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Just tiny little perfection. >> i just had this vision of, you know, ross and cooper on the couch and ross is just goofing around with him and get on the floor with him. and it's hilarious. >> any extra thing that cooper could do, any milestone that he hit, he would share it with everyone. one of the conversations i had with ross, he said that it was so cool that cooper knew his name. and he said, and he loves to yell it at me. so instead of saying dad. he would just go ross. and he would yell ross at him all the time. >> reporter: it was ross who took cooper to day care most mornings. and tha...

>> reporter: but it was something else ross told leanna that really got the investigators' attention. >> i was up and down, dreading he was going to look terrible. >> he said it while he was talking to leanna that, you know, he was dreading how cooper was going to look when he got him out. >> reporter: almost like -- >> he knew what was there. exactly. he knew what was going to be found. >> reporter: they were also struck by how calm leanna seemed to be. and by this surprising question. >> did you say too much? >> reporter: detectives wondered what she meant. they came back into the room and t...

Mother drove one block, a 30-second drive, and in a matter of that brief time forgot that her child was in the car. >> reporter: what we're talking about here, there is actually a name for this. >> this is referred to as forgotten baby syndrome, which actually describes a phenomenon in which normal, attentive and loving parents, for reasons we don't fully understand, lose awareness that their child is in a car. >> reporter: diamond says it can happen to anyone. distraction and exhaustion often play a role. he adds, once the child is forgotten the brain plays a dangerous trick. >> what's remark...

Tossed the light bulbs onto the front seat. look at this angle of the video. >> the proof was his head never got below the roof of that car. the proof showed that he was turning in the other direction. >> reporter: but what about a those reminders during the day? shouldn't one of those have triggered his mind to say, wait. cooper. where's cooper? >> i think that's a fair question to ask. if ross had forgotten that he had a son, seeing a picture of cooper would have reminded him that he had a son. he didn't forget he had a son. once ross slipped into his work day, he had every reason to believe...

Do know that i have five children and i forget things in an instant. it just happens. is it fair to say, oh, he wouldn't be able to forget something so fast? >> this is something that if you look at it alone, can somebody forget something that fast? is it possible? yes. but then you look at the location of the car seat and all of the other factors together and that showed us that he could not have. >> reporter: investigators noted that cooper's car seat was just inches from the driver's seat. and when they looked at surveillance video from ross' work parking lot, they saw this, video of ross b...