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>> david kopenheffer is the master manipulator. it's an intellectual game, an intellectual challenge to see how far he can push the system and what he can get away with. >> i think if he were out he'd kill again. he'd put a contract on me and harry weiner while the trial was going on because we were key witnesses against him. i don't think that he would stop at anything. >> despite the overwhelming amount of forensic evidence against him, kopenheffer continues to maintain his innocence. >> that's the arrogance of the man, that despite overwhelming evidence as to his guilt and many defendants d...

A background check revealed some startling information about david kopenheffer. he had been turned down for a $25,000 business loan by harry weiner less than a year earlier. kopenheffer was now the prime suspect in the kidnapping and murder of harry weiner's wife sally. so the fbi put david kopenheffer under surveillance and watched as he took some trash out to the dumpster behind his store. when the fbi seized it, they found some suspicious items. they found a used roll of crepe paper, the same make and color as the paper found with the ransom notes.

Newspapers the store carried. in particular he noticed the unusual border. >> it was a five-pointed star with a greater than and less than sign shown consecutively. and corporal ayman thought about it and said i know i've seen it somewhere. >> the policeman immediately recognized it as the same symbol that was on the first ransom note. the owner of the store, david kopenheffer, said he made the sign with his computer and the border was one he mimicked after seeing it on other signs. kopenheffer was a friend of the winer family and denied having anything to do with sally's murder. >> they knew ...

Off the ransom money. >> harry was the one he was mad at for having turned him down on the loan application. he wanted revenge on harry as much as he wanted the money. >> despite warning harry not to call police, kopenheffer learned that harry did just that because of a journalist who had heard about the kidnapping from the police scanner. >> and i went immediately to the plaza and parked my car. there was not a lot of activity. >> so he walked into david kopenheffer's store and asked what was going on. >> he looked at me and said no, hasn't been a single thing going on. it's been a very quiet...

. a background check revealed some startling information about david kopenheffer. he had been turned down for a $25,000 business loan by harry winer less than a year earlier. kopenheffer was now the prime suspect in the kidnapping and murder of harry winer's wife sally. so the fbi put david kopenheffer under surveillance and watched as he took some trash out to the dumpster behind his store. when the fbi seized it. they found some suspicious items.