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>> it sent chills down our spines knowing we were in the head of a murderer. >> reporter: we'll also talk to insiders who have never spoken out before. they say ross harris was not a killer but a doting dad. was he a proud dad? >> so proud. >> he loved that boy. >> reporter: a father who ended up on trial for an unimaginable crime. >> the entire case was a house of cards. >> reporter: and just like the people around him, you can decide is this the face of a dad who just made the worst mistake of his life? or a murderer? >> oh, my god. what have i done? ♪ >> reporter: ross harris grew up in t...

"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 application right in the middle of doing it? >> reporter: ross' defense team says the entire case against him was outrageous, built on evidence that was twisted by prosecutors to make him look like a killer. they say that message about escape, for instance, was about hanging out with friends...

Authorities were not convinced. they charged him in the death of his son. the father may have been negligent in forgetting cooper was in the car, but were his actions intentional? here again is andrea canning. >> reporter: the day after cooper's death ross harris sat in the cobb county jail. his family and friends were in shock. billy was a paul bearer at cooper's funeral. >> have to carry that -- that little casket, you know. >> katie says the family grieved in full view of the media. >> i felt like it was a circus and we were the monkeys. everybody was watching us. >> police were watching to...

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 didn't 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. >> you can hold a gun to my head and tell me that i had to say that ross hurt cooper on purpose an...

Mean all kinds can of things. >> another case in point, that child-free website ross supposedly visited, he actually found it repulsive. >> the link was sent to him by a friend in jest. ross goes to the link, looks at it and he responded, grossness. >> and the defense says there was more misinformation released early on, like that story about ross researching hot car deaths. ross had clicked on one video posted on a popular website about pets in hot cars, but the defense said that was hardly research. a computer expert testified ross never actively searched for information on hot car deaths. >...