Wayne+Williams+Questions-+AWH

1. Usually fiber evidence is used to support other evidence. But in this case, the fibers found were deciding evidence that was backed up by the evidence that it would usually support.

2. They hoped that all the fibers would come from the same place and they could identify where they came from. After examining the fibers, they realized that they were all from the same source. They traced the fibers back to a carpet. They found where the carpet was sold and traced the different purchases back to each owner. One of the customers was Wayne Williams, one of the prime suspects.

3. The fibers that matched up to the carpet helped the investigators trace the carpet back to Wayne Williams' home. They were able to find where the carpet came from originally and found the owners of that specific carpet by going to the store and checking the purchase history.

4. The carpet was a very unique carpet that was only made by that company, and only sold for one year. The colors sold at the store matched the color of the fibers found on the bodies. Narrowing down all of the clues to Wayne Williams.

5. Since the carpet was sold for such a short amount of time and a very low number of them were actually sold, it make the likelihood of Williams being the murderer very high because The chances that someone else to have that specific type of carpet.