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Home. >> we had sex. >> reporter: and a prostitute. >> did you actually engage in sexual acts with him back in may of -- >> yes, on three different occasions. >> reporter: this witness is one of the six women ross was communicating with the day he says he forgot about cooper. >> and at 5:46 a.m., within 17 seconds of your messages, did he respond? >> he did. >> reporter: did you have to consider the fact that maybe all these women were causing a distraction for ross, which then led to what happened versus that the women were actually a motive? >> oh, absolutely. but when you look closely at th...

There he is getting picked up. but look here, nearly an hour later, there he is again getting dropped off at his car. he opens the driver's door and throws a box of light bulbs onto the front seat. ross never told detectives about going back to his car in the middle of the day. did he lie about going to the car or did he just not disclose that he had gone to the car? >> i think when you look at it in totality, he absolutely lied about it. >> reporter: investigators were sure ross was hiding something. they believed there was no way he could have opened that door and missed his son in the back ...

Was, she stuck it out for nearly two days of testimony. >> that woman had every reason in the world to hate ross harris. and despite all of that, despite all of that, she was willing to come testify for him because she knew what the truth was. >> reporter: and then, in his final question to leanna, ross' attorney wanted to make something clear. leanna was there for one reason only -- she believed that what happened to cooper was a mistake, not a crime. and now she was ready to walk away. >> how do you feel about your ex-husband? >> he ruined my life. he destroyed my life. i'm humiliated. i may...

>> reporter: what we're talking about here, there is actually a name for this. >> this is referred to as forgotten baby syndrome, which actually describes a phenomenon in which normal, attentive and loving parents, for reasons we don't fully understand, lose awareness that their child is in a car. >> reporter: diamond says it can happen to anyone. distraction and exhaustion often play a role. he add, once the child is forgotten, the brain plays a dangerous trick. >> what's remarkable about these cases is that these parents actually create sort of an artificial memory that the children are actu...

Accidentally left cooper at home. >> she texted her neighbor and asked her to just go look. she has a key to her apartment. just go look. see if he's there. and she was like, maybe the house will just be torn up. it had be a little toddler tornado when she gets there, but he'll be there. obviously, he wasn't. >> reporter: leanna rushed over to ross' office to see if cooper was there. it was at home depot that a police officer tracked her down. their conversation was recorded as he gave her the worst possible news. >> there ain't no easy way to tell you this. your child is deceased. i'm very so...