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House. it wasn't me. it must have been someone else who did this. >> kottmeier countered the testimony by showing the jury the hatchet sheathe found in the lease house and the bloody footprint found in the ryens' bedroom. >> in the folds of that sheet was a half-bloody footprint. now those soles were unique. and we were able to determine that the shoe print was made by a prison-issue pro ked tennis shoe. >> blood found at the murder scene also led back to cooper. >> a-41 was a single drop blood in the hallway and cooper matched it. >> finally, kottmeier played the emotional videotaped testimon...

>> cooper said hd already set out hitchhiking to mexico by the time the mders took place. he went into hiding when he became the most wanted man in california. norm hile hired former fbi agent tom parker to look into cooper's case. >> when you're conducting an investigation, especially one as complex as this one, you essentially collect the evidence and let the evidence lead you to a suspect. what they did in this case was exactly the opposite. as word of the murders got out, the sheriff's department learned that kevin cooper had escaped and that started what we refer to in law enforcement as ...

What they did in this case was exactly the opposite. as word of the murders got out, the sheriff's department learned that kevin cooper had escaped and that started what we refer to in law enforcement as tunnel vision. sheriff tidwell held a big press conference. they started with a suspect and they then started collecting evidence to prove their theory. >> but if kevin cooper wasn't the killer, why did the hatchet sheathe and prison-issued tobacco found at larry lease's home link him to the murders? >> a couple of deputies went over to the lease house, walked through it and really didn't see ...