury that this apparently mild-mannered, young man might, in fact, be capable of committing these crimes. >> after a nine-week trial, 700 exhibits and 250 witnesses, the jury reaches a verdict. they find wayne williams guilty of the murders of nathaniel cater and jimmy ray payne. he is given two consecutive life sentences. >> i felt a relief.