in wayne s bedroom he took clippings from a purple bedspread and from a yellow blanket. your blanket was located under wayne williams bed. on the floor, a green carpet. this is a blow-up of those carpet fibers. they re the only company to produce a fiber like this. but larry peterson was still in the dark. i had no idea there was a bridge incident. he had been called to the fbi office to help search this station wagon. but not told why. then he spotted fbi techs returning from their search and so he went out to the home to snip fibers for himself. saw all the green carpet. did you feel, this is it? you know, i really didn t. because it was a middle class home. a young man living with his parents. but peterson thought i m going to run this back to
to bring in ten other deaths among them patrick baltazar, eric middlebrooks, jo-jo bell, to try to show a pattern. this is a chart showing fibers that were recovered from the body of patrick baltazar. fibers consistent with that blanket, with wayne williams bedspread, the green carpet, hair from wayne s dog, plus a leather jacket. the jacket as i recall was hanging in his closet. and dedman told the jury two human hairs were found inside patrick baltazar s shirt. these two hairs were consistent with originating from williams. then there was eric middlebrooks and the fiber stuck to his tennis shoe. this is a blow-up of those red fibers. the same kind were in a car williams was driving that year. this puts middlebrooks both in the interior and of the 79 ford and the trunk of the 79 ford. did you ever meet any of the young men who were victims? no, i did not. never met them once?
carpet fibers were on his body. yet, another boy said he saw a coin laundry operator kill clifford jones. detective welcome harris said the boy was not believable. he exaggerated stuff. he could in other words, he was open to suggestions. and if you said that mickey mouse was up there and if he sensed that you wanted him to say that, he d say yeah. wayne supporters point out the laundry manager failed two police lie detector tests. but few are aware of a third test given by the fbi examiner, richard radcliff. the result in layman s terms, he passed. he wasn t involved in killing jones. only days after wayne williams was convicted of killing two adults, atlanta s police commissioner closed the books on 21 other murder victims, declaring they too were killed by williams. most were children.
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. and then when he flared off, then they were ready to say, well, okay, so he does have fire. when you got angry with the prosecutor, you said, you re a drop shot. i called him a drop shot. what s a drop shot? what does that mean? quite simply in our vernacular, a drop shot is a guy who is not worth much of anything. just drop him and shoot him and get him out of the way. in other words, you re useless. we reminded wayne he also called poor black children on the streets the same thing, drop shots. that does not make me a murderer simply because i said somebody was a drop shot or because i called him a drop shot. that does not make wayne williams a murderer because i said somebody is a street urchin. come on, we re talking about murder. the fact is, i didn t kill anybody. the jury didn t come back until late the second evening
williams father, homer, took this photo for the atlanta world newspaper. 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 water, 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