this was to be the last night, almost the last hour. i heard the splash. bob campbell, a police 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 statn 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
the best that i could describe 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. because if that rope had been in the station wagon that night, i m sure they would have taken it. the fact that i didn t confiscate it didn t make it go away. the nylon cord would never be seen again. could have been the murder weapon as far as i know. fbi supervisors decided to let wayne williams go that night. we didn t have a body. secondly, there was no who saw wayne williams outside of his car. there was no one that saw him throw anything overboard. two days later, only a mile downstream from that bridge, another body. after two years, one suspect now, wayne williams. when we come back, the lie detector test. the surprise that he didn t beat that. he was convinced he could beat a polygraph test. he was like i ll be darned. the guy we have been looking for for two years. hmm, it says here that c
what here, now there are five women involved in the suits and the fact that they are being so public about this, might even encourage other people to come forward and file a claim? great question. the case isn t going to be tried in public opinion, it s going to be tried in court. in court you can t say, i was sexually harassed and she was too and she was too, that s hearsay. you can necessarily say, there are other lawsuits filed, too. that s also hearsay. that won t come in. but pattern evidence may come in if they can establish that he has a pattern of conduct without using hearsay. that s an interesting legal strategy. dov charney may want to introduce if it it ends up going to trial some of the things he s introduced. his strategy is to say he s the victim and to blame the victim. and i bet you that s going to
wayne williams said the court was bullied into making its u-turn. i think the pressure came from as high as the white house. and we ll leave it at that. not so, said george smith, now retired from the court but still practicing law in his 90s. i can t imagine that would have happened in a case like this. i can t imagine having any case but certainly this case. it didn t reach to the white house. smith did write a dissenting opinion. he said the fiber evidence fell short of scientific certainty and the prosecution should not have been allowed to use the so-called pattern evidence on ten other murders. i said only similarity in the crimes in this case is the fact that all of them were dead. smith was denounced on the floor of the georgia legislature. i was an n-lover. you know what n stands for. mary welcome agreed. when justice smith wrote the defense attorneys were
george smith helped a colleague write a ruling that would have reversed the verdict. he would have found the evidence didn t support a conviction. that s what he did find originally. but the five other justices resisted. when we met they pitched a royal fit. they were not going to overturn the conviction, the five of them wasn t. in the end, all the justices except smith agreed to uphold the conviction. wayne williams said the court was bullied into making its u-turn. i think the pressure came from as high as the white house. and we ll leave it at that. not so, said george smith, now retired from the court but still practicing law in his 90s. i can t imagine that would have happened in a case like this. i can t imagine having any case but certainly this case. it didn t reach to the white house. smith did write a dissenting opinion. he said the fiber evidence fell short of scientific certainty and the prosecution should not have been allowed to use the so-called pattern