Ashley Smith was the hero in Atlanta

The AJC carries this 26-year old woman's amazing story.

No awards for any LE units.  They did their best, but they bungled the manhunt like the keystone cops. If Nichols had simply kept driving up I-85 during the night, he could have ditched the pickup (which was not "hot" until the next morning) before daylight way up in Virginia somewhere, and they'd still be clueless as to his whereabouts.

His gambit of driving the hijacked car back to the same garage where he hijacked it and then hopping on MARTA at a nearby station was a brilliant move which completely fooled the police.  They didn't block MARTA stations on either side, and they didn't start concentrating on MARTA until Friday afternoon, when somebody told them the car we were all on the lookout for was in the parking garage. (Cop cars were swarming the area around a MARTA station a few blocks from my house around 5PM.)

No heroics by LE at the capture scene either. After Nichols saw all the police vehicles entering the complex, he realized Ashley had called 911 and came out waving a white tee shirt and spread eagled on the ground.

With this wimpy ending, Brian Nichols doesn't even deserve evil hero status. Even kids brought up with the morals taught by video games can't respect him.

If you're expecting speedy justice, don't. GA will try him a lot faster than CA, but we'll have to house and feed him for MANY years yet. It took 14 years to execute the last killer in GA.