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Knew that day, ross was -- ross must have left him in the car. >> it made sense because she knew ross so well. he could be forgetful. >> when she saw the video, she recognized that guy, too. the overly social guy chatting away. >> he would just talk to everybody. very outgoing, very vocal. he didnt -- he never met a stranger. >> but leanna also told the jury how ross looked when she first saw him at the police station. she says he was in terrible pain. >> it was very difficult to see him like th...

>> and then the prosecution showed what it believed was powerful evidence that ross had to have known that cooper was still in the back seat, that video of ross returning to the car. >> why would ross harris return to the scene of the crime? >> we know first of all doing this job enough people do return to the scene of their crime. once he went into the car he realized either this child was still alive or this child was dead and he couldnt take what he had done and he threw the light bulbs. >> a...

Ross was behaving. he cried out one moment. >> oh, my god, what have i done. >> the next moment he seemed calm. >> were going to sit here and talk to you a little bit. >> at the police station, detectives who interviewed ross thought his demeanor seemed a bit strange. they noticed he never shed a tear in front of them. instead, he was casual as they searched his pockets. >> lead guitar player at stone bridge church. >> okay, yeah. >> even jokey. >> and he was your partner in language. >> he is. ...

Now, i dont know what was going through this mans mind, but i do know i have five children and i forget things in an instant. it just happens. is it fair that -- to say, oh, he 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. >> investigators noted that coope...

>> did you say too much? >> i couldnt understand what was happening. i didnt understand why he was being charged, and the only thing that i could think in my head was what -- what did you say. and so those words came out. >> as for that prosecution theory that ross had wanted to escape his family for his secret life, leanna said it wasnt true. she had known for years that ross had a problem. >> i came home from work one day and he told me that he had a problem with pornography. two years after t...

Only about half a mile. >> and there was something else investigators found interesting about rosss route that day. it is how quickly he would have forgotten cooper if it happened the way he said. we decided to retrace ross 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. this is a critical intersectio...

If i turn around i can definitely see it. if i use my mirrors to back up, i cant. >> and there was another detail the surveillance video from home depot reveal. ross had gone to lunch with some friends. there he is getting picked up. but look here, nearly an hour later there he is again getting dropped off at his car. he opens the drivers door and throws a box of light bulbs on to the front seat. ross never told detectives about going back to his car in the middle of the day. >> did he lie about...

Trucks in the world. >> oh, my boy. >> but it was something else ross told leanna that really got the investigators attention. >> he said it while he was talking to leanna. you know, he was dreading how cooper was going to look when he got him out. >> almost like -- >> he knew what was there exactly. he knew what was going to be found. >> they were also struck by how calm leanna seemed to be and by this surprising question. >> did you say too much? >> detectives wondered what she meant. they cam...

Compelling case pointing to his guilt. what would the jury decide? here with the conclusion to our story is andrea king. >> ross harris, the man whose ex-wife said never met a stranger was about to have his future decided by 12 of them. how are 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. >> ross cousin kate said nothing she had seen in trial swayed her belief in ross innocence. >...

>> because she believes 100% that it was not intentional. >> so there she was in court, not condemning ross but defending him. >> tell me a little bit about cooper. >> cooper was the sweetest little boy. he had so much life in him. he was everything to me. >> and everything to ross too, she testified, as the jury watched family videos of father and son. >> what are we looking at there? >> thats them in our bed, and they would just -- thats kind of a little game that they would play. >> leanna sa...