15-year-old terry pue died late that january, his body dropped by the roadside in a rural county 20 miles from home. he had been strangled. his mother. whoever killed him, he had to tussle with him because he had scratches all over him. it gives me chills down my spine still. to this day, kathy andrews does not believe wayne s explanation. he did not fall in a bush. it was after you realized, it was fairly obvious. and i don t know what else could have caused that kind of wound on his arm. the intervals between murders were shrinking, 19 days from lubie geter s disappearance until terry pue s death, then 15 days until the next victim. soon 13, then 11, and, before long, a body a week. fbi profiler roy hazelwood says this is not unusual for serial
Died were poor who earned spending money carrying groceries, running errands for others or, like lubie geter, peddling car deodorizers outside this supermarket on new year s weekend 1981. his mother worried about him going off alone. he said he was a big boy. they had to catch him first. lubie was a good student, a sophomore in high school. a witness at the shopping center that day saw lubie with a man and helped a police artist draw this sketch, a man with a baseball cap, perhaps a scar on his cheek. lubie never came home. i believe he had been kidnapped. police searched the woods around atlanta. they did not find lubie. instead, police found two other bodies, young boys who had disappeared ten miles and a
atlanta was about to explode, and here was information potentially that the klan could have been doing this. bob ingram with the gbi, georgia s bureau of investigation, got the case. it was an entire family of brothers that were involved in the klan that were the focus of this particular intelligence information. an informant said one brother had threatened lubie geter, the child found dead only weeks before. the klan associate lived here on a dead-end street in the railroad town of mountainview on the outskirts of atlanta. we re tapping telephones. we heard a lot of rhetoric. we heard a lot of racial slurs. on one wiretap, the detectives heard this said. go find you another little kid? the gbi followed the four brothers for almost two months.
Killers. they come to believe that they, in fact, are almost immune to mistakes, if you will, and they can take greater risks because it s more exciting and because they re so superior they don t have to worry about the inferior police catching them. after a month, lubie geter s body would be found in the woods, the boy left naked except for scraps of underwear. the medical examiner would testify geter apparently had been killed by, quote, a choke hold around the neck, a forearm across the neck. it s a question we ll have reason to ask wayne williams by the end of all of this. it s actually a very simple question. can you kill someone with a choke hold? you probably could. you probably could under the right circumstances. i know for a fact i could not. announcer: when we return,