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And a lot of connected it to alex guerrero. what is your reaction to that? i. >> i have no comment. its just ridiculous. im out! >> brady abruptly ending that media session saying, "im out." edelm edelman took responsibility. >> what is in the past is in the past. ultimately im worried about just going out here and playing football. im not here to talk about making a headline on something, you know? im just here playing football. >> edelman is suspended the first four games of the seen and patri...

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

Know, as long as she sat outside, she could pretend like this wasnt happening. because once she goes inside, you know, theres an empty bedroom where coopers supposed to be. >> reporter: an empty crib? >> theres his toys, his pictures. its not real if she doesnt go inside. >> reporter: katie says leanna was numb without her child and her husband. did she go through that emotion at any point, im angry at you? how could you do this? >> i dont know that she was ever angry at him. >> reporter: becaus...

His son. the father, may have been negligent in forgetting cooper was in the car but were his actions intentional? here again is andrea king. >> reporter: the day after coopers death, ross harris sat in the cobb county jail. his family and friends were in shock. billy was a pallbearer at coopers funeral. >> you have to carry that -- that little casket. you know? >> reporter: katie says the family grieved in full view of the media. >> i felt like it was a circus and we were the monkeys. everybody...

>> reporter: prosecutor chuck boring was brought into the investigation early on. >> i think the main goal in a 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 ...

>> i didnt know that. >> reporter: humiliating as it was, she stuck it out for nearly two days of testimony. >> that woman had every reason in the world to hate ross harris. and despite all of that, despite all of that, she was willing to come testify for him because she knew what the truth was. >> reporter: and then, in his final question to leanna, ross attorney wanted to make something clear. leanna was there for one reason only -- she believed that what happened to cooper was a mistake, not ...

One message in particular said it all. just minutes before ross strapped cooper into his car seat for the last time, he messaged a woman on an anonymous app called whisper. he typed this. "i love my son and all, but we both need escapes." >> honestly, it sent chills down our spines knowing we were in the head of a murderer. >> reporter: nonsense, according to the defense. >> if he is in the throes of committing a heinous murder, is he really going to announce that by texting it through this appl...

Us. >> reporter: investigators pulled surveillance video from the chick-fil-a restaurant where ross said he took cooper for breakfast. there they were, father and son. >> nothing really seems out of the ordinary. 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 ...

Here with the conclusion to our story is andrea kane. >> reporter: 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 te...