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I mean, this looks like a father and son grabbing breakfast. it doesnt look like a child killer waiting to carry out his crime. >> i would say completely to the contrary. i looked at the video, and when i first saw it and i thought it seemed very out of the ordinary. in particular, the way that he was introducing cooper to some of the workers there. and how they eventually described it to us as being almost like he was putting on a show, almost like he was going out of his way to do that. >> rep...

>> i have complete confidence in the jurys verdict, complete confidence in the evidence that was presented, and i believe when the day comes, this verdict will, in fact, be affirmed. >> reporter: but ross harris supporters say there is another tragedy in all this. they believe his conviction will make things worse for parents who make similar, terrible mistakes. >> this sets the precedent that anyone that does this is a monster. and thats just not the case. this really can happen to anyone. >> r...

What you want. and i believe his answer back to me was, thats the last thing i want. >> reporter: prosecutors told us there was no evidence leanna knew what her husband was supposedly planning. and when they cross-examined her, they suggested she didnt know her husband at all. >> youd agree theres a whole part of his life that you had no clue about? >> i would agree that i did not know the depth. >> have you read the text messages that he sent to these other women? >> no. i have no -- i have no ...

Case like this is to get a timeline of the events. >> reporter: ross told detectives the morning had begun like many others. leanna set off to work early. ross set out to take cooper to day care and decided to stop for breakfast at chick-fil-a near his office. >> and me and him do that at chick-fil-a in vinings approximately two or three times a month together. >> reporter: after they ate, ross said he strapped cooper into his car seat. >> i gave him a kiss. he gave me a kiss. what i do every ti...

>> yes, he did. very much. >> did you ever see ross express anger or hatred or malice toward his son ever? >> no, never. >> reporter: then came that terrible day. the courtroom was silent as leanna described arriving at coopers day care and being told he wasnt there. >> she said, he didnt come today. and i just kind of went into a panic. i didnt know what to do. i was just -- it didnt make sense. cooper was supposed to be at day care. i was supposed to be the one to pick him up. it didnt make se...

Wouldnt be able to forget something so fast? >> this is something that if you look at it alone, can somebody forget something that fast? is it possible? yes. but then you look at the location of the car seat and all of the other factors together and that showed us that he could not have. >> reporter: investigators noted that coopers car seat was just inches from the drivers seat. and when they looked at surveillance video from ross work parking lot, they saw this, video of ross backing up before...

He would talk about. >> reporter: even prosecution witnesses wound up vouching for ross as a good dad. a teacher from coopers day care. >> he would just spend quality time with him interacting with him doing the activities. >> reporter: and some of those women who testified for the prosecution about sexting with ross? even they agreed he seemed to love his kid. >> what would he say about his son? >> that he was great, and that he loved his son. >> he just talked about how much he loved him and h...

The sun. and parents pay the ultimate price for lives that are busy, distracted, sometimes overwhelming. police werent able to save 22-month-old cooper harris a few years ago, and his death in hot car made headlines nationwide. >> new details in a tragic case weve been following, the death of a georgia toddler. >> reporter: but there was something different about coopers story. something darker. because coopers dad, ross harris, ended up being charged with a crime. accused not of forgetting coop...

Ross harris, the man whose ex-wife says never met a stranger, was about to have his future decided by 12 of them. how were you all feeling as the jury went out to deliberate? >> i didnt think there was any chance of them coming back with guilty on anything that had to do with cooper. >> reporter: ross cousin katie said nothing she had seen at trial had swayed her belief in ross innocence. >> you could hold a gun to my head and tell me that i had to say that ross hurt cooper on purpose, and it wi...

Route that day. were making a right out of the chick-fil-a parking lot and we have to cross a lane of traffic just as ross did to get to this u-turn right here. he made this u-turn very quickly and then headed toward this intersection up here. and this is a critical intersection coming up. it was here ross had to make a decision. going left would have taken him to coopers day care. going straight on would have taken him to work. he went straight on. that means he forgot cooper was in the car wit...