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Day and a half. cooper said yeah, i was at the lease house but i never went up to the ryan house. it wasnt me. it must have been somebody else that did this. >> cot meyer showed the hatchet in the lease house and the bloody footprint found in the ryans bedroom. >> the sheathe was a half bloody footpri footprint. those soles were unique and we were able to determine by a prison issue tennis shoe. >> blood found that the murder scene led back to cooper. >> a single drop of blood in the hallway and...

>> norman heil felt he had enough evidence to fight for kevins life. but as he prepared, another witness came forward. 20 years after the crime. >> i heard theyre putting kevin cooper to death and i went, are you kidding me? >> on the night of the murders, kristen was eating at the canyon corral, a country western bar a couple miles from the ryans home. >> as we were in the bar, come these three guys. i notice that one of them was covered in blood. not just little spots. this was like someone wh...

Results from the tan tee shirt also changed drastically. at the original trial, the tee shirt was only shown to have doug ryans blood on it. >> when the tee shirt was tested at this time, there was additional blood located on the upper part of the tee shirt, across the chest that had not been noticed or photographed or even reported previous to this time. >> coopers defense argued that the new blood on the tee shirt and the newly discovered blood found on a-41 could only have come from one place...

Boyfriend, a man named lee furrow, drive up to their house in the wee hours of the morning. lee furrow comes rushing into the house wearing cover alls splattered with what looks to be spots of blood. he changes clothes and turns around and leaves. there were other people in the house and someone looked out the window and saw a white station wagon matching the ryans parked in the driveway with other individuals in the car. diana roper called the sheriffs department and she gave them the cover all...

But heils biggest question involved motive and the prosecutions game that cooper killed the ryans in order to steal their station wagon. >> the problem with this theory is that if somebody such as kevin cooper had wanted to make an escape, they missed the fact that there was cash, credit cards, and other valuables left at the scene of the crimes. none of that was taken. if mr. cooper walked away from the prison with no money, all of it was right there for him to take and it was not touched. >> h...

It really verified what you knew all along, that kevin cooper committed these horrendous murders. >> only one out of 300 billion people could have matched a-41. you could go to galaxies far beyond the stars and still not find a match for a-41 that cooper supplies. >> once the dna test put kevin cooper in the home he said he never went into and on a tee shirt with doug ryan as blos b it, that was it for him. >> deborah saunders once convinced of coopers innocence now published scathing reports ab...

>> we knew whoever had been in the lease house committed the murders of the ryan house. and in the closet, we found the small box, prison issued tobacco from chino institution for men. we checked with prison authorities, got names of any individuals that had escaped within the past week. all of the sudden, we had a suspect. kevin cooper. >> just two days before the murders, 25-year-old kevin cooper had escaped from the california institution for men. a prison just five miles from the ryans home....

California supreme court saying that kevin had been denied his rights and the prosecution had been improper. >> coopers arguments hinged on plants of evidence and alternate suspects who were never pursued. cooper also appealed to governor schwarzenegger for clemency. >> for the clemency petition, a number of jurors came forward and said they were very uncomfortable. now that they had learned about the things that surfaced since the trial. peggy, ryans sister even wrote a letter to the governor s...

A-41 for additional dna testing. results from the tan t-shirt also changed drastically. at the original trial, the t-shirt was only shone to have doug ryans blood on it. >> when the t-shirt was tested, at this time, there was additional blood located on the upper part of the t-shirt across the chest. it was previous to this time. >> coopers defense argued that the new blood on the t-shirt and the newly discovered blood found on a-41 only could have come from one place. the bile of coopers blood,...

Doubt kevin cooper. et verified what you knew all along that kevin cooper committed these horrendous murders. >> only one out of 300 billion people could have matched a-41. you could go to galaxies far beyond the stars and still not find the match for a-41, that cooper supplies. >> once the dna test put kevin cooper in the home he said he never went into and on a t-shirt with doug ryans blood on it, that was it for him. >> debra saunders, once convinced of coopers innocence posts scathing report...