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<v Speaker 1>You may start the conversation now what you're the world?

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<v Speaker 1>Hell those strains. I'm finally out the hold of everything.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm doing great. They let me out yesterday. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>it was the craziest thing. And boy, how the incident happened.

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<v Speaker 1>Boy will be a separate podcast except but you would

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<v Speaker 1>never believe. Maybe it's a good thing that went down

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<v Speaker 1>because a lot of role bluffs got out on the

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<v Speaker 1>way and a lot of rules got over pain. Wayne

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<v Speaker 1>was out of the hole and I dearly calls with him.

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<v Speaker 1>We're now back in full swing. They let me out

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<v Speaker 1>yesterday at the institute. You know, they were weigh out

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<v Speaker 1>of from listening on to said, yeah, it's going good

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<v Speaker 1>and all that, you know, and they're telling me they've

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<v Speaker 1>been following it all and and they explained it. And

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<v Speaker 1>I sat down with the ward and all three of them,

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<v Speaker 1>and I explained the whole project what we do sat

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<v Speaker 1>gen way, he said, because I was played him. I said,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, I'm not trying to talk to me. I said,

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<v Speaker 1>we're trying to do stuff to pace out on FLA.

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<v Speaker 1>He said, well, the people you need to get in

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<v Speaker 1>here and see like t I like, he said, do

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<v Speaker 1>you get with me and the lawyer and I'll make

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<v Speaker 1>it happen. They put me back in the same though

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<v Speaker 1>back it was, but everything they did a complete reset.

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<v Speaker 1>It had been a month since I last talked to Wayne.

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<v Speaker 1>Before I could ask him any more questions, it was

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<v Speaker 1>strictly business. He first set up a conference call with

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<v Speaker 1>Dwayne and I was up. It was hold on one second.

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<v Speaker 1>Wayne is on the other lines. Yeah, I've got Dwayne

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<v Speaker 1>here in Pain, and I want to reiterate the saying

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<v Speaker 1>they would Wayne on the line when we said to

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<v Speaker 1>make sure that everybody's off in fact, same page. Nobody

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<v Speaker 1>speaks for Wayne but Wayne. But I've never delegated chairman

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<v Speaker 1>to him. All the contexts regarding the interurnacy and the

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<v Speaker 1>legal affairs on that some Pain understands because that anything

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<v Speaker 1>regarding to release some documents and uh anything like the

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<v Speaker 1>case needs to come through Dwayne, because Dwayne is the

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<v Speaker 1>most knowledge below in this case. And my guys playing

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<v Speaker 1>to pay. You're the only person to Jim that could

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<v Speaker 1>actually what we're him to the neighborhoods. We introduce it

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<v Speaker 1>to the people he's gonna really need to see because

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<v Speaker 1>they're not going to talk with him otherwise. To to

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<v Speaker 1>beat the bushes and all see anything regarding my legal

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<v Speaker 1>case to the way where I'm delegating the things pay

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<v Speaker 1>regarding the legal case in contact, you go through Jimmy

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<v Speaker 1>on all of that, make that happen. And then they

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<v Speaker 1>regarding the documents or whatever, we have to go through

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<v Speaker 1>Dwayne and says in the institute of people I trust

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<v Speaker 1>to do that. The podcast was airing now and it

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<v Speaker 1>seemed like it was making Wayne a little antsy. Next,

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<v Speaker 1>he set up a conference call with his friend Jimmy.

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<v Speaker 1>You're gonna have to get mcgimpy. He's gonna have to

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<v Speaker 1>kick you meet all of these different people in all

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<v Speaker 1>of that takes money. It is you understand what I'm saying.

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<v Speaker 1>Like that, Dwayne is gonna do the same thing. When

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<v Speaker 1>they're gonna be suspects. They're gonna meet people who eye

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<v Speaker 1>witnesses to these things, but they have to take you

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<v Speaker 1>into goods. Did you cant going I'm being funny pay

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<v Speaker 1>but being a young white boy that places, you can't

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<v Speaker 1>go about yourself with this. They're gonna happen to you. Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>to you understanding what I'm saying is about He didn't

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<v Speaker 1>have one minute lesson they're the eyes. Yes, to get

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<v Speaker 1>it right, they'd be able to tell you know, it

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<v Speaker 1>didn't happen. That's what, Yes, it did happen that way.

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<v Speaker 1>Go by the would any of them say unless you

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<v Speaker 1>hear that for me? They could give you input and all.

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<v Speaker 1>But basically the ball, the ball stops will be paid.

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<v Speaker 1>That's what I'm trying to say. Wayne would have never

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<v Speaker 1>been cans if he was smarter. But the reason Wayne

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<v Speaker 1>was convicted was because of what he did understand when

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<v Speaker 1>he went off the way he went on in court. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>part of that was it was very welcome is at

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<v Speaker 1>Chinese fault. The first two days that Wayne was testifying,

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<v Speaker 1>he was cool. They was asking him questions about being

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<v Speaker 1>gay and all of this different stuff, and he was saying, look, man,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know nothing about this stuff. I didn't do this.

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<v Speaker 1>I wasn't there. And he was cool, calm and collected

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<v Speaker 1>the dispense. Attorney told him to fight back on the

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<v Speaker 1>stand and that's what ended up really getting Wayne for

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<v Speaker 1>getting the guilty verdict. Because people was like, oh, he

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<v Speaker 1>is a doctor, Dico, Mr. The high person. It was

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<v Speaker 1>they heard come to me and do that was a

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<v Speaker 1>new story. Channel five ran he said Wayne Williams of tears,

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<v Speaker 1>too cool and calm. They were responded to a dirt

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<v Speaker 1>blue story. God, she told me Wayne, you need to

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<v Speaker 1>be more forceable. You're looking too calm and cool and

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<v Speaker 1>very threat quit if I didn't do that. And Atlanta,

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<v Speaker 1>another party was discovering today a police task force headquarters.

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<v Speaker 1>There are twenty seven faces on the wall. Twenty six murdered,

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<v Speaker 1>wasn't missing. We do not know the person or persons

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<v Speaker 1>that are responsible. Therefore, we do not have the morte

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<v Speaker 1>from tender for TV and house to forks in Atlanta.

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<v Speaker 1>Like a lot of other recent victims in Atlanta, Rogers

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<v Speaker 1>apparently was asphyxiated. Atlanta unlikely to catch the killer unless

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<v Speaker 1>he keeps on killing. This is a man of monster.

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<v Speaker 1>The first thing I asked Wayne was about the trial

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<v Speaker 1>when he lost his cool on the witness stand. Are

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<v Speaker 1>you're going to find out all of what happened behind

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<v Speaker 1>the scenes on this? Wayne doesn't agree with this, but

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<v Speaker 1>this is my theory behind that. I really think that

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<v Speaker 1>she was a plant. Dwayne is convinced that Wayne's attorney

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<v Speaker 1>Mary Welcome with some sort of plant, but he had

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<v Speaker 1>no evidence to back that theory. Even Wayne himself disagreed.

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<v Speaker 1>I was the one that shows Mary. They didn't choose me.

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<v Speaker 1>You know what I'm saying that was that was a

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<v Speaker 1>s furnament And you know, because I had known him

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<v Speaker 1>before another and be honest with you, I liked as

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<v Speaker 1>a person, how strong over and that's I didn't live.

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<v Speaker 1>He was fine. But that thing they do. But I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>but they didn't bring it to mind, that annoy yet

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<v Speaker 1>you would find she was fine, fine, It was fine, okay,

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<v Speaker 1>apparently it was pretty fun and Mary welcome. I asked

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<v Speaker 1>him about to blow up on the witness stand. This

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<v Speaker 1>was I think my second day on the witness stand.

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<v Speaker 1>And that was an article in the paper and in

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<v Speaker 1>one of the TV stations has been said that I

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<v Speaker 1>was being too cool and calm on the witness stand.

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<v Speaker 1>So my attorneys saw that and they were saying that

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<v Speaker 1>we need to do something we never they were a friend.

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<v Speaker 1>That was Lewis and jury. I was cutting off, being

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<v Speaker 1>too calm and colined, whatever the hick that means, and

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<v Speaker 1>so fid they say, why we need you to be

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<v Speaker 1>more possible and project yourself And I said, how do

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<v Speaker 1>I do this? I mean, how do you try to

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<v Speaker 1>present yourself in such a way because I don't think

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<v Speaker 1>most people realize there isn't a story book that is

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<v Speaker 1>the guy to how you respond to the witness that

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<v Speaker 1>I don't care what we can tell you about what

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<v Speaker 1>kind of perform as you move to. And I just responded,

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<v Speaker 1>you know. And and I was so upset that I

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<v Speaker 1>under sense. And that was a tragic misa me because

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<v Speaker 1>people thought I exploded and I thought, no, I was

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<v Speaker 1>well under control. I wasn't. I wasn't upset at district

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<v Speaker 1>Attorney's over saying I was upset and my laudeous but

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<v Speaker 1>put me in such a tragic situation. So that's what

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<v Speaker 1>my frustration was over. So do you need to that

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<v Speaker 1>played a big role in your conviction, no doubt, no doubt.

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<v Speaker 1>We we talked for a lot of the journ of

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<v Speaker 1>us afterwards, and and and I believe it or not,

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<v Speaker 1>you could actually see the look on their face and

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<v Speaker 1>I could sense it, you know, it was like they

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<v Speaker 1>were like, oh my god, you know. And the dad

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<v Speaker 1>I literally played myself by the stupidity into the teenage

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<v Speaker 1>hands and and and it was it was the turning

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<v Speaker 1>point in the trial. We felled out later on, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>and talking to Wayne and looking at the evidence of

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<v Speaker 1>this case. The entire case was built on fiber evidence.

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<v Speaker 1>There were no fingerprints. I mean, there are allegations that

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<v Speaker 1>some of Wayne's victims were at his house or in

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<v Speaker 1>his car. You mean not one fingerprint was found in

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<v Speaker 1>Wayne's house. He was that methodical that he cleaned all

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<v Speaker 1>of these fingerprints. No neighbors ever said, hey, we saw

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<v Speaker 1>these little boys going in the Wayne's house prison. Right.

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<v Speaker 1>If Wayne was not on that bridge, the case would

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<v Speaker 1>have been solved a different way, or it would still

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<v Speaker 1>be unsolved. Take that bridge out of the equation, then

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<v Speaker 1>what do you have? Vincent Hill reiterated several episodes back

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<v Speaker 1>the overall importance of the bridge fiber evidence aside. If

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<v Speaker 1>you take the bridge out of the equation, you don't

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<v Speaker 1>have Wayne to begin with. Let's listen back to Wayne's

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<v Speaker 1>version of the bridge. In Cent from one of my

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<v Speaker 1>first calls with him. Alpha doors of Pitch is Alpa

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<v Speaker 1>bed sized and one that was the first time I

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<v Speaker 1>a Woyd talk to her about thirty four o'clock. That's

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<v Speaker 1>what she said, you know, I to audition. I said, well,

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<v Speaker 1>before the audition, he needs to interview. He tried to

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<v Speaker 1>persuade the jury he really was out near a bridge

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<v Speaker 1>that night looking for us Cheryl Johnson, who still remains

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<v Speaker 1>a mystery to this trial. The state implied he fabricated

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<v Speaker 1>the story, but Williams didn't much from it, claiming the

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<v Speaker 1>woman simply gave him a wrong number and wrong address.

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<v Speaker 1>And I was suspicious because the information she gave me

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<v Speaker 1>there from evers Cansey. I said always she knows some people,

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<v Speaker 1>knowing that the stunt calls some names, and she didn't

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<v Speaker 1>know him for that kind of reason to plan to say, well,

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<v Speaker 1>why don't you come body apartment were I'm staying with

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<v Speaker 1>the thread. I think she did about seven futigue. I

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<v Speaker 1>gotta be a working at an apartment. That's when she

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<v Speaker 1>gave me the address. I mean you should by that

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<v Speaker 1>address and TVA and I told people are to see

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<v Speaker 1>you tomorrow morning. So as a matter of fact, if

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<v Speaker 1>you look at my statements, I even tell the police

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<v Speaker 1>said the on CONTs not when I took the address

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<v Speaker 1>B because I felt it was a fake address. That's

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<v Speaker 1>why I'm going out to shaking in the first place.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know if we should. That's her name. That

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<v Speaker 1>was just the name that she did. We were doing

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<v Speaker 1>a public ord a lot of people being fat names

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<v Speaker 1>and sat address, so I say all the hoopla over

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<v Speaker 1>Cheryl Johnson's name. You know, she was a plane call.

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<v Speaker 1>The prosecution claimed that Wayne Williams had fabricated the entire

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<v Speaker 1>story of Cheryl Johnson, saying she was fake, and now

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<v Speaker 1>years later, Wayne agrees he was receiving hundreds of calls

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<v Speaker 1>from music auditions and every so often he get a

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<v Speaker 1>prank call, this being one of them. But regardless whether

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<v Speaker 1>or not Ryl Johnson was a prank call, Wayne still

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<v Speaker 1>claims that she called him. Well, at least somebody did.

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<v Speaker 1>Over the course of a few weeks, I kept asking

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<v Speaker 1>him about it, trying to pinpoint an exact timeline for everything,

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<v Speaker 1>and according to Wayne, it starts like this. Do you

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<v Speaker 1>originally did not call me? This was the key point.

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<v Speaker 1>She called my mother, En left a note, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>and my mother left her notes and I and this

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<v Speaker 1>was one of the one if I was leading. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>according to Wayne, Cheryl Johnson originally did not call him.

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<v Speaker 1>She called the number on Wayne's flyer, which at the

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<v Speaker 1>time was his house phone. He wasn't there, so his

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<v Speaker 1>mother answered. This happened the day before the bridge incident.

