Wanted to believe a serial killer was loose in the city, even when bob buffington spotted a disturbing pattern. there had been a sharp increase in the number of children under the age of 14 who had been killed. when he told his boss at homicide, the major threatened to transfer him. and i truly think that they were afraid that there would be a panic. it was this mother, after the loss of her 9-year-old son, who finally forced police to listen, but not until almost a year after her boy died. camille bell and her children lived in these project apartments. poor to the eye, but rich in mind and spirit. yusef bell was an honor student in the gifted program at school. on a warm october sunday in 1979 he walked away on an errand to
Among them, clifford jones and yusef bell. but without trials, the mothers were left without a verdict, one way or the other, in the deaths of all of the children. camille bell. even if it takes 30 trials, i don t care, you know, prove it. the prosecutor s answer, it would serve no purpose. you can only serve one life sentence. just ahead a new alibi that backfires. he was out that night, no question in my mind. he was not at home. he was out and about. and after all these years, new dna evidence. it probably would exclude 98% or so of the people in the world. vo: today s the day.
Show or get money to you know, to buy stuff at the store or something like that. jo-jo bell, unrelated to yusef bell, came by cap n peg s one last time. around 3:30, 4:00 monday he came by and stuck his head in the door. said, richard, i m going to shoot basketballs, i ll see you later. throwed his hand up, went on up the street. to a school yard basketball court like this. this witness, lugene laster, knew him and said he saw him and left in a station wagon that looked like this. lester testified he got in the car, got in wayne s car. in court lester would identify wayne williams as the driver. lugene laster pretty much an
Together so you can t act as scared as you are. the body of yusef bell was found in an abandoned schoolhouse. his body would not turn up for another month. yusef bell had been strangled. all of the what could have been, should have been and probably would have been was taken away, and we ll never know now, because somebody decided that it was all right to just kill a little kid because they wanted to. for a long time, the 3-year-old would look for yusef every time it was a foggy day. and we d go out into the fog and she would go as far as she could into the fog. and i d say, come back here. and she d say, i got to go find my brother. and she said, the clouds came down, so yusef can come down. the child, her mother said, had confused the fog with
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.