Page 6 - Eric Middlebrooks News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

>> yes. >> disappeared. >> in the first place, there was never a yellow blanket. >> there were fibers of a yellow blanket. >> there were fibers alleged to have come from a yellow blanket. nobody has been able to produce the yellow blanket because quite simply -- and i'm 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, too. it doesn't make sense. >> the prosecution was allowed to bring in ten other deaths -- amon...

Your own verdict, guilty, innocent, or a third choice, not proven. the first clue was found on a dead boy's tennis shoes. e victim was eric middlebrooks. his body left here in a rainy alley. a foster child who rode his bicycle away one night on an errand and was dead by dawn. detective bob buffington saw something red stuck to eric's tennis shoe. >> and i noticed in the flap of the edge of this shoe this tuft of what to me appeared to be wool. and that was it. we could find no other evidence. >> back at homicide, buffington showed the fibers to his superiors. >> the lieutenant made a big joke ...

Then we'll invite you to reach your own verdict, guilty, innocent, or a third choice, not proven. the first clue was found on a dead boy's tennis shoes. the victim was eric middlebrooks. his body left here in a rainy alley. a foster child who rode his bicycle away one night on an errand and was dead by dawn. detective bob buffington saw something red stuck to eric's tennis shoe. >> and i noticed in the flap of the edge of this shoe this tuft of what to me appeared to be wool. and that was it. we could find no other evidence. >> back at homicide, buffington showed the fibers to his superiors. >...

Among them, patrick baltizar, eric middlebrooks, jojo bell to try to show a pattern. >> this is a chart showing fibers that were recovered from the body of patrick balti sfwl ar. >> fibers consistent with that blanket, with wayne williams' bedspread, the green carpet, hair from wayne's dog, plus a leather jacket. >> the jacket was, as recall, was hanging in his closet. >> and he told the jury, two human hairs were found inside patrick baltizar's shirt. >> these were consistent with originating from williams. >> then there was eric middlebrooks and the fibers stuck to his tennis shoe. this is a...

Be a black person because if it had been a white suspect, atlanta probably would have gone up in flames. it came very close to that. >> do you think you'll ever be free? >> no. that is not a matter of if to me, it's a matter of when. >> some 30 years after wayne williams' trial and conviction, there is still debate and some doubt. this time you can be the judge and the jury. we'll lay out the evidence on both sides. you'll hear from wayne williams at length. then we'll invite you to reach your own verdict, guilty, innocent or a third choice, not proven. the first clue was found on a dead boy's...