there s yet another twist in the missing and murdered children case. atlanta is a city of frustrations and fears. as the number of missing and murdered children grow the body was indeed another victim of atlanta s child killer or killers. patrick baltazar was the kid convinced he could catch a killer. he was like i want to find this killer and get the reward money and i m going to buy my mom a house and i m going to do this and i m going to find this killer. his stepmother, sheila baltazar, was worried. for a 10, 11-year-old child to be talking like that, that was just like, wow, where is his mind at? patrick was a latch-key child
said it was a match. they said they could not rule out whomever the hairs were from as being the possible donor. the fbi s hal dedman, a dna expert, said this finding is as strong as it can get with this particular type of testing. it probably would exclude 98% or so of the people in the world. did you kill 11-year-old patrick baltazar? i did not kill patrick baltazar or anybody else. did you ever meet patrick baltazar? no, i did not. never been in contact with that kid? i don t even know a patrick baltazar. we offered to show the dna findings to the stepmother, sheila baltazar. i can t read it. please don t make me read it. oh, my god! so we told her what the fbi
obviously guilty. the defense attorney. not proven. one way or the other. the fbi agent in charge. guilty of two double homicide. sheila baltazar. he could have killed all of them. the supreme court justice. not proven. the witness. guilty. camille bell. innocent but stupid. that first task force detective. no maybes, ifs. guilty. the right man for those homicides is in jail. the original audience verdict, guilty. 69%. innocent, 4%. not proven either way, 27%.
living unsupervised with an older brother in a project apartment near downtown. he was very streetwise. he stayed out late at night, often at the omni center, now the headquarters of cnn, but back then a hotel complex with an indoor skating rink and a game room for kids. that s where he spent a lot of his time at, at the games arcade. wayne williams was known to frequent the omni, passing out these fliers as a talent scout to offer auditions to boys from age 11 on up. 15 kids are dead. two others are officially missing by early february, 1981, more than a dozen young african-american boys had been found dead, many dumped in the woods around atlanta. i was very fearful. my god. sheila baltazar pleaded to send patrick back home to the rest of his family in rural louisiana. if i had somewhere to send my
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 body. she say, i really feel like this is patrick s body here, you know. oh, my god.