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Wouldn't be able to forget something so fast? >> this is something that if you look at it alone, can somebody forget something that fast? is it possible? yes. but then you look at the location of the car seat and all of the other factors together and that showed us that he could not have. >> reporter: investigators noted that cooper's car seat was just inches from the driver's seat. and when they looked at surveillance video from ross' work parking lot, they saw this, video of ross backing up before he parked. they were sure ross must have seen cooper when he backed up. we wanted to see for ou...

He would talk about. >> reporter: even prosecution witnesses wound up vouching for ross as a good dad. a teacher from cooper's day care. >> he would just spend quality time with him interacting with him doing the activities. >> reporter: and some of those women who testified for the prosecution about sexting with ross? even they agreed he seemed to love his kid. >> what would he say about his son? >> that he was great, and that he loved his son. >> he just talked about how much he loved him and how he would never do anything to hurt him and that kind of thing. >> reporter: but the woman who sh...

The sun. and parents pay the ultimate price for lives that are busy, distracted, sometimes overwhelming. police weren't able to save 22-month-old cooper harris a few years ago, and his death in hot car made headlines nationwide. >> new details in a tragic case we've been following, the death of a georgia toddler. >> reporter: but there was something different about cooper's story. something darker. because cooper's dad, ross harris, ended up being charged with a crime. accused not of forgetting cooper but of murdering him. and his murder weapon of choice, prosecutors said, was a hot car. but e...

Ross harris, the man whose ex-wife says never met a stranger, was about to have his future decided by 12 of them. how were you all feeling as the jury went out to deliberate? >> i didn't think there was any chance of them coming back with guilty on anything that had to do with cooper. >> reporter: ross' cousin katie said nothing she had seen at trial had swayed her belief in ross' innocence. >> you could hold a gun to my head and tell me that i had to say that ross hurt cooper on purpose, and it will never come out of my mouth. will never come out of my mouth. >> reporter: ross' best friend bi...

Route that day. we're making a right out of the chick-fil-a parking lot and we have to cross a lane of traffic just as ross did to get to this u-turn right here. he made this u-turn very quickly and then headed toward this intersection up here. and this is a critical intersection coming up. it was here ross had to make a decision. going left would have taken him to cooper's day care. going straight on would have taken him to work. he went straight on. that means he forgot cooper was in the car within two minutes of strapping him into his car seat and giving him a kiss. >> it does seem remarkab...