(Later he would claim that he'd come there to see the stakeout, having heard about it from friends in the police force.) They questioned him, but when he said he'd just dumped some garbage they let him go. He was a 23 year-old black photographer and music promoter. On the James Jackson Parkway Bridge, they saw a white Chevrolet station wagon, and when they stopped it, they learned that the driver's name was Wayne Williams. Someone had just thrown something rather large into the river. In the early morning hours, the stakeout patrol heard a loud splash.
On May 22, 1981, this strategy appeared to pay off. Since the unknown predator seemed to favor the Chatahoochee River, the police set up a stakeout. (Others, however, did not think that all of these deaths were related.) They took it to mean that the killer (or killers) was paying attention to the media. Some authorities surmised that the killer believed that the water would wash away trace evidence. The fiber discovery was reported in the newspaper and shortly thereafter, bodies were found stripped and thrown into the river. They searched unsuccessfully for the manufacturer. These specimens were all sent to the Georgia State Crime Laboratory for analysis, and technicians there isolated two distinct types: a violet-colored acetate fiber and a coarse yellow-green nylon fiber with the type of tri-lobed (three branch) qualities associated with carpets. A few also bore strands of what was determined to be hair from a dog. The only real clue-which was valuable only if a suspect surfaced-was the presence on several of the bodies and their clothing of some kind of fiber threads.
A few females were killed and some children were just missing, but all potential leads turned into dead ends. More than twenty-five black males, some as young as nine, had been strangled, bludgeoned or asphyxiated. From 1979 to 1981, someone was killing Atlanta's youth.
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