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>> this is the first time wayne williams has talked on tv in at least a decade. why do you think you were convicted? >> fear. >> what do you mean? >> atlanta, at the time, was in a panic. they wanted any suspect that they could find. and let's just be honest. it had to 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 doubt it's 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 debat...

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 moving away from me across the bridge. >> reporter: campbell radioed the other team members up above h...

this was to be the last night, almost the last hour. >> i heard the splash. >> bob campbell, a police recruit, jumped to his feet down beside the chattahoochee river. >> i was really startled. it sounded like a body entering the water. >> he looked up at the bridge. >> and i saw brake lights of a car coming. i saw red lights. the car started slowly moving away from me across the bridge. >> campbell radioed the other team members up above him. >> i asked, did a car stop on the bridge? because i couldn't believe what i saw. and each person told me they didn't see it. >> then a policema...

Two are each on the street corner watching to make sure the police don't come. what they fail to understand is there are cameras. all we had to do is put the face with the name. >> they had a picture of me. they're like, is this your son? my mom was like, no. because on the picture it don't look like me. so they're like, we're about to charge you for lying to the police, because i'm on probation too. and they said if i don't turn myself in, they're going to give my mama six years. i'm very mad at myself. i wish i had never done the things i did. >> is it kenneth or kentrell? >> brothers kennet...

>> greta: you have seen the top stories but here is the best of the rest. a high school student finds a very clever way to get into his dream college. the california teen revamped a jackson 5 song to impress the university of michigan. ♪ well, when i was just star starting out i didn't know where to apply ♪ ♪ so many schools to choose from but none of them caught my eye ♪ ♪ then i saw you michigan and after an in depth look no wonder college could compare the blue got me on the shook ♪ oh, michigan give me one more chance ♪ ♪ won't you please let me into your school ♪ ♪ oh,...