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>> it really verified what we knew all along that kevin cooper committed all of these horrendous murders. >> only one out of 300 billion people could have matched a-41. you could go to galaxies far beyond the stars and still not find the match for a-41 that cooper supplies. >> once the dna test put kevin cooper in the home he said he never went into and on a t-shirt with doug ryan's blood on it, that was it for him. >> debra saunders, once convinced of cooper's innocence now publishes scathing articles in the san francisco chronicle about kevin cooper's guilt. the new pretension backfired on c...

Was 100%. beyond a shadow of a doubt. kevin cooper was in that house and bled at that crime scene. it really verified what you knew all along, that kevin cooper committed these horrendous murders. >> only one out of 300 billion people could have matched a-41. you could go to galaxies far beyond the stars and still not find a match for a-41 that cooper supplies. >> once the dna test put kevin cooper in the home he said he never went into and on a tee shirt with doug ryan's blood on it, that was it for him. >> deborah saunders once convinced of cooper's innocence now published scathing reports a...

Order to steal their station wagon. >> problem with this theory is that if somebody such as kevin cooper had wanted to make an escape, they missed the fact that there was cash, credit cards and other valuables left at the scene of the crimes. none of that was taken. if mr. cooper has walked away from the prison, obviously with no money, all of it was right there for him to take, and it was not touched. >> hiel also disputed the prosecution's theory that the killer worked alone. the sheer number of wounds suffered by the victims, 140 in all, and the fact that doug ryan was an ex-marine with loa...

Kevin's dna on a-41. >> but for hiel, the dna results raised a red flag. >> back in 1983, the lab technician, daniel gregonis he testified that he had consumed a-41 in his testing. we have a photograph of the envelope that shows the date that he took it out and when he resealed it. so we know that he had a-41 on his person for 24 hours before he returned it. he'd also had nearby, in the lab, the vial of kevin cooper's blood that was taken from him when he was arrested. >> contrary to gregonis's original testimony, the state now reported there was enough of a-41 for additional dna testing. resu...

By 2003, kevin cooper lost all his appeals for the 1983 murders of the ryan family and chris hughes. with his time running out and cooper still professing his innocence, the case came to the attention of the high powered law firm, oreck harrington and sutcliff. they fought death penalty cases on a pro bono basis. >> one thing i've learned in now 25 years of representing people on death row, you're going to be fighting an uphill battle and you have a client whose life is in the balance is a very heavy burden. >> what he could not dispute was cooper's criminal history, his escape from prison, an...