there to turn in this invoice to get paid. we delivered a bill and statement of services that we were cut a check for. and it was probably about 9:00 or 9:30 when i left that location. we reached hotlanta s owner, melvin ware, now living in los angeles. he called in advance and when he came, i went back and wrote the check behind the desk. that s where our checkbook was. but he said williams didn t stay that long, not as late as 9:00. it wasn t like five minutes or ten minutes. we already spent maybe a half hour or something like that. how did wayne get to the office? he drove. i think he had his dad s car, if i m not mistaken. wayne s father, homer williams, testified he had the station wagon until almost midnight that night. but chet dettlinger, an investigator for the defense, said wayne told him long ago this was a lie. he told me he had the car if daddy didn t have the car.
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. but if he is one of the three missing children, the chances are strong that he was 11-year-old patrick baltazar mrs. baltazar and her husband
leaning over the railing. it turned out to be the same afternoon jo-jo bell disappeared. at trial, the witness said the man was wayne williams. jo-jo s body would not be found for seven more weeks, until easter sunday. it had floated far down the south river, almost into another county. he also had nothing on but underwear basically. medical examiner joseph burton went out in a boat to retrieve the boy. we ve got the body wrapped in a sheet. i m the one with the shirt off. dr. burton ruled both jo-jo and the other boy found in the river had been asphyxiated. we didn t have any history of either one of these boys swimming in the south river in their underwear. other bodies were now washing up in the chattahoochee river to the west and the north of atlanta. five victims in that river in the next six weeks. i said, you know, if i was
fiber at first i had no idea who had made it. i just knew it was very distinctive and i would recognize it instantly. but he didn t know where to find it. wayne williams was not yet on anyone s radar. he had freelanced as a tv cameraman who shot fires in overnight news. he told us i know the streets of atlanta. i ve been around a while. being an ex-news reporter and all, nighttime is me. that s the time i m out most of the time. now, almost 23, a wannabe music producer, he was trying to form a singing group modeled after the jackson 5. in fact, the afternoon lubie geter disappeared, williams says this receipt shows he had an alibi, auditioning young singers from 4:30 to 8:30 that evening. the studio was a small demo studio. kathy andrews was co-owner of that studio.
out all the cases in the city of atlanta. still, buffington sent the fibers to the state crime laboratory. a young forensic scientists, larry peterson, took a look. why was that a fiber that was stuck in the crack of a shoe, why was that important? because it was somewhat loosely there. people normally don t have tufts of carpet fibers stuck loosely in their shoe. from those few thin threads, peterson would begin to build a case to try to catch a killer. how many fibers across the board did you look at every day in this case, when the case really started getting busy? 100? 500? 1,000? literally there s going to be hundreds if not thousands of fibers there, depending upon the case.