it turned out to be the same afternoon jo-jo bell disappeared. at trial, the witness said the man was wayne williams. jo-jo s body would not be found for seven more weeks, until easter sunday. it had floated far down the south river, almost into another county. he also had nothing on but underwear basically. medical examiner joseph burton went out in a boat to retrieve the boy. we ve got the body wrapped in a sheet. i m the one with the shirt off. dr. burton ruled both jo-jo and the other boy found in the river had been asphyxiated. we didn t have any history of either one of these boys swimming in the south river in their underwear. other bodies were now washing up in the chattahoochee river to the west and the north of atlanta. five victims in that river in the next six weeks. i said, you know, if i was doing that, i d be throwing them
show or get money to, you know, buy stuff at the store or something like that. jo-jo bell, unrelated to yusef bell, came by cap n peg s one last time. around 3:30, 4:00 monday he came by and stuck his head in the door. he said, richard, i m going to shoot basketball. i ll see you later. throwed his hand up, went on up the street. to a schoolyard basketball court like this. this witness, lugene laster, knew jo-jo and said he saw him and left in a station wagon that looked like this. lester testified he got in the car, got in wayne s car. in court, laster would identify wayne williams as the driver. lugene laster, he s pretty much an eye witness, said that you gave a ride to jo-jo bell in your station wagon. okay.
a driver crossing that bridge earlier in the week saw a man leaning over the railing. it turned out to be the same afternoon jo-jo bell disappeared. at trial, the witness said the man was wayne williams. jo-jo s body would not be found for seven more weeks, until easter sunday. it had floated far down the south river, almost into another county. he also had nothing on but underwear basically. medical examiner joseph burton went out in a boat to retrieve the boy. we ve got the body wrapped in a sheet. i m the one with the shirt off. dr. burton ruled both jo-jo and the other boy found in the river had been asphyxiated. we didn t have any history of either one of these boys swimming in the south river in their underwear. other bodies were now washing up in the chattahoochee river to the west and the north of
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 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.
it? remember what fbi agent mike mccomas said he saw when he got to the scene? saw a black male. he had on a baseball hat. this is the sketch provided by the witness who saw lubie geter talking to a man the day lubie disappeared and died. mccomas had never seen this until we came back to show it to him nearly 30 years later. this is a real strong resemblance to the person that i talked to, wayne williams. he had on a baseball cap. his hair was in an afro. so this just looks like him. williams agreed to let mccomas search his station wagon. on the floor, in the front of the back seat, he saw there was a nylon cord. the best that i could describe the nylon cord was a ski rope type, the woven type. and it was my guess about 24 inches long. no. williams denies there was any such cord.