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Beach, the first time it was suspected there were no cigarette butts. the second time they suddenly found two cigarette butts. clearly, they had been taken from the hideout house. >> and then there was the blood evidence connecting cooper to the murders. this small speck labeled a-41. a-41 was examined by sheriff department criminalist daniel gregonas. >> gregonas was a rookie at the time. the standard procedure is that you test something, and you try to see whether it's that person or not. but gregonas waited until he had kevin cooper's blood type. >> he originally found a-41 did not match ke...

Also changed drastically. at the original trial, the trgs t-shirt was only shown to have doug ryen's blood 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. >> cooper's 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 vial of cooper's blood that lab technician daniel gregonas had access to. the vial was taken to an independent lab for analysis. >> it was discovered that the vile of kevin cooper'...

Poured somebody else's blood into it after they poured blood to a-41 and the t-shirt. >> much like when teenagers drink their parents' alcohol in order to conceal that, they have to fill the bottle back up with something else. >> cooper and his team eventually brought their claims of blood tampering to judge marilyn hough requesting that daniel gregonas be called to testify but as in previous petitions, judge hough denied all of their requests. after more than 20 years on death row and numerous failed appeals, the course now set kevin cooper's execution date for february 10th, 2004. by this ti...

Deputies were asked to go search the lease house again. by then, they knew the hatchet had been used in the murders. and they found a sheath to a hand ax laying right out in the middle of the floor in a position that the first deputies walking through the house could not have missed it. they would have had to have been blind to miss that sheath. >> cooper also said that during his two days in the house he smoked multiple cigarettes. >> but when police collected the evidence, they only collected one cigarette butt. the rest of the cigarette butts somehow disappeared. later on, when they found t...