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<v Speaker 1>Anytimes about a call about an autist and I want

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<v Speaker 1>their UH college to do it, she would just write

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<v Speaker 1>a post it note you know about I talked to

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<v Speaker 1>her the next day. My mom was the one who

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<v Speaker 1>wrote the college. My mom wrote that. So Wayne's mom

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<v Speaker 1>took the call from Cheryl Johnson the day before the

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<v Speaker 1>bridge incident and wrote down her information on a slip

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<v Speaker 1>of paper to give Dwayne. But what exactly did Wayne's

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<v Speaker 1>mom write on the piece of paper? See this wrote comment,

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<v Speaker 1>See your mom wrote down her number and then where'd

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<v Speaker 1>you get the address from? For her pet On the

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<v Speaker 1>note his mom left him was Sheryl Johnson's name, phone number,

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<v Speaker 1>and her address. But Wayne did not make contact with

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<v Speaker 1>her until the next day, around four pm on the

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<v Speaker 1>same night of the bridge incident. According to Wayne, he

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<v Speaker 1>didn't call her. She called his house phone again, but

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<v Speaker 1>this time he was there to answer it. And and

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<v Speaker 1>the next day, um, she called back about four o'clock.

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<v Speaker 1>That's when I answered, you know, and I you know,

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<v Speaker 1>I think if something was wrong with this woman, because

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<v Speaker 1>how information didn't add up many it didn't add up.

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<v Speaker 1>This is where things started to get a little confusing.

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<v Speaker 1>So I'll do my best to break it down, Wayne says.

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<v Speaker 1>The next day he didn't call Sheryl Johnson back, but

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<v Speaker 1>she called his house phone again. Even though Wayne had

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<v Speaker 1>the information to call back himself. With so much emphasis

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<v Speaker 1>on the note from his mom, it seemed to add

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<v Speaker 1>for him to point out. So I asked him about

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<v Speaker 1>it again, just for clarity. No, no, no, she called

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<v Speaker 1>me pain the phone. I don't know what number she

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<v Speaker 1>called I called. I did. I did not call her back,

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<v Speaker 1>That's what I'm saying. I talked to her the after

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<v Speaker 1>the whole This woman claimed she was on the afternoon

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<v Speaker 1>of the twenty one, about four o'clock. We talked about

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<v Speaker 1>maybe five minutes, and when she missed the address, that's

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<v Speaker 1>when you know she was talking. I gotta be at work.

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<v Speaker 1>I said, well, we need to do not an audition

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<v Speaker 1>like dam but an interview. I said, okay, we gotta

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<v Speaker 1>do an interview before ne York digon. That's when she

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<v Speaker 1>was done. She got to go back to MTIS and

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<v Speaker 1>as when I started questioning her on maybe, I said,

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<v Speaker 1>we ought to know songs, so she didn't know anybody.

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<v Speaker 1>I mentioned the names that memp my radar went up

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<v Speaker 1>at that point quite a few people in the music

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<v Speaker 1>because she didn't know any straight So that was the

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<v Speaker 1>only time on talk to this one, Will claimed to

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<v Speaker 1>be shared. He talked to her around four pm that

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<v Speaker 1>day for about five minutes, and he claimed he was

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<v Speaker 1>already a little suspicious of her, but he agreed to

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<v Speaker 1>meet her the next morning at her apartment anyway, and

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<v Speaker 1>he said that that phone call was the first and

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<v Speaker 1>last time he ever talked to Sheryl Johnson. So, your

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<v Speaker 1>mom got the call from from Cheryl Johnson and then

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<v Speaker 1>she wrote down the number and the address the back

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<v Speaker 1>the information, right, okay. So did you have that note

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<v Speaker 1>with you when you went driving out that night? Right? Right?

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<v Speaker 1>That's that's the note, right, okay? So you did you

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<v Speaker 1>take the note? I put my clock boy, I had

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<v Speaker 1>about eight notes. In other words, we did, or if

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<v Speaker 1>it hangs about calling you back, okay, I mean After

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<v Speaker 1>confirming his appointment with Caryl Johnson the next morning, Wayne

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<v Speaker 1>left his house later that night to go find her

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<v Speaker 1>address because he was still convinced she was a fake caller.

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<v Speaker 1>When he left his house, he brought with him the

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<v Speaker 1>slip of paper his mother wrote down her phone number

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<v Speaker 1>and address on. So the night of the incident. What

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<v Speaker 1>time do you leave your house that night? I left

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<v Speaker 1>about six starting to pick up Willie. His first stop

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<v Speaker 1>that night was not to go find RYL. Johnson's address.

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<v Speaker 1>He left around six thirty pm to go to a

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<v Speaker 1>recording studio called Hot Lanta Records to drop off a

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<v Speaker 1>bill for photo shoot services. We went straight to College

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<v Speaker 1>Park meetn Wear Jackie Gado and the people of Hotlins

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<v Speaker 1>bought down about the apple and a little the field

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<v Speaker 1>for the photo services I had done. And we stayed

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<v Speaker 1>there until about maybe about about an hour and uh

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<v Speaker 1>I left about seven forty five and I had to run.

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<v Speaker 1>That was forgett it was a Thursday because I had

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<v Speaker 1>to rush back home to get the card of a

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<v Speaker 1>dad because he had a kawana's clothes beat that night

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<v Speaker 1>and he was late into the beat. But I had

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<v Speaker 1>to drop Willie when I got backwards about eight, maybe

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<v Speaker 1>a little after eight. I took Willie hon home first

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<v Speaker 1>and put the card of my dad. So after you

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<v Speaker 1>left the hot Landa Records, where did you go after that?

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<v Speaker 1>I went home. It's now around eight pm and he's

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<v Speaker 1>back at his house. You got home at eight, And

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<v Speaker 1>then when you leave the house again about one about

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<v Speaker 1>one that morning. Wayne says that he didn't leave the

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<v Speaker 1>house again until one am that night. In the FBI

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<v Speaker 1>case files, Wayne recounts his version of what happened that

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<v Speaker 1>night from that point forward. This is how reads verbat

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<v Speaker 1>him from the FBI documents. When Asta recount his activities

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<v Speaker 1>on the night of Williams stated that he had stopped

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<v Speaker 1>at the Santucci Lounge on West Peachtree to see Wilburt

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<v Speaker 1>Jordan's Williams was attempting to pick up a tape recorder

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<v Speaker 1>which he had loaned him. Williams recalled that he had

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<v Speaker 1>talked to a female who he stated was in her

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<v Speaker 1>forties and who was taking admission. The individual informed Williams

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<v Speaker 1>that Jordan had been in but was not around at

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<v Speaker 1>the time. Williams left a message with her regarding the

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<v Speaker 1>tape recorder and then drove to Smyrder, Georgia an attempt

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<v Speaker 1>to find Cheryl Johnson's address. I asked Wayne about this.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, when I went out, my intention was to

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<v Speaker 1>go to the club about one thirty that morning, but

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<v Speaker 1>I did get to record my attention about silver before

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<v Speaker 1>leer the club. Let me check on this address first,

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<v Speaker 1>and that's when I made the trip up to Cobb

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<v Speaker 1>County and all of his started transpired. But according to

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<v Speaker 1>FBI documents, we made to stop first at a club

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<v Speaker 1>called San Succi Lounge. Hey, I've got to staking I

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<v Speaker 1>sent you my I double made statement to anybody I

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<v Speaker 1>was going to the club. That was my attention to

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<v Speaker 1>get in recorder. I did go to the club until

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<v Speaker 1>the night of the seven. Wayne said he left his

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<v Speaker 1>house with the intention of going to the club, but

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<v Speaker 1>before he made it there, he decided to go check

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<v Speaker 1>on Sheryl Johnson's address first. Contrary to the FBI reports,

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<v Speaker 1>Wayne says he did not go to the club the

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<v Speaker 1>night of the bridge incident, but instead he went the

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<v Speaker 1>following night, the night of May. This whole thing was confusing,

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<v Speaker 1>so a few days later I asked him about it again.

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<v Speaker 1>When I did when I when I went on there

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<v Speaker 1>that night, I went to that, said Susie. First, I

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<v Speaker 1>understand what I'm saying, yep. I went. After I let home,

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<v Speaker 1>I went to the dances at first, all right, I

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<v Speaker 1>asked for uh, what would you all done? Get it

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<v Speaker 1>in the stand, And that was my change. When I'll

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<v Speaker 1>be back later. I left there and I went back

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<v Speaker 1>on I was gonna go home, and I mayn't let

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<v Speaker 1>me check the padress, so I went. I went up

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<v Speaker 1>dead to buy an address. So this would have been

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<v Speaker 1>about I'm cancering about two o'clock something like that. Wayne's

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<v Speaker 1>version of the story had changed. Now he's saying he

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<v Speaker 1>did go to the club that night, the same night

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<v Speaker 1>he was pulled over on the bridge. So which one

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<v Speaker 1>was it? I heard different accounts to right out of

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<v Speaker 1>Wayne's mouth. But one thing that's really important. Being a

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<v Speaker 1>liar doesn't make you a killer. People I all the

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<v Speaker 1>time doesn't make you a killer. Wayne certainly told me

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<v Speaker 1>two completely different stories about the stands Fugi club, So

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<v Speaker 1>a few days later I asked him about it again.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm confused about when you went to the club. One

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<v Speaker 1>time you told me that you went to the club

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<v Speaker 1>before the bridge, and then one time you told me

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<v Speaker 1>that you went the next day. Okay, then let me

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<v Speaker 1>correct that. Okay, So so we'll we'll understand over all

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<v Speaker 1>the confusion over both the club was is that I

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<v Speaker 1>went to the club first and for the bridge incident.

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<v Speaker 1>I went to the club looking for the manager, who

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<v Speaker 1>was a friend of mine. As a matter of fact

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<v Speaker 1>he was a co producer with my music company. I

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<v Speaker 1>did not go to see him again. The FBI and

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<v Speaker 1>the statements driving to turn it around and claim that

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<v Speaker 1>I went to the club in Salt, you know, Johan,

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<v Speaker 1>I never said that. I never saw you know that night.

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<v Speaker 1>What I did was the next night after the bridge incident,

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<v Speaker 1>which would have been the nine of the twenty second,

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<v Speaker 1>I went to the club and Sal you know, Joan,

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<v Speaker 1>I was going out to pick up the cape recorder,

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<v Speaker 1>and so I did see him at the next night.

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<v Speaker 1>Another thing we have pointed out to me in our

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<v Speaker 1>very first conversation about the bridge was something about his

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<v Speaker 1>handwriting and the phone number for RYL. Johnson. You may

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<v Speaker 1>remember this, and the only confusion in the statements was

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<v Speaker 1>over the thing on the telephone number in Cheryl Johnston.

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<v Speaker 1>The number was nine three four Seller Stember six six.

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<v Speaker 1>You'll see when you get my riding. I'm going to

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<v Speaker 1>see it was four three four of the seven six.

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<v Speaker 1>My boys and my eyes looked alike because I closed

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<v Speaker 1>loop them, so the fours and nines were mixed up

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<v Speaker 1>because his handwriting looked the same on the note, No no, no, no,

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<v Speaker 1>you hear everything. The number I wrote was four three

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<v Speaker 1>four seven seven six six. Okay, they're looking at my

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<v Speaker 1>notes in the car, and my rite thought it was

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<v Speaker 1>a man. You understanding what I'm saying, my mines and

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<v Speaker 1>my foes. Look, I can't tell the difference they assumed

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<v Speaker 1>by my writing was nine three four, and that incorrect

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<v Speaker 1>information lasting to this date. So right, that's where the

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<v Speaker 1>confusing came in on it. So when that's why the

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<v Speaker 1>note was stilling part of because the note would have

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<v Speaker 1>shown it was four three fourth not nine three four.

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<v Speaker 1>But Wayne told me earlier that his mother wrote the note,

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<v Speaker 1>the same note he brought with him in the car.

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<v Speaker 1>So your mom got the call from some Cheryl Johnson

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<v Speaker 1>and then she wrote down the number and the address

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<v Speaker 1>like the call back information, right, okay, So did you

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<v Speaker 1>have that note with you when you went driving out

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<v Speaker 1>that night? Right? Right? That's that's the note, right, Okay?

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<v Speaker 1>So you did you take the note I put on

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<v Speaker 1>my clipboard. I had about eight notes on this, So

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<v Speaker 1>how was that possible? Wayne's theory about his handwriting would

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<v Speaker 1>only make sense if he had written the note himself,

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<v Speaker 1>But he didn't, he said his mom did. Unless there

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<v Speaker 1>was a second note. I had an appointment book looked

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<v Speaker 1>me ahead the time, and and to be honest, which

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<v Speaker 1>I can't remember if I actually had the note from

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<v Speaker 1>Cheryl Johnson whipped me that night, bought a notation on

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<v Speaker 1>my appointment book. I'm pretty sure it was a notation

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<v Speaker 1>on my appointment book that I showed the FBI agent.

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<v Speaker 1>On the note that the FBI agent got, that was

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<v Speaker 1>my mom's handwriting. Before Wayne was stopped on the bridge,

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<v Speaker 1>he claimed he had pulled over into a liquor store

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<v Speaker 1>parking lot and used a pay phone an attempt to

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<v Speaker 1>call Cheryl Johnso you called the number, and what happened

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<v Speaker 1>when you called the number one? When when I'm not

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<v Speaker 1>on the number and I'm not on and then the

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<v Speaker 1>verst time I got a you know, I'm um this

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<v Speaker 1>number on this sermons und out and I doubt and

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<v Speaker 1>no the number and then I think was nine and stuff,

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<v Speaker 1>but I can't remember what. I've tried to uphone numbers

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<v Speaker 1>and finally called one number and looked like I whoped

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<v Speaker 1>somebody up and said, well, well master being there. He yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>hum up to down phone like that, not to say

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<v Speaker 1>it was the right number to the person say he eight.

