but wayne said, i had the vehicle and i didn t want to corrupt the my dad s testimony in the eyes of the jury, so i lied about it and said i didn t have it on the stand. what makes this important is what time robert henry says he saw wayne and nathaniel cater together. it was about 9:15 to 9:30. it was on luckie and forsyth street in downtown atlanta. so at the trial you said that you were in bed until 10:00 p.m. you were so sick that your mother said she had to help lie your body out on the bed you were so sick. this is where the confusion with all of us came in. i got back from hotlanta records probably about 9:00, 9:30. but there s no one to corroborate that, even if his mother were still alive. wayne said she probably didn t see him come in. prosecutor jack mallard. he was out that night, no question in my mind. he was not at home.
these fibers? the chances would be just astronomical. this witness, robert henry, did place williams with the very last victim, nathaniel cater. henry worked with cater. he said he saw him leave this theater with wayne williams on the night of the bridge incident. henry has no doubt even today about what he saw. they were holding hands, you know, like male and female. well, if you re holding hands with one of my co-workers and 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.
three questions. i said, well, this test reflected that you did kill nathaniel cater and it was his body you threw off the bridge that night. the polygraph measures sweating, the heartbeat, blood pressure, all rise with tension. you breathe a little faster. you have a hard time getting your breath. you sweat a little more. he did all those. wayne williams took the test three times. he failed each time. i said, some reaction like i ll be darned, you re the guy we ve been looking for for two years. it surprised him that he didn t beat that polygraph test. he was convinced he could beat a polygraph test. he sat there and studied it and said what s this question right here? i said that s pretty good. did you cause the death of nathaniel cater. then he said, what s this question? i said did you throw his body into the chattahoochee river. with the media waiting outside the fbi, the mayor s
four years after the trial, robert henry would change his story about seeing the last victim nathaniel cater holding hands with wayne williams. in this affidavit, henry wrote, if my life depended on it, i could not say the man i saw with cater was wayne williams. our producer confronted henry with that affidavit. his signature is at the bottom. yes, that s my handwriting. whose words are those? they re not mine. whose words are they? i d rather not say. in the summer of 1986, henry was in prison here when he said an associate of wayne williams came to see him and told him what to write. when you said, i could not i.d. the face of wayne williams as the man i saw with nathaniel cater, are those your words?
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