and he was an appealing candidate against dorsey, who by then had off-put a lot of people. and had sort of an imperialistic approach to being sheriff. >> as a cop, dorsey was known for working the wayne williams atlanta missing and murdered children's cases in the 1980s. but the sheriff's office was a different kind of place. >> the sheriff's office was what dorsey made of it. he turned it into a little fife dom -- fifedom for himself. >> there were things going on in that sheriff's department that those of us in law enforcement in the district attorney's office had no idea about. >> as the campaign for sheriff heated up in the summer of 2000, pictures were leaked to the press that seemed to show that dorsey was lawless, himself. the photos showed he'd bus criminals from his dekalb county jail to do work on his home. they worked for dorsey's wife, sherry, an elected member of the atlanta city council.