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<v Speaker 1>He had just slammed the phone bounce, So I whoped

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<v Speaker 1>somebody up and I didn't try no more after that.

0:21:24.800 --> 0:21:27.480
<v Speaker 1>This story does match the FBI reports, but I was

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<v Speaker 1>still confused about the handwriting story and the mixed up

0:21:30.480 --> 0:21:32.720
<v Speaker 1>on the phone numbers, so I asked him about it again.

0:21:33.320 --> 0:21:35.320
<v Speaker 1>And so the FBI tried to call the number right

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<v Speaker 1>and then said it didn't work or what no, no,

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<v Speaker 1>no pain. They tried to call three four and now

0:21:42.000 --> 0:21:44.800
<v Speaker 1>or three four like you understanding what I'm saying. Yes,

0:21:44.880 --> 0:21:48.840
<v Speaker 1>So they called the wrong number, right, they tried. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I've never called the nine three four one, and that's them.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know what you know. The number I called

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<v Speaker 1>was four three four seven s six six, and I

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<v Speaker 1>got a lot of dude, I'm not in service or something.

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<v Speaker 1>I can't remember now. And I tried because if I

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<v Speaker 1>but about a minute, and I tried a couple of

0:22:02.880 --> 0:22:05.920
<v Speaker 1>more combinations at all, and I got one with somebody

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<v Speaker 1>else if he is slammed the phone down like that.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, So the number that you had the one

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<v Speaker 1>that they got wrong. Do you think the number that

0:22:13.720 --> 0:22:16.760
<v Speaker 1>you had was her correct number? I don't think any

0:22:16.800 --> 0:22:18.840
<v Speaker 1>of it was correct. That's the point I make it.

0:22:19.200 --> 0:22:21.359
<v Speaker 1>I think she was a focus call from the beginning.

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<v Speaker 1>That's my point. I think the Ryl Johnson was just

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<v Speaker 1>some story he made up really quick too in the morning.

0:22:32.480 --> 0:22:34.800
<v Speaker 1>Wayne could have said a hundred of different things besides

0:22:35.200 --> 0:22:38.240
<v Speaker 1>Cheryl Johnson, which police never found, the Ryl Johnson with

0:22:38.320 --> 0:22:41.560
<v Speaker 1>that phone number which didn't exist. Whatever Wayne was doing

0:22:41.640 --> 0:22:48.800
<v Speaker 1>that night, I don't know. Wayne possibly could be hiding something,

0:22:49.760 --> 0:22:55.000
<v Speaker 1>or maybe Wayne did kill Nathaniel Cator and maybe that's

0:22:55.040 --> 0:22:58.359
<v Speaker 1>why he and Jimmy are the only two murders he

0:22:58.480 --> 0:23:03.399
<v Speaker 1>was convicted of. But simply changing his story it doesn't

0:23:03.400 --> 0:23:06.000
<v Speaker 1>prove anything as far as you know, why not years

0:23:06.080 --> 0:23:08.320
<v Speaker 1>later Wayne said yeah, I lied, here's what I was

0:23:08.359 --> 0:23:10.440
<v Speaker 1>really doing. But at the same time, you could argue

0:23:10.440 --> 0:23:13.639
<v Speaker 1>and say why not years later, because let's be honest,

0:23:13.640 --> 0:23:15.280
<v Speaker 1>I don't think Wayne will ever get out of prison.

0:23:15.359 --> 0:23:18.359
<v Speaker 1>Why not years later say yeah, I'm gonna confess to everything,

0:23:18.440 --> 0:23:22.480
<v Speaker 1>and here's how I did it. Wayne's entire existence is

0:23:22.520 --> 0:23:26.000
<v Speaker 1>built on this. If he confesses, then you know that's

0:23:26.040 --> 0:23:32.520
<v Speaker 1>a rap. Wayne Williams will just diminish. If Wayne confessed,

0:23:33.359 --> 0:23:37.800
<v Speaker 1>he's Wayne was probably up to no good that night,

0:23:38.119 --> 0:23:52.080
<v Speaker 1>but I don't think it involved uh Nathaniel Cator. I

0:23:52.119 --> 0:23:54.320
<v Speaker 1>don't know that there. You know, there was that defining

0:23:54.440 --> 0:23:57.359
<v Speaker 1>moment during that trial. There was one for me and

0:23:57.400 --> 0:23:59.440
<v Speaker 1>as an observer that came at the very end, and

0:23:59.520 --> 0:24:02.240
<v Speaker 1>I still think it is some of the strongest evidence

0:24:02.280 --> 0:24:04.760
<v Speaker 1>that was presented in the trial. And I would tell

0:24:04.800 --> 0:24:09.440
<v Speaker 1>you that your audience has never heard of it. The

0:24:09.520 --> 0:24:13.480
<v Speaker 1>blood too of the last four victims were stabbed the

0:24:13.640 --> 0:24:17.040
<v Speaker 1>end of the stream of murders, John Porter and William Barrett.

0:24:17.600 --> 0:24:20.280
<v Speaker 1>There were two blood sains found in the station wagon.

0:24:20.800 --> 0:24:24.320
<v Speaker 1>They typed them, neither one on her Wayne's blood, but

0:24:24.480 --> 0:24:28.000
<v Speaker 1>they both matched the two victims that had been stabbed,

0:24:28.359 --> 0:24:31.480
<v Speaker 1>Porter and Barren. The link was suggested by showing the

0:24:31.600 --> 0:24:34.080
<v Speaker 1>jury this ripped up car seat that came from the

0:24:34.640 --> 0:24:38.119
<v Speaker 1>seventies station wagon driven by Wayne Williams. An expert from

0:24:38.160 --> 0:24:40.679
<v Speaker 1>the Georgia Crime Lab told the jury that she had

0:24:40.720 --> 0:24:43.480
<v Speaker 1>found that four areas of dried blood on the seat.

0:24:43.880 --> 0:24:48.000
<v Speaker 1>Two types were analyzed, Type A and type B. Prosecutors

0:24:48.080 --> 0:24:51.000
<v Speaker 1>then had witnesses testify about blood samples taken from the

0:24:51.040 --> 0:24:54.600
<v Speaker 1>bodies of John Porter and William Barrett, two victims found

0:24:54.680 --> 0:24:58.480
<v Speaker 1>with stab wounds. Porter had type B, Barrett type A,

0:24:59.080 --> 0:25:01.720
<v Speaker 1>the same as the samples found in the suspect's car.

0:25:02.359 --> 0:25:04.360
<v Speaker 1>The jury also heard the dried blood in the car

0:25:04.440 --> 0:25:06.520
<v Speaker 1>could not be from Williams since he was Type O,

0:25:07.160 --> 0:25:10.399
<v Speaker 1>the state obviously suggesting that the bodies of Barrett and

0:25:10.520 --> 0:25:13.800
<v Speaker 1>Porter were at one time on that seat. Of course,

0:25:13.880 --> 0:25:16.359
<v Speaker 1>the defense wanted the jury to realize the connection is

0:25:16.359 --> 0:25:19.240
<v Speaker 1>a shaky one since William's parents and the owners of

0:25:19.320 --> 0:25:21.920
<v Speaker 1>the car, and uncle and aunt and thousands of other

0:25:22.000 --> 0:25:24.320
<v Speaker 1>people may have had those blood types and driven in

0:25:24.400 --> 0:25:26.639
<v Speaker 1>the car. But if you could get to the blood,

0:25:26.680 --> 0:25:29.159
<v Speaker 1>I think if I recall us within six weeks, you

0:25:29.240 --> 0:25:31.760
<v Speaker 1>can break it down even further. You get into an

0:25:31.960 --> 0:25:35.399
<v Speaker 1>enzyme factor. They were able to do that. Both of

0:25:35.440 --> 0:25:38.399
<v Speaker 1>those two victims had been stabbed within the last six weeks.

0:25:38.600 --> 0:25:41.200
<v Speaker 1>Both of the two bloodstains in the back seat of

0:25:41.200 --> 0:25:44.800
<v Speaker 1>Wayne Williams car. We're fresh enough to be able to

0:25:44.800 --> 0:25:50.520
<v Speaker 1>break them down into the enzyme factor both matched Barrett

0:25:50.800 --> 0:25:54.240
<v Speaker 1>and Porter. Prosecutors continued to close in with a connection.

0:25:54.680 --> 0:25:58.040
<v Speaker 1>The jury, listening carefully and taking notes, heard that both

0:25:58.119 --> 0:26:01.600
<v Speaker 1>Porter and Barrett had an enzyme type one. A further

0:26:01.680 --> 0:26:04.520
<v Speaker 1>breakdown of their blood samples, the panel then heard that

0:26:04.680 --> 0:26:08.200
<v Speaker 1>both stains in the car were enzyme type one. One

0:26:08.280 --> 0:26:11.639
<v Speaker 1>of them. According to the testimony in the trial, that

0:26:11.840 --> 0:26:16.120
<v Speaker 1>particular blood type an enzyme factor was found in only

0:26:16.280 --> 0:26:19.480
<v Speaker 1>seven percent I care remember of seven percent of males

0:26:19.600 --> 0:26:22.359
<v Speaker 1>or seven percent of African American males, but of seven

0:26:22.400 --> 0:26:27.840
<v Speaker 1>percent the other one was found in only talking percentages.

0:26:27.920 --> 0:26:30.520
<v Speaker 1>The witness has said only seven out of every one

0:26:30.960 --> 0:26:34.480
<v Speaker 1>people would have Porters type be enzyme type one, and

0:26:34.600 --> 0:26:37.359
<v Speaker 1>that twenty four out of every one people would have

0:26:37.520 --> 0:26:42.200
<v Speaker 1>Barratts type A enzyme type one. Two victims stabbed two

0:26:42.240 --> 0:26:46.320
<v Speaker 1>blood stains in his car, and they both match. It

0:26:46.480 --> 0:26:51.400
<v Speaker 1>was physical evidence. That's not really circumstantial evidence. That's physical evidence.

0:26:52.040 --> 0:26:56.160
<v Speaker 1>It's not a fingerprint, it's not a murder on a videotape.

0:26:56.800 --> 0:27:00.480
<v Speaker 1>But it was very strong evidence. I thought at the

0:27:00.600 --> 0:27:11.680
<v Speaker 1>end of that trial. Throughout my investigation, the case of

0:27:11.720 --> 0:27:15.040
<v Speaker 1>Clifford Jones kept popping up. Jones's case stands out in

0:27:15.080 --> 0:27:18.080
<v Speaker 1>particular because many people feel there's another viable suspect for

0:27:18.119 --> 0:27:22.280
<v Speaker 1>the murder aside from Wayne Williams. I first found Dwayne

0:27:22.280 --> 0:27:26.200
<v Speaker 1>Hendricks from a YouTube video of Clifford Jones's brother Emmanuel,

0:27:28.080 --> 0:27:32.560
<v Speaker 1>and your brother's name was Clifford Jones. It was one

0:27:32.640 --> 0:27:42.520
<v Speaker 1>earlier morning on the people had kidnapped my brother, man

0:27:42.640 --> 0:27:50.240
<v Speaker 1>named Jamie Brooks. Horrors hopgood Freda cos these guys helped

0:27:50.280 --> 0:27:54.320
<v Speaker 1>my brother captive in a laundron matt right on the

0:27:54.440 --> 0:27:59.920
<v Speaker 1>corner how Dole What road. Hours later he was found

0:28:00.080 --> 0:28:03.600
<v Speaker 1>near a dumpster behind them, all strangled, wrapped in plastic.

0:28:04.359 --> 0:28:07.960
<v Speaker 1>His brother was inside being beaten and raped all day

0:28:08.680 --> 0:28:11.359
<v Speaker 1>before they actually killed him. In dispose of his body.

0:28:12.080 --> 0:28:15.920
<v Speaker 1>An alleged eye witness described the strangling of Jones and

0:28:16.000 --> 0:28:19.880
<v Speaker 1>identified the strangler not Wayne Williams, but a man named

0:28:20.000 --> 0:28:23.880
<v Speaker 1>Jamie Brooks. He knewed Wayne Williams didn't kill his brother.

0:28:25.080 --> 0:28:30.160
<v Speaker 1>He knew that. And despite all that evidence, the task

0:28:30.240 --> 0:28:33.960
<v Speaker 1>force blamed Clifford Jones murder not on Jamie Brooks, but

0:28:34.080 --> 0:28:38.680
<v Speaker 1>on Wayne Williams. The investigators reviewing the case file on

0:28:38.800 --> 0:28:42.280
<v Speaker 1>Clifford Jones released to Channel two News under court order

0:28:42.520 --> 0:28:46.360
<v Speaker 1>a file containing statements from five eye witnesses who point

0:28:46.400 --> 0:28:49.400
<v Speaker 1>to a suspect other than Wayne Williams as the killer

0:28:49.480 --> 0:28:54.160
<v Speaker 1>of Jones. Jones's case also stood out to Fiber analyst

0:28:54.240 --> 0:28:57.800
<v Speaker 1>Larry Peterson. To Peterson, Jones's case was one of the

0:28:57.880 --> 0:29:01.840
<v Speaker 1>only puzzles you couldn't put together. Clifford Jones case became,

0:29:02.240 --> 0:29:04.160
<v Speaker 1>I think important in my mind one because it was

0:29:04.200 --> 0:29:06.080
<v Speaker 1>the first one I went to and it was the

0:29:06.160 --> 0:29:09.120
<v Speaker 1>one that seemed to be the submit the need the

0:29:09.200 --> 0:29:14.000
<v Speaker 1>former task force. At this crime scene, one of the

0:29:14.040 --> 0:29:17.080
<v Speaker 1>things I did was examined the body. Look around the body,

0:29:17.400 --> 0:29:19.720
<v Speaker 1>you know, are their tire prints are there? Shoot prints?

