never said it. while father and son were inside the fbi, evidence technicians were combing the williams home. the fbi s top fiber expert, harold dedman, led the search. in wayne s bedroom he took clippings from a purple bedspread and from a yellow blanket. your blanket was located under wayne williams bed. on the floor, a green carpet. this is a blow-up of those carpet fibers. they re the only company to produce a fiber like this. but larry peterson was still in the dark. i had no idea there was a bridge incident. he had been called to the fbi office to help search this station wagon. but not told why. then he spotted fbi techs returning from their search and so he went out to the home to snip fibers for himself. saw all the green carpet.
around atlanta. they did not find lubie. instead, police found two other bodies, young boys who had disappeared ten miles and a month apart, yet both left here at the same dumping ground. the number of known dead now 15. the unsolved murders of so many children had become front page news around the nation and the world. this is the reward the city announced a $100,000 reward, soon to grow to $500,000. the task force was swamped with sketches of suspects, none of them alike, many suggested by psychics. at the state crime lab, larry peterson was sifting through thousands of fibers, nylon, rayon, acrylic, acetate. is it like looking for a needle in a haystack?
i remember that. that s so cool meeting frank sinatra. as a young child, reed would help the volunteers searching atlanta s woods every saturday. we literally would walk through wooded areas chaperoned and we would walk for a period of time until about an hour before nightfall. but now a new twist in the murders. patrick baltazar, the 20th victim, would be the last child to turn up in a wooded area. a day or two later an official would tell reporters fibers and dog hairs were being collected from the victim s clothing. the next child to die would be found in a river wearing nothing but underpants. fewer clues now for larry peterson. we re talking maybe a dozen or dozens of fibers as opposed to hundreds or potentially a thousand fibers.
in wayne s bedroom he took clippings from a purple bedspread and from a yellow blanket. your blanket was located under wayne williams bed. on the floor, a green carpet. this is a blow-up of those carpet fibers. they re the only company to produce a fiber like this. but larry peterson was still in the dark. i had no idea there was a bridge incident. he had been called to the fbi office to help search this station wagon. but not told why. then he spotted fbi techs returning from their search and so he went out to the home to snip fibers for himself. saw all the green carpet. did you feel, this is it? you know, i really didn t. because it was a middle class home. a young man living with his parents. but peterson thought i m going to run this back to
ligature, basically. in other words, killed from behind. most likely, yes. all right. let me place another sample on this side. state crime lab scientist larry peterson attended the autopsy. i can recall at one autopsy pulling a fiber off of one of the victims. it was a green carpet fiber and mounted the sample on the slide went over and looked under the microscope and it s the same one. you knew right then? knew right then. apparent it s another victim of atlanta s child killer or killers. local television carried these pictures live from the crime scene. as it was studied it was apparent it was one of the three children listed as missing. we re told the child s body sheila baltazar got a call from her mother. she say, they found another