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How did FBI analysts individualize the fiber evidence in the Williams case?

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During the trial, fiber evidence was used to
associate Williams with 12 of those victims.
Fiber evidence is often used to corroborate
other evidence in a case it is used to support
other testimony and validate other evidence
presented at a trial. Fiber evidence allied to
probability analysis underpinned the
prosecution's claim that Wayne Williams was
the worst child killer in U.S, history. By 1981,
the city of Atlanta was in the grip of a two-
year killing spree that had left more than
twenty young black males strangled or
otherwise asphyxiated. A fiber expert for the
Federal Bureau of Investigation testified today
that the fibers and dog hairs found on nine
murdered black youths can be traced to the
home or automobile of Wayne B. Williams.
He was a sick murderer
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