unusual green carpet fibers. under a microscope, peterson could see the boomerang shape just like those in the williams carpet. this is a piece of that actual carpet which the fbi s harold dedman said was quite rare. it s got an unusual carpet fiber. it was manufactured a limited amount of time. it was a ten-year-old carpet. on jimmy payne, the other victim, dedman found yellow rayon fibers stuck to his cotton shorts, fibers consistent with the blanket under wayne s bed. i personally took the cutting from the yellow blanket that was under the bed. this evidence slide contains the yellow blanket fibers that dedman clipped that night, magnified by our own video camera. but when larry peterson had returned that june for a second search a couple weeks later there was no yellow blanket
rogers slumped over in a station wagon as wayne williams drove away. but another person also saw rogers in that station wagon at that same intersection that day. he helped a police artist draw this sketch. it does not look like wayne williams. however, the defense never called the other witness to ask about the sketch. no. i don t even remember seeing that. supporters of wayne williams say there was one murder which shows the fiber evidence could be faulty. the death of 12-year-old clifford jones, left by a dumpster in an alley on a summer night in 1980. some of those unusual green carpet fibers were on his body. yet, another boy said he saw a coin laundry operator kill clifford jones. detective welcome harris said the boy was not believable. he exaggerated stuff. he could in other words, he was open to suggestions.
defense attorneys were ineffective. we were rendered ineffective. we were rendered incompetent because of the lack of funds, the lack of time and the lack of resources, absolutely. things did go wrong in the trial that should not have. an ambulance driver suggested an explosive motive for wayne williams. this from cnn s report at the time. bobby tolin said williams asked him once had he ever considered how many blacks could be eliminated by killing one nigger child. but unknown to either side tolin was not his real name. in fact, he had a criminal record. he testified under a false name, had an extensive arrest record under his real name. i m not sure that we knew all of that at the time or it was disclosed to us. rogers home is eight blocks away from where he was found today. then the murder of larry rogers, a retarded youth. this witness testified she saw
both of you are males what am i supposed to do turn my head? the next time i saw him, he was in the courtroom. when wayne williams took the stand, he swore he never met nathaniel cater. on the evening henry said he saw them, wayne testified he was home, sick and asleep in bed. his mother and father, now deceased, backed him up. homer williams said he had the white station wagon until almost midnight. under cross-examination, in his third day on the stand, wayne williams blew up at prosecutor jack mallard. that morning, he was a complete different person. immediately he started attacking. he came out of the chute like a bull. when he said, you want the real wayne williams, you ve got him, i think all of us the jury understood that, yeah. i was prably my own worst enemy. i was an arrogant, bus-headed idiot at the time and i played
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