Page 23 - Josh Ryan News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

On the ryans' bed sheet, supposedly from a prison-issued sneaker. >> kottmeier claimed these were only manufactured and sold to prisons. in fact, it was a style of shoe readily available, very common tennis shoes with a very common shoe print. >> the question now was whether these were innocent mistakes by investigators or something more. norm hiel was about to learn that before they turned their attention to cooper, police had been given other solid leads, including from the sole survivor. >> 8-year-old josh ryan was able to communicate to staff at the hospital that the people who had attacke...

Who did this. >> kottmeier showed the jury the hatchet found in the lesion house and the bloody footprint found in the ryans' 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 videotape of the lone survivor, josh ryan. >> have you tried to forget what happened that night? >> yeah. ...

But by the time of the trial, josh ryan had changed his story. >> when josh was pressed to what he had seen, he is very specific. he only saw one person that had very bushy, fuzzy hair. >> did you see what that shadow by the bathroom was doing? >> no. >> how many shadows did you see? >> just one. >> just one? >> the deputy saw nothing strange about josh changing his story. >> especially with an 8-year-old boy. you don't know what he's seen. you don't know what he remembers. >> have you seen those before? >> based on my 30-plus years in law enforcement, the initial comments of eyewitnesses are ...

Was an ex-marine with loaded guns in the bedroom suggested to hiel that there had been more than one killer. for a time, san bernardino police apparently agreed with that conclusion. >> the sheriff's department was 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 d...

Emotional video tape, josh ryan. >> have you tried to forget what happened that night? >> yeah. >> what have you done to try to forget it? >> think happy thoughts. >> cooper argued he mishandled the investigation but after seven days of deliberations, the jury found kevin cooper guilty on all counts. >> there is no question. there is no doubt about the guilt of kevin coop er and spen the rest of his days in hell. >> we the jury determine the penalty shall be death. >> kevin cooper spend the next two decades on death row. but in 2003, a new defense team