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. 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.
hair was caked with mud. digging through that silt, i was able to recover dog hair and fibers that were close to his scalp. the dog hair was consistent with sheba, the wayne williams family dog. in cater s hair was one of those 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.
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 probably my own worst enemy. i was an arrogant, bus-headed idiot at the time and i played right into these people s hands. i could see almost the shock in the jurors faces. my god, is this the same wayne that was up here yesterday? i could see that. patrick baltazar s stepmother was watching in court that day. i m like, this man got to be crazy. this man i mean, he it s like he s saying, yeah, i killed them, but you better prove it. can you prove it? he was doing everything he can to outsmart everybody. and it was like, i did it but can you prove i did it? camille bell, yusef s mother, believed wayne to be innocent. she feels that last day on the witness stand convicted him.
they don t have no places being at certain times of the day or night. some of them don t have no kind of home supervision. they re just running around in the streets wild. i m saying when you re doing that, that s not giving anybody a license to kill but you re opening yourself up for all kinds of things. we asked wayne what he meant. when you say that s not giving anybody a license to kill but you re opening yourself up for all kinds of things my point is very simple. all right. if you re out roaming the streets like not all of these but some of these victims were you put yourself in a position for bad things to happen. for days, the district attorney was reluctant to take wayne williams to court based on fibers alone. while he hesitated, the fbi, police and media all kept a watch on wayne. in this parking lot one day, he showed an angry face to a cnn camera crew. well, hey, i m telling you to quit following me because i m
poster the night before and went there to turn in this invoice to get paid. we delivered a bill and statement of services that we were cut a check for. and it was probably about 9:00 or 9:30 when i left that location. we reached hotlanta s owner, melvin ware, now living in los angeles. he called in advance and when he came, i went back and wrote the check behind the desk. that s where our checkbook was. but he said williams didn t stay that long, not as late as 9:00. it wasn t like five minutes or ten minutes. we already spent maybe a half hour or something like that. how did wayne get to the office? he drove. i think he had his dad s car, if i m not mistaken. wayne s father, homer williams, testified he had the station wagon until almost midnight that night. but chet dettlinger, an investigator for the defense, said wayne told him long ago this was a lie. he told me he had the car if daddy didn t have the car. but wayne said, i had the