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2 _ , in These officials included the Commissioner of Public Safety and the Chief of Police in Atlanta, the District Attorneys from Fulton and DeKa1b Counties and representatives of the Georgia Bureau of lnvestigation were unanimous in their opinion that the hair and fiber evidence linking the subject to the victims is valid and of considerable significance. The fiber specialists It was the consensus of opinion that the fibers comprising the green carpet located in the bedroom of the subject were like those found on fourteen victims. These fibers are very unusual fibers and are believed to have been manufactured by a small carpet company in Johnsonville, South Carolina, and may have been produced in very limited amounts. A large number of contacts with experts in the fiber industry were made before a DuPont representative recognized the fiber type. The violet acetate fibers removed from the clothing of eighteen of the murder victims are also considered to be uncommon. Acetate fibers are not presently being manufactured in large amounts with the exception of undyed acetate fibers used in cigarette filters. The bedspread, found in the bedroom of Wayne Bertram Williams, is composed of violet acetate fibers and green cotton fibers which would both be expected to shed readily. The large number of acetate fibers found on many of the victims indicate contact with items that that shed readily. It was also noted at the conference that loose fibers transferred from one item to another can be easily dislodged and the likelihood for detecting a transfer reduces rapidly with the Passage of time from the point of contact. Since the large numbers of violet acetate fibers were found on the victims after their deaths, it is likely that the transfer of these fibers occurred shortly before their death. It was pointed out that since the bedspread from the subject's bedroom also contains green cotton_fibers, these green cotton fibers would be expected to transfer on contact of the bedspread with other objects. An examination of the limited specimens made available disclosed the presence of green cotton fibers in the debris from two of the victims. A number of the fiber specialists also examined the dog hairs recovered from many of the victims and the hair samples obtained from the dog present at the home of Wayne Bertram Williams. These specialists felt that the several types of dog hair recovered from the victims were 3 O 1" and Federal Bureau of Investigation. 1;} E