0:29:19.720 --> 0:29:22.560
<v Speaker 1>Are is there anything? But from a crime scene standpoint,

0:29:22.760 --> 0:29:28.040
<v Speaker 1>and literally there was nothing but the body itself. The

0:29:28.160 --> 0:29:31.120
<v Speaker 1>only things I had noticed and collected was over twenty

0:29:31.640 --> 0:29:35.960
<v Speaker 1>beige carpet fibers loose in his hair, on his skin,

0:29:36.360 --> 0:29:39.120
<v Speaker 1>on his clothes, and I collected him at the crime scene.

0:29:41.000 --> 0:29:44.240
<v Speaker 1>That was one of the fiber types that I'm convinced

0:29:44.560 --> 0:29:47.200
<v Speaker 1>is important because they were so loose and so many

0:29:47.600 --> 0:29:50.560
<v Speaker 1>they had to be tied to how his his body

0:29:50.640 --> 0:29:54.840
<v Speaker 1>got there. Whatever sample came in, that was one of

0:29:54.880 --> 0:29:57.040
<v Speaker 1>the ones I would always go. It was the green carpet.

0:29:57.160 --> 0:29:59.120
<v Speaker 1>There was some other things, but in his case, I

0:29:59.200 --> 0:30:01.480
<v Speaker 1>always looked for the his page carpet fibers on any

0:30:01.520 --> 0:30:06.240
<v Speaker 1>samples submitted for comparison, and actually through the trial they

0:30:06.360 --> 0:30:09.400
<v Speaker 1>never matched anything. So that was always kind of a

0:30:09.480 --> 0:30:11.920
<v Speaker 1>mystery fiber as to what, then where did they come from?

0:30:13.920 --> 0:30:17.560
<v Speaker 1>That had had bugged me through post trial. It always

0:30:17.600 --> 0:30:19.880
<v Speaker 1>had bugged me. The thing that I wanted to know

0:30:20.080 --> 0:30:23.400
<v Speaker 1>most was I wanted to know everything about what the

0:30:23.480 --> 0:30:27.800
<v Speaker 1>evidence meant. So a year after trial, to satisfy his

0:30:27.880 --> 0:30:32.400
<v Speaker 1>own professional and scientific curiosity, Very investigated further. You couldn't

0:30:32.400 --> 0:30:36.720
<v Speaker 1>reconcile these missing pieces. So they had put these records

0:30:36.840 --> 0:30:41.600
<v Speaker 1>into evidence that they had these three different for pharamontmonts

0:30:41.920 --> 0:30:45.920
<v Speaker 1>the family was getting using its rentals. This was news

0:30:46.000 --> 0:30:49.480
<v Speaker 1>to me. It turns out between seventy one the William

0:30:49.520 --> 0:30:51.959
<v Speaker 1>Stanley was in possession of at least six cars at

0:30:52.000 --> 0:30:55.680
<v Speaker 1>one time, or another three being rental cars. I was

0:30:55.880 --> 0:30:59.080
<v Speaker 1>at Fulton County about a year after the trial, and

0:30:59.160 --> 0:31:01.880
<v Speaker 1>I went by the Hill Attorney's office and talked to

0:31:01.960 --> 0:31:05.840
<v Speaker 1>Joe Drole, and I said, is there any way if

0:31:05.880 --> 0:31:08.640
<v Speaker 1>the defense put those real agreements into evidence, is it

0:31:08.720 --> 0:31:11.880
<v Speaker 1>possible I could get copies? So he supplied me with

0:31:12.000 --> 0:31:14.600
<v Speaker 1>copies of the real agreements, which include then numbers and

0:31:14.800 --> 0:31:17.640
<v Speaker 1>descriptions of the automobiles. So I took that and I

0:31:17.800 --> 0:31:21.720
<v Speaker 1>ran it through our Crime Information Center, through the Vehicle

0:31:21.760 --> 0:31:24.280
<v Speaker 1>Administration and came up with the fact that those had

0:31:24.360 --> 0:31:28.240
<v Speaker 1>been sold as used cars, and I had GBI agents

0:31:28.320 --> 0:31:32.560
<v Speaker 1>go to those locations collect trunk liner and floorboard fibers

0:31:32.600 --> 0:31:36.040
<v Speaker 1>from those three rental cars. In the meantime, I looked

0:31:36.040 --> 0:31:38.520
<v Speaker 1>at the time sequences and when the rental agreements were

0:31:39.120 --> 0:31:45.600
<v Speaker 1>and what victims disappeared in those time sequences. Clifford Jones

0:31:45.680 --> 0:31:50.000
<v Speaker 1>fell to the same time sequence. So when that fiber

0:31:50.120 --> 0:31:53.080
<v Speaker 1>sample came in from the trunk liner and from the floorboard,

0:31:53.680 --> 0:31:57.200
<v Speaker 1>the first thing I found was that there beige carpet

0:31:57.280 --> 0:32:02.040
<v Speaker 1>fibers in the floorboard of the rental car that matched

0:32:02.080 --> 0:32:08.600
<v Speaker 1>the Clifford. Wow, you know, I had a I had

0:32:08.640 --> 0:32:11.800
<v Speaker 1>a stronger case after the trial than I even did

0:32:12.120 --> 0:32:15.920
<v Speaker 1>during the trial. What he found during his investigation was

0:32:16.000 --> 0:32:18.480
<v Speaker 1>the base carpet fibers, the ones he could never match

0:32:18.560 --> 0:32:21.800
<v Speaker 1>before trial, the ones that link Clifford Jones to a

0:32:21.920 --> 0:32:27.640
<v Speaker 1>car in way William's possession. One of those things where

0:32:27.680 --> 0:32:31.680
<v Speaker 1>everything built on everything else that came after it. Nothing

0:32:31.760 --> 0:32:35.960
<v Speaker 1>ever eliminated him, nothing ever eliminated White. Everything we would

0:32:36.000 --> 0:32:39.480
<v Speaker 1>come to kept him in the ballpark. Lewis Layton said

0:32:39.480 --> 0:32:41.440
<v Speaker 1>at the beginning of the trial. It's a puzzle and

0:32:41.480 --> 0:32:43.960
<v Speaker 1>we're gonna put all the pieces together. And as you

0:32:44.400 --> 0:32:49.320
<v Speaker 1>watch that puzzle being filled in, they kind of answered

0:32:49.520 --> 0:32:52.560
<v Speaker 1>every question for the jury. So it's a case to

0:32:52.680 --> 0:32:56.520
<v Speaker 1>me that its strength was in the totality of all

0:32:56.600 --> 0:33:01.320
<v Speaker 1>of it. Does he have any defense Lloyds than anybody.

0:33:01.840 --> 0:33:04.520
<v Speaker 1>He had a good one for a while, Jack Jack

0:33:04.600 --> 0:33:08.600
<v Speaker 1>markin Jack Spit attorney. I think if Jack saw something

0:33:08.800 --> 0:33:11.400
<v Speaker 1>here or didn't see something here, that's why he's not

0:33:11.480 --> 0:33:13.960
<v Speaker 1>involved anybody. I think everybody's most interested in Wayne. They

0:33:14.040 --> 0:33:18.480
<v Speaker 1>realized that he's the right guy, you know. So it's

0:33:19.440 --> 0:33:21.479
<v Speaker 1>I don't see much happening on the Wayne Williams right.

0:33:22.440 --> 0:33:25.280
<v Speaker 1>The bridge made it, the fibers made it, the blood

0:33:25.400 --> 0:33:29.480
<v Speaker 1>made it, the eyewitnesses made it. It was everything. And

0:33:29.560 --> 0:33:31.520
<v Speaker 1>they told you what Wayne's life was and how it

0:33:31.600 --> 0:33:34.320
<v Speaker 1>fit into all this, of his taking these cars and

0:33:34.440 --> 0:33:36.800
<v Speaker 1>driving for hundreds and hundreds of miles, driving in the

0:33:37.080 --> 0:33:40.880
<v Speaker 1>late night, early morning hours, picking up young boys, going

0:33:40.920 --> 0:33:45.840
<v Speaker 1>to be a music producer, never really producing anything. They

0:33:45.960 --> 0:33:48.040
<v Speaker 1>gave the jury a picture of who this guy was.

0:33:50.040 --> 0:33:54.000
<v Speaker 1>The story of Wayne Williams is one story because he

0:33:54.200 --> 0:33:57.920
<v Speaker 1>was charged and convicted with the murder of adults. That's

0:33:58.160 --> 0:34:03.200
<v Speaker 1>one story. But the other story the children, the girls,

0:34:03.520 --> 0:34:07.640
<v Speaker 1>the boys who were murdered, who were dumped. How do

0:34:07.720 --> 0:34:10.920
<v Speaker 1>you introduce evidence from another crime that the defendant's not

0:34:11.120 --> 0:34:15.200
<v Speaker 1>charged with. Georgia law allows you to bring in what

0:34:15.320 --> 0:34:18.080
<v Speaker 1>they call a similar transaction. Was a two part test.

0:34:18.560 --> 0:34:21.200
<v Speaker 1>You had proved to a judge that there was some

0:34:21.320 --> 0:34:23.840
<v Speaker 1>evidence linking the defendant to the crime, and there was

0:34:23.920 --> 0:34:27.960
<v Speaker 1>some evidence that the crime would show a pattern, a

0:34:28.160 --> 0:34:33.120
<v Speaker 1>scheme and a bent of mind of that defendant. Oh

0:34:33.239 --> 0:34:36.360
<v Speaker 1>my god, this is what Lewis Layton's going to do

0:34:36.480 --> 0:34:40.359
<v Speaker 1>with Wayne Williams. And we're going to have the child

0:34:40.480 --> 0:34:43.839
<v Speaker 1>murder trial. It's not going to be Jimmy Ray Paine

0:34:43.840 --> 0:34:49.000
<v Speaker 1>and Nathaniel Cater. I would say that whatever law Louis

0:34:49.120 --> 0:34:53.279
<v Speaker 1>Layton used at that time period, it was probably the

0:34:53.360 --> 0:34:57.360
<v Speaker 1>most expedient thing to do. If there were enough similarities,

0:34:57.400 --> 0:35:00.160
<v Speaker 1>then just dump it all on one. And that not

0:35:00.280 --> 0:35:04.640
<v Speaker 1>criticizing Mr Slayton. It's just saying it appeared at that

0:35:04.960 --> 0:35:11.120
<v Speaker 1>time to be the best thing to do. It gave

0:35:11.239 --> 0:35:13.719
<v Speaker 1>the public and again it answered a question in the

0:35:13.800 --> 0:35:18.520
<v Speaker 1>jury's mind, what about the kids? And they gave I

0:35:18.719 --> 0:35:25.719
<v Speaker 1>believe Atlanta the child murder trial. As I said before,

0:35:25.800 --> 0:35:28.280
<v Speaker 1>God was anonymous and I won't seeing him know why witnesses.

0:35:29.320 --> 0:35:32.120
<v Speaker 1>It is amazing we convicted him without any eye witnesses

0:35:32.600 --> 0:35:35.239
<v Speaker 1>that a single person came forward. And the witnesses that

0:35:35.320 --> 0:35:38.440
<v Speaker 1>we had were very shaky at best. They thought they

0:35:38.480 --> 0:35:40.200
<v Speaker 1>saw this. They thought what they said that I was

0:35:40.239 --> 0:35:43.120
<v Speaker 1>not involved in the trial, but they but again it

0:35:43.239 --> 0:35:45.800
<v Speaker 1>was all Harris or Fibers, and today it would be

0:35:45.840 --> 0:35:53.040
<v Speaker 1>a very interesting case. Wayne Williams told reporters at a

0:35:53.080 --> 0:35:55.520
<v Speaker 1>press conference in June that he didn't know any of

0:35:55.560 --> 0:36:04.040
<v Speaker 1>the victims on the task force listn't associates, no family.

0:36:05.719 --> 0:36:09.080
<v Speaker 1>The state has witnesses that will place the victims with Williams.

0:36:09.160 --> 0:36:11.360
<v Speaker 1>The next door neighbor of the Williams did say he

0:36:11.440 --> 0:36:13.600
<v Speaker 1>saw Wayne the day the suspect was supposed to be

0:36:13.680 --> 0:36:16.600
<v Speaker 1>with victim Larry Rodgers. Two relatives of the victim said

0:36:16.840 --> 0:36:20.000
<v Speaker 1>Wayne Williams was seen with Barrett several months before his death.

0:36:20.080 --> 0:36:23.120
<v Speaker 1>More damaging testimony today from other witnesses who claimed to

0:36:23.239 --> 0:36:26.360
<v Speaker 1>have seen Cater alive on May one. One woman placed

0:36:26.400 --> 0:36:29.520
<v Speaker 1>the suspect with Terry Pew, but in April of last year.

