This episode was recorded pre-COVID at the Atlanta Innocence Network Conference in 2019.

On April 5, 1985, a woman was exiting her car at a parking lot just north of Atlanta

when a man approached asking about a woman named Carol.

When he got close enough, he pulled a gun, forced her into the passenger seat, drove to

a dead end and proceeded to rape her.

After the attack, the victim went to the hospital for a rape kit.

With a well-lit parking lot in over 45 minutes with her attacker, she was able to put together

a composite sketch.

On April 10, a near-identical incident occurred along the same stretch of road.

A man approached a woman in a parking lot asking for Carol before using a threat of violence

to get her back into the car.

However, this time, the victim was able to talk, the attacker, into leaving before a rape

occurred.

Police showed this would be victim of the composite sketch and it appeared that it was a

serial rapist operating in the north Atlanta area.

Then, on April 28, Willie Pete Williams, along with two of his friends, were stopped by police

for suspicious behavior in the area of the attacks.

Police noticed that Pete resembled the sketch and came up with a reason to arrest him, saying

that he gave them false information in order to bring him in to be photographed.

His photo was shown to both women for a positive ID.

While Pete was locked up, three more attacks would occur with the same MO, but it was already

too late.

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