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>> okay. . >> did ross love his little boy? >> yes, he did. very much. >> did you ever see ross express anger or hatred or malice toward his son ever? >> no, never. >> reporter: then came that terrible day. the courtroom was silent as leanna described arriving at cooper's day care and being told he wasn't there. >> she said, he didn't come today. and i just kind of went into a panic. i didn't know what to do. i was just -- it didn't make sense. cooper was supposed to be at day care. i was supposed to be the one to pick him up. it didn't make sense. the only thing that made sense to me, based o...

Appeal, vic reynolds, the top prosecutor in cobb county believes it won't change the outcome. >> i have complete confidence in the jury's verdict, complete confidence in the evidence that was presented, and i believe when the day comes, this verdict will, in fact, be affirmed. >> reporter: but ross harris' supporters say there is another tragedy in all this. they believe his conviction will make things worse for parents who make similar, terrible mistakes. >> this sets the precedent that anyone that does this is a monster. and that's just not the case. this really can happen to anyone. >> repo...

And there was another detail the surveillance video from home depot revealed. ross had gone to lunch with some friends. there he is getting picked up. but look here, nearly an hour later, there he is again getting dropped off at his car. he opens the driver's door and throws a box of light bulbs onto the front seat. ross never told detectives about going back to his car in the middle of the day. did he lie about going to the car or did he just not disclose that he had gone to the car? >> i think when you look at it in totality, he absolutely lied about it. >> reporter: investigators were sure ...

It's how quickly he would have forgotten cooper if it happened the way he said. we decided to retrace ross' route that day. we're making a right out of the chick-fil-a parking lot and we have to cross a lane of traffic just as ross did to get to this u-turn right here. he made this u-turn very quickly and then headed toward this intersection up here. and this is a critical intersection coming up. it was here ross had to make a decision. going left would have taken him to cooper's day care. going straight on would have taken him to work. he went straight on. that means he forgot cooper was in t...

He was communicating with a woman -- >> right. >> reporter: -- ten minutes before he left with cooper? >> right. we were able to determine that he had been messaging at least six different women throughout that day, sending pictures of himself, asking for photographs. >> reporter: prosecutors believed ross harris was in the grip of an escalating obsession with sex. and they came to an awful conclusion. that ross wanted so badly to be rid of the constraints of family and fatherhood, he decided to kill his own child. does being a creep with women make him a child killer? >> absolutely not. in th...