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Editorial saying, gee, maybe kevin cooper is an innocent man. the defense attorneys laid out this case about how this innocent man had been unjustly convicted. >> coopers defense said for years theyd been unsuccessful in petitioning the courts for new dna testing, which could exonerate cooper. >> he kept saying, im not guilty, do the testing. if it shows im guilty, you can go ahead and execute me. i walked out of there thinking, whoa, theyve really made a case ive got to think about. >> san bern...

>> reporter: tips were coming in. someone said they saw a white car speeding from the park the night of the shootings. that lead nowhere. so chavez and his team focused on the crime scene. there was no murder weapon. they did find two spent .45 caliber casings. >> reporter: and near an observation deck just thirty feet away from where mollie and kristene were discovered, police found an empty monster energy drink can and five cigarette butts. >> and the girls didnt smoke? >> the girls did not sm...

Found on her garage floor. >> the jacket smelled of pepper spray, too. there were two shoes found in the car, but nothing else. melissa had been wearing a sterling silver ring, diamond earrings and a $5,000 watch. she also had an expensive prada handbag and an iphone. could very well be a target of some opportunistic grab-and-run. >> at the point we find her vehicle, we have no clues, no leads, and we dont have any suspects identified. >> police did find a tiny drop of melissas blood in her car ...

Actual fine. before and i wont. say terry and jackie deposited one of these on the ground how can you know who it was in parks and residential areas there are untold numbers of unpleasant surprises like this but not any longer owners who fail to scoop the poop will now face a five hundred your a fine and thats reasonable say many residents. i agree with that but the fines have to be a deterrent so the owners clean up the. the fines have to be really high. that maybe the. d.n.a. testing of dont p...

A five hundred your a fine and thats reasonable say many monica residents. and i agree with that but the fines have to be a deterrent so the owners clean up the. the fines have to be really high. i mean the. d.n.a. testing of docu to find the owners who are flouting the law thats what the malaga city council decided a year and a half ago. to feed the cows and pleased that the project is now finally getting off the ground. because if its not theres broad consensus on this course of action within ...

The defenses shock, the testing came back saying that there was kevins dna on a-41. >> but for hile, the dna results raised a red flag. >> back in 1983, the lab technician, daniel gregonis he testified that he had consumed a-41 during his testing. now gregonis was asked to make sure that a-41 still existed. we have a photograph of the envelope that shows the date that he took it out and when he resealed it. so we know that he had a-41 on his person for 24 hours before he returned it. hed also ha...

Years theyd been unsuccessful in dna testing which could exonerate cooper. >> he kept saying, im not guilty, do the testing. if it shows im guilty, you can execute me. i walked out of there thinking, whoa, theyve really made a case ive got to think about. >> san bernardinos current district attorney michael ramos was handling coopers appeals. >> we felt that the ongoing request by defense counsel in this case was just another delay tactic. there was no evidence at all that anybody but kevin coop...

>> all these years that my case was in the appeals courts, i never got a fair hearing, i would always get denied for one reason or the next. so i felt very bad. very discouraged until dna testing came along, and i had a shot. >> the state would perform dna tests on blood sample a-41, taken from the ryens hallway and blood on the tan shirt thought to have been thrown from their stolen station wagon. the results would determine whether kevin cooper lived or died. ♪

>> at the crime seen, detective arnold continued to sift through clues. more leads came into focus. a bloody footprint, three soda cans and two cigarette butts by the bed. >> the second had an ash about an inch long. >> detective arnold ordered dna testing on the cigarettes and can. the detective was also learning about earon and the more he found out, the more he was drawn in. earon was raising four children, incling erica, and ebony, the oldest. >> we were more like sisters. we did everything ...

Addition to global position monitoring system, you would wear a gps. you will pay restitution in the amount to be determined based on whatever amounts are submitted and your attorneys can ask me for restitution hearing so that i can determine what a reasonable amount is for the victims. i am leaving restitution open as long as those victims have issues that can be medically documented. you will comply with dna testing and pay a $60 fee for that. i suspect that was already done. but you owe $60 b...