0:36:29.840 --> 0:36:35.239
<v Speaker 1>Five months after Pew's body was found, Margaret Carter, a

0:36:35.320 --> 0:36:37.960
<v Speaker 1>woman who lives in northwest Atlanta, told the jury that

0:36:38.120 --> 0:36:41.239
<v Speaker 1>she saw Williams with victim Nathaniel Cater, and this for

0:36:41.400 --> 0:36:44.480
<v Speaker 1>Bena Street Park a week before Cater's body was found

0:36:44.520 --> 0:36:47.640
<v Speaker 1>in the Chattahoochee River, and the witness also said alongside

0:36:47.680 --> 0:36:50.640
<v Speaker 1>the two men was a German shepherd. But the person

0:36:50.719 --> 0:36:53.240
<v Speaker 1>who stood out as the most credible witness was this woman,

0:36:53.520 --> 0:36:56.040
<v Speaker 1>Nellie Trammell, who placed Wayne Williams in a car with

0:36:56.160 --> 0:36:59.440
<v Speaker 1>Larry Rogers, saying the slightly retarded man was slumped over

0:36:59.520 --> 0:37:01.920
<v Speaker 1>in the past in your seat. A week later, Roger's

0:37:01.960 --> 0:37:05.440
<v Speaker 1>body is found near Simpson Road. A lot of the

0:37:05.520 --> 0:37:09.960
<v Speaker 1>witnesses were unrelowed when people got to remember that this

0:37:10.160 --> 0:37:12.960
<v Speaker 1>case gave the trial that was a half million dollar

0:37:13.239 --> 0:37:17.040
<v Speaker 1>cares reward or information into the risk in conviction of

0:37:17.880 --> 0:37:20.960
<v Speaker 1>anyone associated with the Atlantic killing, and an obvious by

0:37:21.040 --> 0:37:25.000
<v Speaker 1>the testimony that these motivated when they thought that they

0:37:25.040 --> 0:37:28.680
<v Speaker 1>would be able to collect reward for the party. Ken

0:37:28.760 --> 0:37:31.520
<v Speaker 1>Lawson worked in the Task Force headquarters, answering phones and

0:37:31.560 --> 0:37:34.520
<v Speaker 1>writing reports, but Lawson was amazed to see Nellie travel

0:37:34.600 --> 0:37:37.600
<v Speaker 1>as a witness telling the jury the elderly woman was

0:37:37.640 --> 0:37:40.520
<v Speaker 1>almost a regular at Task Force headquarters who would sit

0:37:40.600 --> 0:37:43.720
<v Speaker 1>there for hours knitting. Every time a body was found,

0:37:43.960 --> 0:37:46.080
<v Speaker 1>she'd call about it. It got to the point, he

0:37:46.160 --> 0:37:49.000
<v Speaker 1>said that recruits would try and pass Nellie's calls off

0:37:49.040 --> 0:37:52.640
<v Speaker 1>to each other and the witnesses we're just playing wrong.

0:37:52.760 --> 0:37:54.960
<v Speaker 1>Like one guy was an eighty nine year old guy

0:37:55.360 --> 0:37:58.440
<v Speaker 1>who could not see an elderly man who may have

0:37:58.520 --> 0:38:01.280
<v Speaker 1>been discredited by the defense it's because of poor eyesight,

0:38:01.640 --> 0:38:05.560
<v Speaker 1>testified he saw Williams with paying last April, identified me

0:38:05.840 --> 0:38:08.800
<v Speaker 1>of poliper was Jimmy Ray pain on banking at Highway

0:38:09.080 --> 0:38:11.120
<v Speaker 1>from a business of a quarter a mile away, and

0:38:11.200 --> 0:38:13.759
<v Speaker 1>he couldn't even identify me any court rooms, so you know,

0:38:13.880 --> 0:38:16.560
<v Speaker 1>he was laughable. Another witness came into the courtroom an

0:38:16.560 --> 0:38:21.480
<v Speaker 1>admitted just before testifying, he had just smoke. Another witness

0:38:21.600 --> 0:38:24.960
<v Speaker 1>nicknamed Colbury, he's putting Williams with. Larry Rodgers, was an

0:38:24.960 --> 0:38:27.960
<v Speaker 1>admitted drug user and in fact told the jury he

0:38:28.080 --> 0:38:33.040
<v Speaker 1>had smoked marijuana before testifying. His credibility was strained and

0:38:33.280 --> 0:38:35.319
<v Speaker 1>he wasn't able to peeck me out on the witness stand,

0:38:35.400 --> 0:38:37.360
<v Speaker 1>so he pulls out a piece of paper on his pocket.

0:38:37.400 --> 0:38:39.440
<v Speaker 1>Say yeah, but I've seen this guy in the dow

0:38:39.480 --> 0:38:42.920
<v Speaker 1>this paper. You know, it was ridiculous, because ridiculous. The

0:38:43.080 --> 0:38:46.560
<v Speaker 1>other hand, you did have some witnesses pay or just

0:38:46.680 --> 0:38:49.520
<v Speaker 1>playing wrong in their association. With one of those witnesses,

0:38:49.800 --> 0:38:53.440
<v Speaker 1>Ken Hynes, but thought he so Joseph Dale better a

0:38:53.520 --> 0:38:57.200
<v Speaker 1>court studio that we had on Janior the third. Kent Hinzman,

0:38:57.280 --> 0:38:59.880
<v Speaker 1>a twenty four year old songwriter, says he spent more

0:39:00.080 --> 0:39:03.840
<v Speaker 1>to January third with Williams in this Buckhead recording studio,

0:39:04.040 --> 0:39:06.520
<v Speaker 1>and there with Williams was a teenager by the name

0:39:06.560 --> 0:39:09.760
<v Speaker 1>of Joseph Joe Joe Bell. I remember Joe Joe because

0:39:09.840 --> 0:39:12.759
<v Speaker 1>he came in and he uh, he's sang for fr

0:39:12.880 --> 0:39:15.680
<v Speaker 1>you know, he's sing a few tunes and he had

0:39:15.719 --> 0:39:18.520
<v Speaker 1>a very good voice, and I was asking Wayne where

0:39:18.560 --> 0:39:20.279
<v Speaker 1>was he gonna do it in. Wayne said he was

0:39:20.400 --> 0:39:23.279
<v Speaker 1>going to sign the guy to a contract immediately. And

0:39:23.360 --> 0:39:25.200
<v Speaker 1>at the same time you had another state with this

0:39:25.320 --> 0:39:28.280
<v Speaker 1>testified that she saw me with movie on that same

0:39:28.400 --> 0:39:32.399
<v Speaker 1>day as recording studio system was Hill. A middle aged

0:39:32.440 --> 0:39:35.160
<v Speaker 1>white woman, Ruth Warren, told the jury she also saw

0:39:35.239 --> 0:39:38.480
<v Speaker 1>Williams with Jeter the day the thirteen year old boy disappeared.

0:39:39.200 --> 0:39:42.400
<v Speaker 1>He provided an alibi for me because we were recorded.

0:39:42.440 --> 0:39:45.279
<v Speaker 1>She knew with bucket miles away up from where to

0:39:45.520 --> 0:39:49.040
<v Speaker 1>get here, so you had to stay. Witness is complicted

0:39:49.120 --> 0:39:52.080
<v Speaker 1>with each other, but the witness could not remember under

0:39:52.120 --> 0:40:09.239
<v Speaker 1>cross examination when she told police about the sighting over

0:40:09.320 --> 0:40:12.360
<v Speaker 1>this story to help y'all. Lot of whatever y'all podcast about.

0:40:12.360 --> 0:40:15.840
<v Speaker 1>It's cool, man, but this ship won't. What I'm telling y'all. Recently,

0:40:16.160 --> 0:40:18.319
<v Speaker 1>a man named Tony came to the office and told

0:40:18.360 --> 0:40:21.200
<v Speaker 1>me a story he's only ever told his family. I

0:40:21.239 --> 0:40:23.800
<v Speaker 1>ain't making none of this man. This ship real, n

0:40:23.840 --> 0:40:26.320
<v Speaker 1>ain't trying to get no nigger in trouble who ain't

0:40:26.480 --> 0:40:29.800
<v Speaker 1>shouldn't be talking about or putting no lies on nobody.

0:40:30.320 --> 0:40:36.640
<v Speaker 1>It's true facts. Man, My cousin, we was going to

0:40:36.719 --> 0:40:39.719
<v Speaker 1>the Lamba Zoo, so we ever rode the bikes over there.

0:40:41.760 --> 0:40:43.640
<v Speaker 1>We snuck into zoo a matter of fact, you know

0:40:43.640 --> 0:40:45.160
<v Speaker 1>what I'm saying, with to one of the back gates

0:40:45.200 --> 0:40:47.080
<v Speaker 1>where had turned one way or the other. You know,

0:40:47.280 --> 0:40:50.040
<v Speaker 1>we slid through. So we had chained our bikes up

0:40:50.080 --> 0:40:52.320
<v Speaker 1>by side and we came back out to do the

0:40:52.400 --> 0:40:56.160
<v Speaker 1>bikes were gone. We were based right does this post?

0:40:56.200 --> 0:40:57.640
<v Speaker 1>You know what I'm saying, More like how we're gonna

0:40:57.680 --> 0:41:00.560
<v Speaker 1>get back home? I was living there then the project

0:41:00.560 --> 0:41:03.080
<v Speaker 1>it was called Greater Homes. So I was walking back

0:41:03.160 --> 0:41:06.719
<v Speaker 1>across the park going back to Greater Homes, and out

0:41:06.719 --> 0:41:08.360
<v Speaker 1>of the blue, this guy came off the top of

0:41:08.440 --> 0:41:12.319
<v Speaker 1>the hill. He was like, Hey, what's going on? Hey

0:41:12.400 --> 0:41:15.160
<v Speaker 1>y'all doing you're you're you're okay? I was like, yeah,

0:41:15.200 --> 0:41:17.160
<v Speaker 1>we find said somebody ha stole my bi silk of

0:41:17.200 --> 0:41:18.440
<v Speaker 1>you know what I'm saying. We was over at the

0:41:18.520 --> 0:41:20.880
<v Speaker 1>zoo and then we gotta walk back home. So he

0:41:21.000 --> 0:41:24.160
<v Speaker 1>was like you need a ride? Like now, we're good,

0:41:24.200 --> 0:41:25.880
<v Speaker 1>we we can walk. You know what I'm Sayings like, well,

0:41:25.960 --> 0:41:28.440
<v Speaker 1>my dad on this church is the pastor of this

0:41:28.560 --> 0:41:31.120
<v Speaker 1>church over here. It was like a the housing area

0:41:31.160 --> 0:41:32.799
<v Speaker 1>and I'm since I had remember that church because had

0:41:32.880 --> 0:41:35.480
<v Speaker 1>been over there. So I was like, yeah, I've been

0:41:35.560 --> 0:41:37.040
<v Speaker 1>to that church before, you know what I'm saying. So

0:41:37.280 --> 0:41:39.920
<v Speaker 1>so he's like, yeah, my dad is a pastor. He

0:41:40.000 --> 0:41:41.799
<v Speaker 1>said he'll take your home. Y'all. Ain't got to walk

0:41:41.840 --> 0:41:43.120
<v Speaker 1>all the way back to the Greater Home. You know

0:41:43.160 --> 0:41:44.600
<v Speaker 1>what I'm saying. I was like, well cool then, so

0:41:45.040 --> 0:41:47.719
<v Speaker 1>we was following him back to the church. I think

0:41:47.800 --> 0:41:51.560
<v Speaker 1>his dad is on to us a ride. Instead of

0:41:51.600 --> 0:41:53.640
<v Speaker 1>him taking us straight across the street to the church,

0:41:53.960 --> 0:41:55.759
<v Speaker 1>where he took up to the street and took us

0:41:55.840 --> 0:41:58.040
<v Speaker 1>up a pathway in the back of the houses that

0:41:58.160 --> 0:41:59.879
<v Speaker 1>we were along the street that led to the church.

0:42:00.360 --> 0:42:02.480
<v Speaker 1>That's when things tarted to feel a little weird. Why

0:42:02.480 --> 0:42:05.600
<v Speaker 1>are you Why are you taking up this way? I

0:42:05.719 --> 0:42:07.880
<v Speaker 1>kind of felt kind officient about while he took up

0:42:07.920 --> 0:42:10.000
<v Speaker 1>through this pathway. So by the time we got back

0:42:10.040 --> 0:42:11.920
<v Speaker 1>on the open the weather whether the church set off

0:42:11.960 --> 0:42:14.120
<v Speaker 1>the street, it's a car Paul back now. So he

0:42:14.239 --> 0:42:16.040
<v Speaker 1>was more like, y'all gonna get in the car and

0:42:16.480 --> 0:42:18.160
<v Speaker 1>get my dad, and my daddy gonna take y'all know.

0:42:18.320 --> 0:42:19.640
<v Speaker 1>So I was like, no, we're just gonna wait till

0:42:19.640 --> 0:42:22.080
<v Speaker 1>your dad to come, you know what I'm saying. The

0:42:22.160 --> 0:42:25.560
<v Speaker 1>man got anty and aggressive, and Tony knew something wasn't right.

0:42:26.000 --> 0:42:28.760
<v Speaker 1>He had to get out of there. So I like, anyway,

0:42:28.760 --> 0:42:30.040
<v Speaker 1>I gotta pee, you know what I'm saying. So I

0:42:30.120 --> 0:42:32.720
<v Speaker 1>piste on the side of the car. So my cousin

0:42:32.760 --> 0:42:35.759
<v Speaker 1>Bobo would like standing by the car beside me, and

0:42:35.880 --> 0:42:37.400
<v Speaker 1>he was telling my cup were you're just going to

0:42:37.480 --> 0:42:39.400
<v Speaker 1>get in, you know what I'm saying. So he was like, no,

0:42:39.520 --> 0:42:41.239
<v Speaker 1>I we ain't gonna get in, just gonna get your dad,

0:42:41.320 --> 0:42:43.000
<v Speaker 1>you know what I'm saying. So he started looking around.

