errand and was dead by dawn. detective bob buffington saw something red stuck to eric s tennis shoe. and i noticed in the flap of the edge of this shoe this tuft of what to me appeared to be wool. and that was it. we could find no other evidence. back at homicide, buffington showed the fibers to his superiors. the lieutenant made a big joke out of it and told the rest of the squad that if i went over to the lieutenant s house and cleaned out the lint trap in his dryer we could probably clear out all the cases in the city of atlanta. still, buffington sent the fibers to the state crime laboratory. a young forensic scientist, larry peterson, took a look. so why was a fiber that was stuck in the crack of a shoe, why was that important? because it was somewhat loosely there.
the lieutenant made a big joke out of it and told the rest of the squad that if i went over to the lieutenant s house and cleaned out the lint trap in his dryer, we could probably clear out all the cases in the city of atlanta. still, buffington sent the fibers to the state crime laboratory. a young forensic scientist, larry peterson, took a look. why was that a fiber that was stuck in the crack of a shoe, why was that important? because it was somewhat loosely there. people normally don t have tufts of carpet fibers stuck loosely in their shoe. from those few thin threads, peterson would begin to build a case to try to catch a killer. how many fibers across the board did you look at every day in this case, when the case really started getting busy? 100? 500? 1,000? literally there s going to be hundreds if not thousands of fibers there, depending upon the case. in the spring of 1980, no one wanted to believe a serial
to the lieutenant s house and cleaned out the lint trap in his dryer, we could probably clear out all the cases in the city of atlanta. still, buffington sent the fibers to the state crime laboratory. a young forensic scientist, larry peterson, took a look. why was a fiber that was stuck in the crack of a shoe, why was that important? because it was somewhat loosely there. people normally don t have tufts of carpet fibers stuck loosely in their shoe. from those few thin threads, peterson would begin to build a case to try to catch a killer. how many fibers across the board did you look at every day in this case, when the case really started getting busy? 100? 500? 1,000? literally there s going to be hundreds if not thousands of fibers there, depending upon the case. in the spring of 1980, no one wanted to believe a serial
joke out of it and told the rest of the squad that if i went over to the lieutenant s house and cleaned out the lint trap in his dryer, we could probably clear out all the cases in the city of atlanta. still, buffington sent the fibers to the state crime laboratory. a young forensic scientist, larry peterson, took a look. why was a fiber that was stuck in the crack of a shoe, why was that important? because it was somewhat loosely there. people normally don t have tufts of carpet fibers stuck loosely in their shoe. from those few thin threads, peterson would begin to build a case to try to catch a killer. how many fibers across the board did you look at every day in this case, when the case really started getting busy? 100? 500? 1,000? literally there s going to be hundreds if not thousands of fibers there, depending upon the
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 policeman in a chase car hidden on the other side came on the radio. he just said, the car is pulling in the parking lot here turning around in front of me and started coming back across the bridge, coming back in my direction. this is that white station wagon. police followed it and stopped it nearby. fbi agent mike mccomas rushed to the scene. the driver was standing by the highway. he was talking with the officers. saw a black male. he had on a baseball hat. had on glasses. the young man was wayne wi