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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. a driver crossing that bridge earlier in the week saw a man ....
To bring in ten other deaths among them patrick baltazar, eric middlebrooks, jo-jo bell, to try to show a pattern. this is a chart showing fibers that were recovered from the body of patrick baltazar. fibers consistent with that blanket, with wayne williams bedspread, the green carpet, 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? ....
There s yet another twist in the missing and murdered children case. atlanta is a city of frustrations and fears. as the number of missing and murdered children grow the body was indeed another victim of atlanta s child killer or killers. patrick baltazar was the kid convinced he could catch a killer. he was like i want to find this killer and get the reward money and i m going to buy my mom a house and i m going to do this and i m going to find this killer. his stepmother, sheila baltazar, was worried. for a 10, 11-year-old child to be talking like that, that was just like, wow, where is his mind at? patrick was a latch-key child living unsupervised with an older brother in a project apartment near downtown. he was very streetwise. ....
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. 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. ....
Two hairs. she listened. then this. without a shadow of a doubt, i really in my heart believe that wayne williams killed patrick baltazar. next, trained to kill. were you trained in unarmed combat techniques? could you grab somebody bigger than yourself, put them in a chokehold. i m sure there are other things in unarmed combat besides putting somebody in a chokehold. taxi. ....