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Day and a half. cooper said yeah, i was at the lease house but i never went up to the ryan house. it wasn't me. it must have been somebody else that did this. >> cot meyer showed the hatchet in the lease house and the bloody footprint found in the ryan's bedroom. >> the sheathe was a half bloody footpri footprint. those soles were unique and we were able to determine by a prison issue tennis shoe. >> blood found that the murder scene led back to cooper. >> a single drop of blood in the hallway and cooper matched it. >> finally cot meyer played the

>> norman heil felt he had enough evidence to fight for kevin's life. but as he prepared, another witness came forward. 20 years after the crime. >> i heard they're putting kevin cooper to death and i went, are you kidding me? >> on the night of the murders, kristen was eating at the canyon corral, a country western bar a couple miles from the ryan's home. >> as we were in the bar, come these three guys. i notice that one of them was covered in blood. not just little spots. this was like someone who had taken a paint brush and went

Results from the tan tee shirt also changed drastically. at the original trial, the tee shirt was only shown to have doug ryan's blood on it. >> when the tee shirt was tested at this time, there was additional blood located on the upper part of the tee shirt, across the chest that had not been noticed or photographed or even reported previous to this time. >> cooper's defense argued that the new blood on the tee shirt and the newly discovered blood found on a-41 could only have come from one place, the vile of cooper's blood that lab technician daniel gregonis had access to. the defense would ...

Boyfriend, a man named lee furrow, drive up to their house in the wee hours of the morning. lee furrow comes rushing into the house wearing cover alls splattered with what looks to be spots of blood. he changes clothes and turns around and leaves. there were other people in the house and someone looked out the window and saw a white station wagon matching the ryan's parked in the driveway with other individuals in the car. diana roper called the sheriff's department and she gave them the cover alls. the bloody cover alls that they recovered were booked into evidence. >> when diana roper later ...

But heil's biggest question involved motive and the prosecution's game that cooper killed the ryans in order to steal their station wagon. >> the 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 walked away from the prison with no money, all of it was right there for him to take and it was not touched. >> heil also disputed the prosecution's theory that the killer worked alone. the sheer number of wound...