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Josh ryan had changed his story. >> when josh was pressed to what he had seen, he was very specific. he saw one person with bushy, fuzzy hair. >> did you see him by the bathroom, what he was doing? >> no. >> how many shadows did you see? just the one? >> deputy sharp saw nothing suspicious about josh ryan's changing story. >> the victim interviews can change. especially with an 8-year-old boy, you don't know what he's seen. you don't know what he remembers. >> based on my 30 plus years experience in law enforcement, the initial comments of eyewitnesses are usually the most accurate. there's a ...

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...

Emotional videotape of the lone survivor, josh ryan. >> have you tried to forget what happened that night? >> yeah. >> what have you tried to do to forget it? >> i cut myself. >> police argue that the police mishandled evidence in the investigation. but after seven days of deliberations, the jury found kitchen cooper guilty on all counts. >> there is no question. there is no doubt about the guilt of kevin cooper. the only justice in this case is for kevin cooper to face his maker and then spend the rest of his days in hell. >> we the jury of the above-entitled cause, determine that the penalty...

Hills sits less than 40 miles from los angeles. there, peggy ryan, a horse trainer, and her husband, doug, lives on a ranch with her children. 10-year-old and josh. josh's friend, chris hughes, was invited to spend the night. >> in chino, multiple homicide. we have four fatal victims. one victim, approximately 8 years of age. the eyes open, however, there is no response. >> the next morning, chris hughes' father discovered the lifeless lies 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 ...

Kevin's blood type. >> other evidence prosecutors claim linked cooper to the murders was a bloody footprint on the ryans' bed sheet, supposedly from a prison issued sneaker. >> colt mire 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 surviv...