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It wasn't me. it must have been someone else who did this. >> kottmeier countered the testimony by showing the jury the hatchet 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 testimony of the lone s...

>> i cross-examined him for a day and a half. cooper said, yeah, i was at the lease house. i never went up to the ryen house. it wasn't me. it must have been someone else who did this. >> kottmeier countered the testimony by showing the jury the hatchet 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 ...

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 ...

>> i lived on the mean streets of pittsburgh when i was growing up. i became a car thief. i landed in the california institution for men in 1983 because of a burglary conviction in los angeles. i was there a couple months. i was out walking around, and there was a hole in the fence, and i just ran. >> mr. cooper started wandering through farms and pastures, areas that were off of the roadways. and ultimately found his way to the lease house. >> when i got to the lease house, i called a couple ex-girlfriends, asked them to send me money. i watched tv, ate, tried to figure out what's next. but i...

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...