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as a young child, reed would help the volunteers searching atlanta s woods every saturday. we literally would walk through wooded areas chaperoned and we would walk for a period of time until about an hour before nightfall. but now a new twist in the murders. patrick baltazar, the 20th victim, would be the last child to turn up in a wooded area. a day or two later an official would tell reporters fibers and dog hairs were being collected from the victim s clothing. the next child to die would be found in a river wearing nothing but underpants. fewer clues now for larry peterson. we re talking maybe a dozen or dozens of fibers as opposed to hundreds or potentially a thousand fibers. the 13-year-old victim was found beneath this bridge over the south river in atlanta s suburbs. ....
Helps prevent the urge to smoke all day. i want this time to be my last time. that s why i choose nicoderm cq. the second day after wayne williams was seen on the chattahoochee river bridge, the body of nathaniel cater washed up downstream. he was a down on his luck drunk, 28 years old, but small, weighing under 150 pounds. again, the medical examiner said cater could have been killed, quote, with a choke hold, trapping the neck in the crook of the arm. his would be the last body found in the atlanta murders. the 27th male victim. ....
At cater s funeral, wayne 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 that night. ....
because if that rope had been in the station wagon that night, i m sure they would have taken it. the fact that i didn t confiscate it doesn t make it go away. it was there. the nylon cord would never be seen again. could have been the murder weapon, as far as i knew. yet, fbi supervisors decided to let wayne williams go that night. we, first of all, didn t have a body. so secondly, there was no one who saw wayne williams outside of his car. there was no one that saw him throw anything overboard. two days later, only a mile downstream from that bridge, another body. after two years, one suspect now, wayne williams. ....