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Deputies were asked to go search the lease house again. by then, they knew the hatchet had been used in the murders. and they found a sheath to a hand ax laying right out in the middle of the floor in a position that the first deputies walking through the house could not have missed it. they would have had to have been blind to miss that sheath. >> cooper also said that during his two days in the house he smoked multiple cigarettes. >> but when police collected the evidence, they only collected one cigarette butt. the rest of the cigarette butts somehow disappeared. later on, when they found t...

Police believed cooper hid at the lease house before killing the ryens and chris hughes. with cooper still at large, san bernardino county sheriff floyd tidwell took to the airwaves. >> we have evidence in our possession that places, kevin cooper at the crime scene. and we have other evidence that gives us cause to believe that kevin cooper was responsible for the murders. >> police patrolled on both sides of the california/mexico border today seeking the escaped convict, kevin cooper. >> tidwell launched one of the largest manhunts in state history. circulating photos of cooper and the ryen's...

>> a couple of deputies went over to the lease house, walked through it, and really didn't see anything suspicious. a day or two later, other deputies were asked to go search the lease house again. by then they knew a hatchet had been used in the murders. and they found a sheath to a hand ax laying right out in the middle of the floor in a position that the first deputies walking through the house could not have missed it. they would have had to been blind to miss that sheath. >> cooper also said that during his two days in the house, he smoked multiple cigarettes. >> but when police collected...

Attention of the high-powered law firm orrick, herrington & sutclifse. they fought death penalty cases on a pro bono basis. >> one thing i've learned in now 25 years of representing people on death row, you're going to be fighting an uphill battle and you have a client whose life is in the balance is a very heavy burden. >> what hile could not dispute was cooper's criminal history, his escape from prison and his proximity to the murders. >> i lived on the main 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 ...

Trying to swim away from the scene of an alleged rape. >> the rape allegation was never pursued, because cooper now faced four counts of first degree murder. each carrying the death penalty. >> i hope you die! >> when cooper was returned to san bernardino, racial tensions boiled over. >> local authorities say they've received several calls from outraged residents who demanded cooper be sent to the gas chamber. >> they caught him. they should do away with him. >> we're seeking the death penalty ago we have all along. >> cooper's trial began on object 23rd, 1984. >> i cross-examined him for a da...