Under cross-examination, in his third day on the stand, wayne williams blew up at prosecutor jack mallard. that morning, he was a complete different person. immediately he started attacking. 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.
Reach when this documentary was first broadcast. but before then, a look at some of the answers from those who lived through the terror 30 years ago. the prosecutor. obviously guilty. the defense attorney. not proven. one way or the other. the fbi agent in charge. guilty of two double homicide. sheila baltazar. he could have killed all of them. the supreme court justice. not proven. the witness. guilty. camille bell. innocent but stupid. that first task force detective. no maybes, ifs. guilty. the right man for those homicides is in jail. the original audience verdict, guilty. 69%.
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. the verdict, guilty on both counts of murdering the two adults, cater and payne. wayne williams was sentenced to serve two life terms. people only wanted to look at the negative side because they wanted in their heart for this case to be over and for wayne to be the atlanta monster. they wanted closure at any cost. leaving court, homer williams walked by the prosecutor s table. he looked at us and called us sons-of-bitches. still to come, no verdict in the deaths of any of the children. even if it takes 30 trials, i don t care, you know. prove it. [vet] two yearly physicals down.
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. less than six hours after henry said he saw williams and cater here, police heard a splash under this bridge. cater s body washed up downstream two days later. 30 years ago, there was no dna testing. now there is. and so new evidence. remember those two human hairs found inside 11-year-old patrick baltazar s shirt? in 2007, the hair fragments were sent to the fbi s dna laboratory in quantico, virginia. the result? the lab said it found this dna sequence in only 29 out of more than 1,100 samples of african-american hairs in its database.
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. 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.