Trace Of Evidence

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Trace of Evidence


This article I chose was “Trace of Evidence” that was found on www.courttv.com. This article was about a serial killing taken place from 1979 to 1981 in Atlanta Georgia. Around the time of the killings, there had been found youths, more than 25 black men, some females and some as young as nine years old. They had all been strangled, bludgeoned, or asphyxiated.
After police discovered these gruesome bodies they noticed that the only real clue the could notice was some kind of fiber threads and a few bore strands what seemed to be dog hair that were presence on several bodies and their clothing’s. Those specimens were all sent to the Georgia State Crime Laboratory for analysis, and technicians isolated two distinct types: a violet-colored acetate fiber and a coarse yellow-green nylon fiber with the type of trilobed qualities associated with carpets. The manufacture search was unsuccessful.
The cases and discover of the fibers were showed on the news. The killer must have been watching every episode to keep up with what the police was finding out, shortly after police found bodies stripped and thrown into the river. Police thought that the killer must have thought that by throwing them into the water that it would wash away trace of evidence. The river killing was taken place at the Chatahoochee River. So police decided to do a steak out to see what they could find. On May 22, 1981, early morning hours, one of the police heard a loud splash. Leaving the river, police saw a white Chevrolet station wagon. When they pulled the car over, they learned that the driver’s name was Wayne Williams. He had indicated that he had thrown some old garbage into the water and the police let him go. After checking his story police found a 27-year-old man floating to the top. He had been dredged up about a mile from the bridge, and despite his murderer’s carefulness, a single yellow-green carpet fiber was foun...