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? no. not once? no. it s incalculable the odds that they were not in contact with the fiber. the fiber evidence is your biggest obstacle. that fiber evidence may have
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Been manipulated in this case point blank and simple because they had a suspect which was wayne and that manipulation no doubt continued even after my trial up until this point. there were just too many fibers placed on too many bodies. mike dearham in blue seen here the night of the verdict was one of the jurors. what would the chances be of finding these same all of these fibers? the chances would be just astronomical. this witness, robert henry, did place williams with the very last victim, nathaniel cater. henry worked with cater. he said he saw him leave this theater with wayne williams on the night of the bridge incident. henry has no doubt even today about what he saw. they were holding hands, you know, like male and female. well, if you re holding hands with one of my co-workers and
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
this is a single tuft from the carpet. cut in cross-section. yeah, i can t tell that s green. even putting the tiny fibers under the microscope didn t help me. how can you tell what color this is? because in this, this green carpet because of that light green, looks very whitish. the colors microscopically is not going to be identical to what overall carpet would be. instead, an even more sophisticated microscope. so let me just open this up can separate colors to separate fibers. we took another look. now you re talking. now peterson knew what to look for. when i was looking at the 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