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Chamber. >> shouldn't get away with it. >> seek the death penalty as we have all along. >> cooper's trial began on october 23rd, 1984. >> i cross-examined cooper for a day and a half. cooper said, yeah, i was at the lease house but i never went up to the ryen house. it wasn't me. must have been somebody else that did this. >> kottmeier showed the hatchet in the lease house and the bloody footprint found in the ryan's bedroom. >> in the folds of the 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-issued pro k...

Josh ryan. he was still breathing but barely. he was immediately airlifted to a nearby hospital. >> i first arrived with tidwell. each of the victims had a combination of hatchet and knife wounds. this was such a brutal crime. >> the severity of the crime puts it on another level. i think we'd be lying if we didn't say that. >> we were trying to figure out a motive for these killings and couldn't come up with anything. nothing made sense. >> we heard there had been a murder up on the hill. as a community, our hearts grieved for these people. they're horse people. they were our people. >> how c...

Lifeless bodies of his son, chris, as well as doug and peggy ryan and their daughter jessica. among the carnage, first responders also found 8-year-old josh ryan. he was still breathing, but barely. he was immediately air lifted to a nearby hospital. i first arrived with the sheriff. each of the victim had a combination of hatchet and knife wounds. this was such a brutal crime -- >> the severity of the crime puts it on another level. i think we would be lying if we didn't say that. >> we were trying to figure out a motive for the killings. we couldn't come up with anything. nothing made sense....

Told by two different bystanders that the night of the murders, around the time that the murders had occurred, they had seen a car that matched the description of the ryans' station wagon speeding down the road from the ryans' house and that in that car were white men. >> as it turned out, josh ryan, the sole survivor of the attacks, also reported seeing multiple intruders. deputy dale sharp interviewed josh ryan just hours after he was rushed to the hospital. >> it wasn't good. he had at least one hatchet wound to his head. and he had had his throat slit. >> josh was unable to speak, so deput...

Was invited to spend the night. >> on a hill overlooking chino, the scene of a multiple homicide. we have four fatal victims. one victim approximately 8 years of age. the eyes are open, however, there's no response. >> the next morning, chris hughes' father discovered the lifeless bodies of his son chris as well as doug and peggy ryan and their daughter jessica. among the carnage, first responders also found 8-year-old josh ryan. he was still breathing but barely. he was immediately airlifted to a nearby hospital. >> i first arrived with tidwell. each of the victims had a combination of hatche...