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Woman -- >> right. >> reporter: -- ten minutes before he left with cooper? >> right. we were able to determine that he had been messaging at least six different women throughout that day, sending pictures of himself, asking for photographs. >> reporter: prosecutors believed ross harris was in the grip of an escalating obsession with sex. and they came to an awful conclusion. that ross wanted so badly to be rid of the constraints of family and fatherhood, he decided to kill his own child. does being a creep with women make him a child killer? >> absolutely not. in this case, though, it showed u...

In tuscaloosa, alabama, and that's where his close friend, billy kirkpatrick, met him. you called him a massive dork? >> massive dork, yes. >> reporter: why did you call him that? >> because he's a massive dork. >> reporter: billy says ross was a lot of fun to be around. he remembers one beach holiday in particular. >> ross took his guitar and, like, walked up to people on the beach and started conversations because that's who he is. >> reporter: was he playing for them, too? >> he was. they didn't ask him to. but he was playing. >> reporter: but ross seemed to settle down when he met his wife...

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Cards was going to collapse in trial. >> reporter: in october, 2016, more than two years after the death of his son, ross harris went on trial for murder. >> death. deception. and a double life. >> reporter: chuck boring, the lead prosecutor, told the jury why ross' story had never added up. that chick-fil-a video showed cooper wide awake. that drive that was too short to forget a toddler. the car seat was just inches behind ross. and at ross' office there was a photo of cooper and a gift from cooper. he even sent a text to leanna in the afternoon about cooper. when you getting my buddy, it sa...

>> oh, my boy. >> reporter: but it was something else ross told leanna that really got the investigators' attention. >> i was up and down, dreading he was going to look terrible. >> he said it while he was talking to leanna that, you know, he was dreading how cooper was going to look when he got him out. >> reporter: almost like -- >> he knew what was there. exactly. he knew what was going to be found. >> reporter: they were also struck by how calm leanna seemed to be. and by this surprising question. >> did you say too much? >> reporter: detectives wondered what she meant. they came back into...