0:42:43.600 --> 0:42:45.400
<v Speaker 1>When he stepped back to the car, ga he had

0:42:45.440 --> 0:42:49.160
<v Speaker 1>opened the car door. That's where he got aggressive. It's

0:42:49.160 --> 0:42:51.840
<v Speaker 1>holding me in a change. It's my old theory was

0:42:51.920 --> 0:42:56.520
<v Speaker 1>get us in this car. It turned from my dad's

0:42:56.560 --> 0:42:58.719
<v Speaker 1>and take your holy y'all, get your motherfucker' dad. And

0:42:58.760 --> 0:43:05.839
<v Speaker 1>this goddamn call. He had grabbed us in the back

0:43:05.880 --> 0:43:08.480
<v Speaker 1>of a church where nobody was around. He tried to

0:43:08.560 --> 0:43:11.320
<v Speaker 1>throw us in the car. For him to try and

0:43:11.400 --> 0:43:13.680
<v Speaker 1>get two at a time was a tax. So when

0:43:13.719 --> 0:43:15.719
<v Speaker 1>we tried to break through, when we started hitting on him,

0:43:15.960 --> 0:43:18.960
<v Speaker 1>and he couldn't let one get away and keep one,

0:43:19.440 --> 0:43:20.960
<v Speaker 1>and so he had to reach it two people in

0:43:21.000 --> 0:43:24.160
<v Speaker 1>two different direction. That's how we broke away. He lost

0:43:24.200 --> 0:43:28.000
<v Speaker 1>grill for one lost grip or we split it up,

0:43:29.920 --> 0:43:31.960
<v Speaker 1>and so I ran one way and my cousin ran

0:43:32.040 --> 0:43:33.880
<v Speaker 1>back the way we came. And I look back and

0:43:33.920 --> 0:43:35.480
<v Speaker 1>I'm right, I don't see nobody to hid me so

0:43:35.520 --> 0:43:38.080
<v Speaker 1>I'm thinking he probably got my cousin. So I'm running

0:43:38.120 --> 0:43:40.680
<v Speaker 1>up street crying, get way up down, you know what

0:43:40.680 --> 0:43:42.440
<v Speaker 1>I'm saying. Then all of a sudden, my cousin come out.

0:43:42.560 --> 0:43:44.719
<v Speaker 1>He pop up. I SAI out there, you get away,

0:43:44.719 --> 0:43:46.279
<v Speaker 1>he said, shot. I just kipt running. He ain't come

0:43:46.400 --> 0:43:50.960
<v Speaker 1>hid me. So I went back to the house. I

0:43:51.080 --> 0:43:53.160
<v Speaker 1>was telling my mom's I was like, I just tried

0:43:53.200 --> 0:43:56.080
<v Speaker 1>to throw us in the car, tried to kidnap us.

0:43:57.120 --> 0:43:58.839
<v Speaker 1>So I took him where the coach paul. I took

0:43:58.880 --> 0:44:01.680
<v Speaker 1>away where he took us to, and the car was gone,

0:44:01.760 --> 0:44:04.360
<v Speaker 1>you know what I'm saying. So the only description I

0:44:04.480 --> 0:44:07.080
<v Speaker 1>had then that he kind of favored my brother five

0:44:07.239 --> 0:44:10.160
<v Speaker 1>six five seven, you know what I'm saying. With glasses,

0:44:11.160 --> 0:44:13.359
<v Speaker 1>Tony told his mother that the dangerous man that tried

0:44:13.400 --> 0:44:15.600
<v Speaker 1>to abduct him looks kind of like his own brother,

0:44:16.080 --> 0:44:19.520
<v Speaker 1>a black man with bushy hair and glasses. At first,

0:44:19.920 --> 0:44:22.959
<v Speaker 1>the man was nameless, but then Tony sold the news.

0:44:25.440 --> 0:44:27.759
<v Speaker 1>In a year or so went back. My mama was

0:44:27.840 --> 0:44:29.640
<v Speaker 1>looking at it on the news and I was like,

0:44:30.160 --> 0:44:32.040
<v Speaker 1>that's the same guy who tried to grab both mom.

0:44:33.600 --> 0:44:35.960
<v Speaker 1>The guy who did it, I remember his face clearly

0:44:37.600 --> 0:44:40.160
<v Speaker 1>everything came together and I saw his face. I knew

0:44:40.200 --> 0:44:47.480
<v Speaker 1>that was him Way Williams. And so she was like,

0:44:47.560 --> 0:44:49.560
<v Speaker 1>you shure, I said, that's him. Might never get that guy?

0:44:49.600 --> 0:44:51.200
<v Speaker 1>Say you remember I told he looked just like Read.

0:44:51.280 --> 0:44:52.640
<v Speaker 1>And I said, now, don't he looked like Read? And

0:44:52.680 --> 0:44:54.239
<v Speaker 1>she was like, yeah, he do. Favorite in a little

0:44:54.239 --> 0:44:56.040
<v Speaker 1>bit like that said, I never get the face we

0:44:56.440 --> 0:44:59.560
<v Speaker 1>cause we fought with him, and there ain't no mistaken

0:44:59.600 --> 0:45:02.280
<v Speaker 1>and no I identity there. You know, I can picture

0:45:02.320 --> 0:45:04.960
<v Speaker 1>that whole day clearly. And I looked this man in

0:45:05.080 --> 0:45:06.600
<v Speaker 1>his face. You know what I'm saying. This man tried

0:45:06.640 --> 0:45:08.759
<v Speaker 1>to do man and and I know he tried to

0:45:08.840 --> 0:45:10.000
<v Speaker 1>do it though you know what I'm saying, one like

0:45:10.120 --> 0:45:12.640
<v Speaker 1>he was playing him. He got real serious, you know,

0:45:12.800 --> 0:45:15.920
<v Speaker 1>So he tried to put us in this car. In hindsight,

0:45:16.160 --> 0:45:20.680
<v Speaker 1>Tony realized the man's gestures were actually manipulative and calculated charm. Way,

0:45:20.680 --> 0:45:23.279
<v Speaker 1>don't we pray without suspicion. If I would have been

0:45:23.360 --> 0:45:26.719
<v Speaker 1>by myself, he probably would have killed me. He might

0:45:26.760 --> 0:45:28.719
<v Speaker 1>have took all bites. He might have saw his colm

0:45:28.800 --> 0:45:31.840
<v Speaker 1>down and took our bicycles. So he knew that we

0:45:31.920 --> 0:45:35.080
<v Speaker 1>were gonna have to walk back. He could have killed me.

0:45:36.520 --> 0:45:38.759
<v Speaker 1>People believe different type of ways. You know what I'm saying.

0:45:38.760 --> 0:45:40.200
<v Speaker 1>But I know for a fact what he tried to

0:45:40.239 --> 0:45:42.400
<v Speaker 1>do to me, and I know how caring in and

0:45:42.480 --> 0:45:44.640
<v Speaker 1>conniv here. It ain't never going to trick somebody in

0:45:44.680 --> 0:45:47.680
<v Speaker 1>the car with him. To Tony, it all made sense

0:45:48.320 --> 0:45:50.839
<v Speaker 1>all the stories about Wayne Williams. He says he saw

0:45:50.920 --> 0:45:53.840
<v Speaker 1>it firsthand. He wasn't coming at you like a monster.

0:45:54.160 --> 0:45:57.520
<v Speaker 1>He was coming to you like a friend, you know,

0:45:58.200 --> 0:46:00.239
<v Speaker 1>to get your trust, to get you in there call.

0:46:00.640 --> 0:46:02.040
<v Speaker 1>You know what I'm saying. That's why he did what

0:46:02.080 --> 0:46:04.800
<v Speaker 1>he did for so long, acause he made no scene

0:46:04.880 --> 0:46:07.680
<v Speaker 1>doing what he was doing. It was so normal how

0:46:07.760 --> 0:46:11.960
<v Speaker 1>he'll get you in that call with nobody recognize. I've

0:46:11.960 --> 0:46:14.120
<v Speaker 1>seen how he tried to do us. You probably need

0:46:14.160 --> 0:46:17.680
<v Speaker 1>to been talking to me today. Real told I don't

0:46:17.680 --> 0:46:20.440
<v Speaker 1>say I'm telling real. I ain't got I ain't benefiting

0:46:20.480 --> 0:46:23.200
<v Speaker 1>nothing from this. You know what I'm saying. My family

0:46:23.280 --> 0:46:26.520
<v Speaker 1>knew about this. I don't talk about this. Nobody ain't

0:46:26.560 --> 0:46:30.000
<v Speaker 1>come at you like no no beasts to get your attention.

0:46:31.120 --> 0:46:32.920
<v Speaker 1>He put up a hitching the here the babyball back

0:46:32.960 --> 0:46:35.040
<v Speaker 1>and throw you in truck and how he worked. Now

0:46:35.120 --> 0:46:37.520
<v Speaker 1>they was already from a low end call family problem.

0:46:37.640 --> 0:46:39.800
<v Speaker 1>Ain't had too much food in the house, you know

0:46:39.840 --> 0:46:45.480
<v Speaker 1>what I'm saying, Anything but swam a canon ball ice cream. Man.

0:46:45.560 --> 0:46:49.200
<v Speaker 1>Ain't got no remorse. Man, don't kill you, know what

0:46:49.239 --> 0:46:52.280
<v Speaker 1>I'm saying. He ain't sitting back in prison really crying.

0:46:52.400 --> 0:46:55.680
<v Speaker 1>He's innocent. He ain't really fighting that hard to let

0:46:55.760 --> 0:46:58.719
<v Speaker 1>folk know he need to be out of prison. He's

0:46:58.760 --> 0:47:01.160
<v Speaker 1>just doing his time because they know he killed the

0:47:01.200 --> 0:47:04.040
<v Speaker 1>mother church. They just can't prove it he did that. Man,

0:47:04.160 --> 0:47:08.239
<v Speaker 1>he's a monster, I know him, master killing a lot

0:47:08.280 --> 0:47:20.560
<v Speaker 1>of babies. Know what I'm saying. She's sad man. I

0:47:20.640 --> 0:47:22.239
<v Speaker 1>thought it was only fair to share this story with

0:47:22.320 --> 0:47:25.200
<v Speaker 1>Wayne to see what he said about it. Tony made

0:47:25.200 --> 0:47:28.120
<v Speaker 1>a lot of bold claims, but very convincingly. I asked

0:47:28.160 --> 0:47:30.920
<v Speaker 1>Wayne for his take. He Uh, He came into my

0:47:31.000 --> 0:47:33.560
<v Speaker 1>office a few days ago and he told me that

0:47:34.239 --> 0:47:37.640
<v Speaker 1>he thinks that you tried to abduct him and his

0:47:37.760 --> 0:47:41.560
<v Speaker 1>cousin at the back of a church, A pack of

0:47:41.640 --> 0:47:43.960
<v Speaker 1>a what back of a church. He said that the

0:47:44.080 --> 0:47:47.520
<v Speaker 1>man said his dad was a pastor at the church.

0:47:48.680 --> 0:47:53.000
<v Speaker 1>That's ridiculously you know. That's that's one thing about this tribe.

0:47:53.040 --> 0:47:56.280
<v Speaker 1>You've got people who who call forth with these stories

0:47:56.520 --> 0:47:59.560
<v Speaker 1>after the back. And you've got to remember, after my

0:47:59.680 --> 0:48:02.040
<v Speaker 1>picture was blasted all over the news on June the fourth,

0:48:02.120 --> 0:48:04.719
<v Speaker 1>You've had all types of people coming forced and I

0:48:04.800 --> 0:48:06.920
<v Speaker 1>know this guy. On My point is why were these

0:48:06.960 --> 0:48:10.760
<v Speaker 1>people before? Why were these people when these incidents happened.

0:48:11.239 --> 0:48:14.680
<v Speaker 1>You know at the time that they could not identify anybody. Now,

0:48:14.760 --> 0:48:16.840
<v Speaker 1>I'm not saying that somebody may not have tried to

0:48:17.320 --> 0:48:19.839
<v Speaker 1>abduct these people at all, but for what I'm saying

0:48:19.960 --> 0:48:22.320
<v Speaker 1>is that there's enough signs to togetherness. We know the

0:48:22.480 --> 0:48:25.840
<v Speaker 1>data prove that that witness testimony could be painted and

0:48:25.960 --> 0:48:29.560
<v Speaker 1>influenced by publicity after the fact. And that's no doubt

0:48:29.640 --> 0:48:31.560
<v Speaker 1>what happened in this case. And a lot with a

0:48:31.600 --> 0:48:36.760
<v Speaker 1>lot of these witnesses true, absolutely not. You know, that's

0:48:36.840 --> 0:48:39.959
<v Speaker 1>ridiculous right there. You know, I don't even know these people,

0:48:40.080 --> 0:48:42.960
<v Speaker 1>and and and here we are years later. You know,

0:48:43.000 --> 0:48:45.440
<v Speaker 1>I hear stories like that. You know, again, we've heard

0:48:45.480 --> 0:48:47.799
<v Speaker 1>it all from the years. But my point is, if

0:48:47.840 --> 0:48:49.399
<v Speaker 1>it was true, of these people would have come out

0:48:49.480 --> 0:48:53.759
<v Speaker 1>a long time ago. One thing I developed over the

0:48:53.840 --> 0:48:56.399
<v Speaker 1>years from from this thing paint, I developed a tough skin.

0:48:56.520 --> 0:48:59.160
<v Speaker 1>I've heard everything I've heard, even the jokes and everything.

0:48:59.239 --> 0:49:02.200
<v Speaker 1>You know, I've heard it all. But that that doesn't

0:49:02.239 --> 0:49:05.160
<v Speaker 1>phaze my results getting you out, you know, because the

0:49:05.280 --> 0:49:08.920
<v Speaker 1>fact is is that you know, I'm in of what

0:49:09.120 --> 0:49:12.360
<v Speaker 1>happened in Atlanta, Georgia, and that's that's the same focus

0:49:12.440 --> 0:49:19.560
<v Speaker 1>that I've got to have right now. But Tony story

0:49:19.800 --> 0:49:22.319
<v Speaker 1>wasn't the only one I was told. There was one more.

