and when i looked at him, the first words out of my mouth was, oh, wayne, what happened? that looks awful. he said he had fallen into a bush. 15-year-old terry pugh died late that january. his body dumped on a roadside 20 miles from home. he had been strangled. whoever kill him he had to usle with him because he had scratches all over. it gives me chills down my spine still. to this day, kathy andrews does not believe wayne s explanation. he did not fall in a bush. it was after he realized it it was fairly obvious. i don t know what else could have caused that wound on his arm. the intervals between murders were shrinking. 19 days from lubi s disappearance until terry pugh s death, then 15 days until the
0 a couple of quick headlines. after admitting she used a racial slur on youtube. the network says they are reviewing our business relationship with miss deen. plans are settled for the funeral of actor james gandolfini. he died of a heart attack wednesday in italy. his body is expected to arrive back in the united states tomorrow. he was 51 years old. i m don lemon, thanks for joining us. good night. for two years, the bodies of black children had been found in the woods, then the rivers of atlanta, georgia. in all, more than two dozen victims, most of them strangled. by may 1981, the police and fbi were hiding in the brush, beside and below the river bridges. 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 chatahoochie river. he looked up at the bridge. i saw the brake lights of a car come on, i saw red lights. the car started slowly moving away from me across the bridge. campbell
because they didn t know what was happening. our parents were fearful for their children. there were a lot of anxiety and talk because people didn t know really what was happening. all they know is that we was finding bodies. kids was missing, and bodies were popping up all over the place. so that was a great deal of mistrust. the fear permeated the whole city such that the children, the families, wanted the police to solve this case, you know. but three days into 1981, lubby jeter, a friendly tenth grader who works part time at a car wash, disappears outside a grocery store a few miles from his home. his badly decomposed body is found in the woods a month later. police determine he was strangled. then, 15-year-old terry pugh doesn t show up for school on january 22nd. a concerned teacher sets out to find him.
when we got out there to where he lived, somebody told us that he had just got picked up in a car, and we got there a little bit too late. well, he didn t come home that night. as a matter of fact, he didn t come home anymore because they found him dead. terry pugh is discovered two days later in a wooded area strangled by a cord. another crime scene without any clues leaves police feeling helpless. i was mad because i don t know who the guy is. are you scared? for the children. not for myself. how long has he been missing? he didn t go to school today. he stole a car. uh-huh. tennis shoes. suspect also has long curly hair.
this is the first time wayne williams has talked on tv in at least a decade. why do you think you were convicted? fear. what do you mean? atlanta, at the time, was in a panic. they wanted any suspect that they could find. and let s just be honest. it had to be a black person, because if it had been a white suspect, atlanta probably would have gone up in flames. it came very close to that. do you think you ll ever be free? no doubt it s not a matter of if to me. it s a matter of when. some 30 years after wayne williams trial and conviction, there is still debate and some doubt. this time, you can be the judge and the jury. we ll lay out the evidence on both sides and you ll hear from wayne williams at length. then we ll invite you to reach your own verdict, guilty, innocent, or a third choice, not proven. the first clue was found on a dead boy s tennis shoes. the victim was eric middlebrooks. his body left here in a rainy alley. a foster child who rode his bicyc