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.
sessions, he walked into the back of the studio and he had horrible scratches on his arms. deep and painful crisscrossing both arms. it was more this way and that way and that way and that way and that way. and they were angry looking. and when i looked at him, the first words out of my mouth was, oh, wayne, what happened? that looks awful. and he said he had fallen into a bush. 15-year-old terry pue died late that january. his body dropped by the roadside in a rural county 20 miles from home. he had been strangled. his mother whoever killed him, he had to tussle with him because he had scratches all over him. 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 you realized, it was fairly obvious.
had been arrested. and i think what happened is people stopped looking and stopped counting. murders have continued in atlanta. shootings of black men, stabbings of black women. but not strangulations like before, not black youth dumped far from where they were killed. detective welcome harris would stay on the police force another 25 years. we asked him how many more children were killed the way they were in the 80s. none that i can recall. none that i can recall. wayne williams appeals would drag on for years. he almost won the first one. georgia supreme court justice 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
vehicle and i didn t want to corrupt the my dad s testimony in the eyes of the jury, so i lied about it and said i didn t have it on the stand. what makes this important is what time robert henry says he saw wayne and nathaniel cater together. it was about 9:15 to 9:30. it was on luckie and forsyth street in downtown atlanta. so at the trial you said that you were in bed until 10:00 p.m. you were so sick that your mother said she had to help lie your body out on the bed you were so sick. this is where the confusion with all of us came in. i got back from hotlanta records probably about 9:00, 9:30. but there s no one to corroborate that, even if his mother were still alive. wayne said she probably didn t see him come in. prosecutor jack mallard. he was out that night, no question in my mind. he was not at home. he was out and about.
on june 3rd, the fbi brought wayne in for a long night of questioning. wayne agreed to a lie detector test. he was as composed and calm as you can get. got 26 bodies out there in the woods and rivers and he s sitting there in total control. richard radcliff was the fbi polygraph examiner. i said i don t care what you threw in the bridge, i don t care what you threw in the river if it wasn t a little boy s body. you won t defy this test. he said what he would ask. did you kill him that night that you were on the bridge and did you throw nathaniel cater into the river? when i ran that test, i was like, wow, this is it. wayne williams flunked all three questions. i said, well, this test reflected that you did kill nathaniel cater and it was his body you threw off the bridge that night. the polygraph measures sweating, the heartbeat, blood pressure, all rise with tension.