0:49:23.840 --> 0:49:25.879
<v Speaker 1>Don't be his lawyer. You know what I'm saying, Don't

0:49:25.920 --> 0:49:28.719
<v Speaker 1>be his savior, Don't be his guard. You know what

0:49:28.719 --> 0:49:30.959
<v Speaker 1>I'm saying, because I know what I've seen my own eyes.

0:49:33.239 --> 0:49:35.000
<v Speaker 1>At this time, I was staying on one side of

0:49:35.040 --> 0:49:37.080
<v Speaker 1>the town, the bank Heads side of the town, and

0:49:37.200 --> 0:49:40.680
<v Speaker 1>we had moved from Grand Paul and Unstead State there.

0:49:40.760 --> 0:49:42.799
<v Speaker 1>So once sign that I went over there to play

0:49:42.840 --> 0:49:45.440
<v Speaker 1>with my cousin, they'll make grand problems at Grandpaul playing.

0:49:45.480 --> 0:49:47.880
<v Speaker 1>Then when I left, instead of me waiting on the

0:49:47.920 --> 0:49:50.560
<v Speaker 1>bus at Nana Avenue, I went up by Atlanta Food

0:49:50.600 --> 0:49:52.719
<v Speaker 1>and County Stadium and I was sitting in the bus

0:49:52.760 --> 0:49:55.520
<v Speaker 1>stout waiting on the bus. And then a bit blue

0:49:55.600 --> 0:49:57.680
<v Speaker 1>Chevrolet pool up stopped in the middle of the street

0:49:57.840 --> 0:49:59.279
<v Speaker 1>and he left the one of that. He's a can

0:49:59.320 --> 0:50:01.680
<v Speaker 1>you tell him matter the mother Luther King? He said,

0:50:01.680 --> 0:50:03.799
<v Speaker 1>what what you stayed? I said, when I stay on bank, kid,

0:50:03.920 --> 0:50:05.680
<v Speaker 1>But you know what I'm saying, I'm gonna get rid

0:50:05.680 --> 0:50:07.040
<v Speaker 1>of going. He said, I get your ride. That's not

0:50:07.160 --> 0:50:11.520
<v Speaker 1>only eating nor ride. I sat back down in the booth,

0:50:11.600 --> 0:50:13.239
<v Speaker 1>you know what I'm saying. So I heard some car TiAl,

0:50:14.800 --> 0:50:16.640
<v Speaker 1>so I get back up in lootle. He whipped the

0:50:16.680 --> 0:50:18.680
<v Speaker 1>car around in the middle of the street. You know something,

0:50:18.680 --> 0:50:20.120
<v Speaker 1>But this is on the sun in front of food

0:50:20.120 --> 0:50:23.200
<v Speaker 1>and Counter stadium. Wasn't no game, so buses run slow,

0:50:23.560 --> 0:50:26.080
<v Speaker 1>ain't halding nobody, you know, moving something like I ain't

0:50:26.080 --> 0:50:28.080
<v Speaker 1>no more car coming back. So he w back up

0:50:28.120 --> 0:50:30.759
<v Speaker 1>by the bus stop and right up on the side walk,

0:50:30.800 --> 0:50:32.640
<v Speaker 1>you know, saying. So I jump up and I was

0:50:32.680 --> 0:50:34.680
<v Speaker 1>looking at the sketch. I was looking at the sketching

0:50:34.719 --> 0:50:36.600
<v Speaker 1>and back of my mind like this, ain't dude be

0:50:36.680 --> 0:50:38.200
<v Speaker 1>on TV, Like you know what I mean. So I

0:50:38.280 --> 0:50:40.879
<v Speaker 1>stood up and looked and at first I did jump back,

0:50:41.000 --> 0:50:43.000
<v Speaker 1>like is there for real? I'm looking at him? And

0:50:43.120 --> 0:50:45.040
<v Speaker 1>he stepped out with one leg and the little at

0:50:45.080 --> 0:50:46.759
<v Speaker 1>frow stick up in there. He looked me dead in

0:50:46.840 --> 0:50:49.480
<v Speaker 1>the favorite the glasses on. I'm like, bro, I really

0:50:49.520 --> 0:50:51.719
<v Speaker 1>got to be kidding because they already saying they're looking

0:50:51.760 --> 0:50:53.959
<v Speaker 1>for you. You know what I'm saying. And you steal

0:50:54.000 --> 0:50:57.560
<v Speaker 1>a lot playing And I had told him I didn't

0:50:57.560 --> 0:50:59.480
<v Speaker 1>eat no ride, and I had told him what Mother

0:50:59.600 --> 0:51:01.879
<v Speaker 1>the King was, and if you're from Atlanta, he didn't

0:51:01.880 --> 0:51:04.000
<v Speaker 1>really have to turn around right now. He could have

0:51:04.040 --> 0:51:05.560
<v Speaker 1>went down to the red light, made it right, and

0:51:05.640 --> 0:51:08.920
<v Speaker 1>went to Mother the King. When he pulled the car around,

0:51:08.960 --> 0:51:11.160
<v Speaker 1>he pulled up on the sidewalk like he was trying

0:51:11.200 --> 0:51:17.400
<v Speaker 1>to kidnap me. I can't be the judge of what

0:51:17.600 --> 0:51:20.239
<v Speaker 1>Wayne did. But the only thing I can say with

0:51:20.440 --> 0:51:22.600
<v Speaker 1>somebody to say he didn't kill out them churus. And

0:51:22.640 --> 0:51:25.160
<v Speaker 1>that's why I'll be standing him saying today, Waite pumped

0:51:25.200 --> 0:51:30.319
<v Speaker 1>your brakes. Everybody in the project. I knew they were poked.

0:51:30.400 --> 0:51:33.480
<v Speaker 1>So we didn't fight each other like they do now.

0:51:33.840 --> 0:51:35.920
<v Speaker 1>Gangs him. Now, we didn't fight each other like in

0:51:36.040 --> 0:51:38.640
<v Speaker 1>front of the project. You poled like me, you got

0:51:38.719 --> 0:51:41.440
<v Speaker 1>no reason to fight. But if we hear something about Wayne,

0:51:41.480 --> 0:51:45.520
<v Speaker 1>we're gonna your mom's gonna call my mom. Door neighbor said, Wayne,

0:51:45.560 --> 0:51:48.320
<v Speaker 1>why don't you trying to get her song? That was

0:51:48.400 --> 0:51:51.520
<v Speaker 1>the conversation man. Then, yeah, they were saying Wayne william

0:51:51.600 --> 0:51:55.000
<v Speaker 1>They weren't saying no man in the blue cold Wayne Williams.

0:51:56.280 --> 0:51:59.799
<v Speaker 1>They would call him by their name, so they did.

0:52:00.200 --> 0:52:03.759
<v Speaker 1>It's real to me, I ain't you ain't offer me

0:52:03.840 --> 0:52:07.760
<v Speaker 1>no money, You don't offer me nothing. I'm did telling

0:52:07.800 --> 0:52:10.239
<v Speaker 1>you what happened for real. You know what I'm saying.

0:52:11.120 --> 0:52:14.879
<v Speaker 1>We was already as kids, preparing for if he came.

0:52:14.920 --> 0:52:17.080
<v Speaker 1>And when he came, you know what I mean. No,

0:52:17.280 --> 0:52:19.880
<v Speaker 1>guys started buying a little pocket knives and stuff, you know,

0:52:20.040 --> 0:52:22.600
<v Speaker 1>like get a piece of glass and wrap it up

0:52:22.640 --> 0:52:24.560
<v Speaker 1>in the napkin, put in your pocket, like you know,

0:52:24.719 --> 0:52:26.600
<v Speaker 1>you ever got in trouble or somebody to pull up

0:52:26.640 --> 0:52:31.080
<v Speaker 1>and try to get you, that was your weapon. I

0:52:31.200 --> 0:52:34.120
<v Speaker 1>mean you listen, man, listen. I'm not trying to debate

0:52:35.000 --> 0:52:38.160
<v Speaker 1>with nobody, never about what I've seen or what happened

0:52:38.200 --> 0:52:41.120
<v Speaker 1>to me. So you know what I'm saying. I don't

0:52:41.120 --> 0:52:44.000
<v Speaker 1>eat nobody runn up for me. Twenty year later saying

0:52:44.040 --> 0:52:47.120
<v Speaker 1>what you see Wayne? You know? But I know what

0:52:47.280 --> 0:52:48.880
<v Speaker 1>I've seen. I don't have to keep on trying to

0:52:48.960 --> 0:52:51.719
<v Speaker 1>rehash it like I'm trying to convince nobody. You know

0:52:51.760 --> 0:52:54.240
<v Speaker 1>what I'm saying. I know Wayne, I don't see Waine

0:52:54.320 --> 0:52:59.200
<v Speaker 1>since then. You know, shook Waine hands just to get

0:52:59.280 --> 0:53:01.880
<v Speaker 1>in front of him. Like, bro, you know seeing me

0:53:02.000 --> 0:53:11.560
<v Speaker 1>before eight and nine, I was a young you know,

0:53:11.600 --> 0:53:14.040
<v Speaker 1>a little young rich dude that doesn't cut my fur dope.

0:53:14.080 --> 0:53:17.239
<v Speaker 1>Kay went down the road and uh man, they put

0:53:17.320 --> 0:53:18.919
<v Speaker 1>some dope on. But you know what I'm saying, They said,

0:53:18.960 --> 0:53:20.680
<v Speaker 1>dude up in the love library, but help you out.

0:53:20.719 --> 0:53:23.080
<v Speaker 1>When I went up there and seeing who it wolves,

0:53:23.160 --> 0:53:24.480
<v Speaker 1>you know it kind of I w was not not

0:53:24.680 --> 0:53:26.239
<v Speaker 1>came there and work on mine cave. You know what

0:53:26.280 --> 0:53:36.879
<v Speaker 1>I'm saying, Like that would just me Waine were working

0:53:36.920 --> 0:53:39.160
<v Speaker 1>in what they call the live library. No, wa ain't

0:53:39.200 --> 0:53:41.759
<v Speaker 1>in there. He doesn't kind of trick the folks saying

0:53:41.840 --> 0:53:44.440
<v Speaker 1>like I'm small, let me work in the long library.

0:53:44.600 --> 0:53:46.279
<v Speaker 1>So when you go in the long library, you got

0:53:46.400 --> 0:53:48.799
<v Speaker 1>the dope case. We ain't making friend with the dope

0:53:48.840 --> 0:53:51.879
<v Speaker 1>boys because he needs really protection, you know what I'm saying.

0:53:51.880 --> 0:53:53.880
<v Speaker 1>Like if I get in Google something of y'all, I

0:53:53.920 --> 0:53:55.440
<v Speaker 1>can get the rest of the folks on my back

0:53:55.480 --> 0:53:57.960
<v Speaker 1>because everybody got keen people in him. He is like

0:53:58.120 --> 0:54:00.480
<v Speaker 1>to Pope, people's lawyer. But here get in there with

0:54:00.560 --> 0:54:02.680
<v Speaker 1>the books and the entertain You see him he reading

0:54:02.719 --> 0:54:05.000
<v Speaker 1>the book, but you had guys in there who didn't

0:54:05.000 --> 0:54:06.360
<v Speaker 1>how I low your mind? And so I was like,

0:54:06.880 --> 0:54:08.560
<v Speaker 1>I'm some heart. You know I don't find to go

0:54:08.600 --> 0:54:11.160
<v Speaker 1>to college. So I started working on my own case.

0:54:11.200 --> 0:54:13.799
<v Speaker 1>So I'm sitting there. Way ain't just like y'all sitting there,

0:54:13.920 --> 0:54:15.600
<v Speaker 1>not that it made Wayne. You know, I'm saying, like

0:54:16.400 --> 0:54:19.160
<v Speaker 1>he kept nobody in my family or got people saying

0:54:19.200 --> 0:54:20.680
<v Speaker 1>he didn't do it. You know what I'm saying. So

0:54:21.239 --> 0:54:23.200
<v Speaker 1>so when you see you and said what you're here

0:54:23.239 --> 0:54:24.960
<v Speaker 1>for a little bro, you know what I'm saying that

0:54:25.080 --> 0:54:28.080
<v Speaker 1>you might not know he ain't William. You'd be like, man,

0:54:28.160 --> 0:54:29.719
<v Speaker 1>they're playing it some dope on me. You know what

0:54:29.719 --> 0:54:31.680
<v Speaker 1>I'm saying. That's how you broke when you're they're playing

0:54:31.719 --> 0:54:33.359
<v Speaker 1>it some dope on me. That wouldn't need my dope.

0:54:34.080 --> 0:54:35.759
<v Speaker 1>They were right up his atlet Oh. Now I can

0:54:35.800 --> 0:54:38.320
<v Speaker 1>work on his case and being my friendship U and

0:54:38.360 --> 0:54:40.919
<v Speaker 1>I can get people to stop saying I'm gonna killer.

0:54:42.480 --> 0:54:44.399
<v Speaker 1>So with Wayne would do a look over your case

0:54:44.480 --> 0:54:47.040
<v Speaker 1>for you your mean and be like, yeah, we're gonna

0:54:47.040 --> 0:54:50.240
<v Speaker 1>find this heyper crepy right here and get your case overturned.

0:54:50.280 --> 0:54:52.840
<v Speaker 1>You're gonna go home. So Wayne was in the hipping

0:54:52.880 --> 0:54:56.440
<v Speaker 1>people when you and now Wayne is your friend because

0:54:56.520 --> 0:55:03.640
<v Speaker 1>guess who is your enemate? The system? Everybody isn't ever

0:55:03.760 --> 0:55:05.759
<v Speaker 1>like when I see him, I'm gonna kill him. And

0:55:05.840 --> 0:55:08.000
<v Speaker 1>see if you got that one children missing? You got

0:55:08.160 --> 0:55:10.000
<v Speaker 1>that man? You got thirty four k folks in the

0:55:10.440 --> 0:55:12.920
<v Speaker 1>cools and their threws and brothers. When I see him,

0:55:12.960 --> 0:55:15.040
<v Speaker 1>I'm just gonna chok him. You know what I'm saying.

0:55:15.200 --> 0:55:17.040
<v Speaker 1>You know, but they couldn't get to him like that,

0:55:17.719 --> 0:55:19.959
<v Speaker 1>like when you go to the Low Library you sign

0:55:20.000 --> 0:55:22.680
<v Speaker 1>a piece of paper and they handcuffed and take you up.

0:55:22.719 --> 0:55:24.279
<v Speaker 1>Then they opened the door and throw you in thew

0:55:24.280 --> 0:55:27.160
<v Speaker 1>and you're like, she ain't might kill me you up

0:55:27.200 --> 0:55:29.920
<v Speaker 1>in the library. You know he might be done. Made

0:55:30.000 --> 0:55:32.439
<v Speaker 1>a shank and put it in the Low Library book.

0:55:32.920 --> 0:55:34.680
<v Speaker 1>So if he got a raise in the in the book,

0:55:34.719 --> 0:55:37.880
<v Speaker 1>he could jook you with your say, if he's a killer,

0:55:38.640 --> 0:55:41.320
<v Speaker 1>know what man want to face the story killer not

0:55:41.520 --> 0:55:47.040
<v Speaker 1>then no, one day do coming out and I want

0:55:47.040 --> 0:55:48.759
<v Speaker 1>to say he was from Capital Home. I remember we're

0:55:48.760 --> 0:55:51.799
<v Speaker 1>having a small conversation. He was like, I'm gonna get him.

0:55:51.800 --> 0:55:54.600
<v Speaker 1>You know what I'm saying, I'm gonna get him. I

0:55:54.640 --> 0:55:57.120
<v Speaker 1>guess the little kid Toba jt or somebody from Capital.

0:55:57.360 --> 0:55:59.480
<v Speaker 1>He got missing some kind of way. He turned the

0:55:59.520 --> 0:56:03.000
<v Speaker 1>cone in the library and you can hear the number. Oh, y'all,

0:56:03.239 --> 0:56:07.160
<v Speaker 1>you know what I'm saying. When I looked around the

0:56:07.280 --> 0:56:10.719
<v Speaker 1>way picking the glasses about the ground, you know that

0:56:11.000 --> 0:56:13.959
<v Speaker 1>tear coming out of his eyes and and I didn't

0:56:13.960 --> 0:56:16.000
<v Speaker 1>see that, I said, he just it. It was something

0:56:16.080 --> 0:56:17.640
<v Speaker 1>on his mind. He wanted to get out of like

0:56:18.560 --> 0:56:28.239
<v Speaker 1>you want to file for Wayne. We didn't ask for

0:56:28.360 --> 0:56:31.320
<v Speaker 1>this life with folded food stamps in the way. I

0:56:31.400 --> 0:56:33.520
<v Speaker 1>found the wick in the government cheese and the pile

0:56:33.560 --> 0:56:37.279
<v Speaker 1>of milk. Like he listen today. We had apartment. You

0:56:37.360 --> 0:56:39.880
<v Speaker 1>know what I'm saying. The lights was on, but when

0:56:39.920 --> 0:56:41.920
<v Speaker 1>on furniture, and I went on food, And I'm like,

0:56:41.960 --> 0:56:47.239
<v Speaker 1>where we're gonna get it from? One thought? One part

0:56:47.320 --> 0:56:50.120
<v Speaker 1>of history. I don't know. Somebody got to tear me

0:56:50.239 --> 0:56:53.160
<v Speaker 1>who started first, Hayden? It had to be one or

0:56:53.160 --> 0:56:56.880
<v Speaker 1>two people. It couldn't have been Jesus wasn't but somebody

0:56:56.920 --> 0:57:00.080
<v Speaker 1>had to start Hayden hatred and race sealson. They now

0:57:00.120 --> 0:57:05.480
<v Speaker 1>but telling us that in schood until a bunch of

0:57:05.600 --> 0:57:08.840
<v Speaker 1>us get together and start knocking at the at the

0:57:08.960 --> 0:57:12.160
<v Speaker 1>dope and have our own Niga man march or Blacks

0:57:12.239 --> 0:57:15.200
<v Speaker 1>and Whites not no where ass and protests. I don't

0:57:15.200 --> 0:57:17.320
<v Speaker 1>want you to go to jail for me, like if

0:57:17.360 --> 0:57:21.000
<v Speaker 1>we don't come together as one. And I said, we

0:57:21.040 --> 0:57:23.760
<v Speaker 1>can hear the conversation every week if we feel like

0:57:23.800 --> 0:57:26.280
<v Speaker 1>it will make a difference. But this Dwayne Williams show,

0:57:26.560 --> 0:57:28.240
<v Speaker 1>You know what I was saying, But we need another

0:57:28.280 --> 0:57:37.280
<v Speaker 1>show and we want to break the race relationss. If

0:57:37.320 --> 0:57:39.280
<v Speaker 1>there's one thing I've learned throughout my work on Atlanta,

0:57:39.320 --> 0:57:41.880
<v Speaker 1>Monster said, no matter how you slice it, this story

0:57:42.360 --> 0:57:45.240
<v Speaker 1>is bigger than an investigation, bigger than a trial, and

0:57:45.280 --> 0:57:48.800
<v Speaker 1>bigger than Wayne Williams. This case invokes deep emotions even

0:57:48.840 --> 0:57:51.360
<v Speaker 1>in people that weren't directly affected by the killings, and

0:57:51.440 --> 0:57:54.360
<v Speaker 1>from what I've seen, it's inextuably tied to a feeling

0:57:54.400 --> 0:57:57.680
<v Speaker 1>of social struggle. No matter who committed these crimes, the

0:57:57.760 --> 0:58:01.600
<v Speaker 1>people of Atlanta, particularly the black community, didn't feel safe.

0:58:01.680 --> 0:58:05.800
<v Speaker 1>We're sufficiently supported through sensationalized media and heightened pressure. The

0:58:05.920 --> 0:58:08.680
<v Speaker 1>children that were murdered almost seemed to become a secondary

0:58:08.760 --> 0:58:11.760
<v Speaker 1>narrative to the story of Wayne Williams. But it's most

0:58:11.800 --> 0:58:14.680
<v Speaker 1>important to remember how this all started. With Edward Hope

0:58:14.720 --> 0:58:22.600
<v Speaker 1>Smith on July one, nineteen seventy nine. I think cast

0:58:22.680 --> 0:58:26.120
<v Speaker 1>such as what you're doing pay are one of the

0:58:26.240 --> 0:58:30.760
<v Speaker 1>best ways to attack, dismissinformation and trying to get people

0:58:30.800 --> 0:58:32.840
<v Speaker 1>to open the eyes and see, wait a minute, you

0:58:32.920 --> 0:58:36.000
<v Speaker 1>know it's trying to wake up. It seeks truth. You're

0:58:36.040 --> 0:58:38.440
<v Speaker 1>trying to tell a very difficult story, and you've done

0:58:38.480 --> 0:58:40.200
<v Speaker 1>as best a job as you could tell him. Then,

0:58:40.320 --> 0:58:43.320
<v Speaker 1>so I guess they speak experts them because that's all

0:58:43.640 --> 0:58:47.480
<v Speaker 1>paining you tackle to probably one case, the very few

0:58:47.560 --> 0:58:50.480
<v Speaker 1>of us understand and and and and our command you

0:58:50.560 --> 0:59:03.920
<v Speaker 1>but trying Who is the Atlanta monster? We don't know,

0:59:05.160 --> 0:59:08.280
<v Speaker 1>but we really don't know. And I think that that

0:59:08.840 --> 0:59:12.800
<v Speaker 1>it's clear at this point that was never any single

0:59:13.120 --> 0:59:16.000
<v Speaker 1>a line of monster. I think that your monster is

0:59:16.080 --> 0:59:20.040
<v Speaker 1>probably a group of of some of these by supremacists

0:59:20.040 --> 0:59:22.800
<v Speaker 1>who vother some of these killers. I think your monster

0:59:23.080 --> 0:59:25.600
<v Speaker 1>is probably people involved in some of these six and

0:59:25.720 --> 0:59:28.520
<v Speaker 1>drug ranks that no doubt kill some of these victors.

0:59:28.800 --> 0:59:31.000
<v Speaker 1>And I think your line of monster may well be

0:59:31.600 --> 0:59:34.120
<v Speaker 1>the streets of Atlanta. In the cases in which to

0:59:34.160 --> 0:59:36.440
<v Speaker 1>pick us, we're victors the street crack. So I think

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<v Speaker 1>it's done an Atlanta monster. You probably need to read

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<v Speaker 1>latel it at line of monsters and put a plural

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<v Speaker 1>on the end of it. Wayne, did you murder anybody? Hell?

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<v Speaker 1>I have not killed anybody in my life. Okay, that's

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<v Speaker 1>the question people ask all the time, and it's a

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<v Speaker 1>question that I will for people to ask because, let

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<v Speaker 1>let me tell you something. You know, I can let

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<v Speaker 1>people in the eye because my soul is arrest with God.

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<v Speaker 1>I sleep very good at night because we've all done

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<v Speaker 1>things it's not life that are wrong, if we're not

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<v Speaker 1>proud of. They are probably billion things that I've done

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<v Speaker 1>in my life that I could have been arrested for,

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<v Speaker 1>but killing somebody isn't one of them. And I think

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<v Speaker 1>anybody who really knows me and knows my character those

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<v Speaker 1>that this is a situation that was strung stub against me.

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<v Speaker 1>So I sleep good enough. It's this murder mystery that

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<v Speaker 1>never ends. As you know, there's just so many questions.

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<v Speaker 1>We're fascinated by crime stories. This is never going to

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<v Speaker 1>go away unless someone is arrested found guilty of killing

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<v Speaker 1>one or two of these children, and somebody else is

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<v Speaker 1>arrested and found guilty of killing a child. Now it's

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<v Speaker 1>never going to go away. And even then it won't

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<v Speaker 1>go away because there will be still be people who say,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't believe he did it. This is a story

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<v Speaker 1>that will last longer than the two of us. There

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<v Speaker 1>is this growing sense that if we don't figure this

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<v Speaker 1>out now, maybe we never will. You know, is this

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<v Speaker 1>going to go into some Jack the Ripper style vault

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<v Speaker 1>of perpetually unsolved mysteries. I don't think it's opening up

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<v Speaker 1>an old wound, because I think the wound is healed,

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<v Speaker 1>because many people say Wayne Williams is in jail and

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<v Speaker 1>that's it. But I think what it's doing is informing

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<v Speaker 1>a new generation because there are a lot of people

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<v Speaker 1>have never heard of this case because they weren't born

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<v Speaker 1>when it happened. And so now it serves two purposes

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<v Speaker 1>the historical perspective. Two, it also opens up new minds

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<v Speaker 1>to investigate the case and then three, it reminds young

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<v Speaker 1>people you can't run footloose and fancy for you all

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<v Speaker 1>over the city and think someone's not gonna grab you.

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<v Speaker 1>Although we'll never know why those particular children were taken,

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<v Speaker 1>and they were poor, they were black, they were in

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<v Speaker 1>a poor part of town, alone, and right now there's

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<v Speaker 1>still alone. They are alone, and that no one seems

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<v Speaker 1>to bother about saying, I really want to know who

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<v Speaker 1>killed Luby Cheeter, I really want to know what happened.

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<v Speaker 1>Who's been holding something inside for all these years? For

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<v Speaker 1>many of these children, The way that they were characterized

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<v Speaker 1>suggested to people, there's no reason for you to cry

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<v Speaker 1>for yourself because they don't have to mean anything for you,

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<v Speaker 1>and you don't have to cry for them and what

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<v Speaker 1>they lost either, because that wasn't going to amount to

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<v Speaker 1>anything much, And that to me is not only tragic

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<v Speaker 1>and upsetting, it is simply untrue. It's not true for anybody.

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<v Speaker 1>It felt heavy, That's how it felt. It felt sad,

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<v Speaker 1>and it felt like like there was a very terrible person,

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<v Speaker 1>indeed a monster who's just devouring black men. This is

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<v Speaker 1>former Atlanta Mayor becausiem Read. His term in office just

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<v Speaker 1>ended this year. I was mayor for two thousand nine

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<v Speaker 1>and twenty days. He remembers the child murders firsthand as

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<v Speaker 1>a young boy growing up in Atlanta. There needs to

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<v Speaker 1>be an equality to the importance of life. To the

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<v Speaker 1>extent that you have really equality of the importance of life,

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<v Speaker 1>you would have had more attention faster if it were

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<v Speaker 1>a white child. Any child is harmed, we also have

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<v Speaker 1>the same level of intensity and passion and focus from

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<v Speaker 1>day one. There should not be a lag time for

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<v Speaker 1>alarm needs to be that a kid got killed, and

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<v Speaker 1>we're gonna find who killed a kid, and we're gonna

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<v Speaker 1>bring that person to justice. And it needs to be

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<v Speaker 1>a unified feeling that that is the case. It should

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<v Speaker 1>not be community by community. And to the extent that

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<v Speaker 1>we do that we are a better city. We have

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<v Speaker 1>to maintain that important ethic that our children are hands

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<v Speaker 1>off to anybody, and that anybody who attempts to harm

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<v Speaker 1>our children will suffer extraordinary, dynamic and extreme consequences with

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<v Speaker 1>unified support, That's what I hope that the lesson will be.

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