a paint brush and went like this. it was splattered. their feet were sticking to the floor, they were so inundated with blood. at the time we didn t know about the murder, and we just thought, i don t know what they ve been doing, slaughtering pigs or whatever, but we re out of here. slonaker never reported the incident, because she claimed a uniformed sheriff s deputy was at the bar that night, and she assumed he would follow up. in 2004, norm hile fought for a new trial for kevin cooper in front of u.s. district court judge marilyn huff in san diego. in his appeal, hile presented christine slonaker s testimony, and to his surprise, the state responded by inadvertently revealing a previously unknown piece of evidence provided by a
norman hile now felt he had enough evidence to successfully fight for kevin s life. but as he prepared his appeals, yet another witness came forward, fully 20 years after the crime. i hear on the tv set that they re going to put kevin cooper to death, and i went, are you kidding me? on the night of the murders, christine slonaker was eating at the canyon corral, a local country/western bar just two miles from the ryens home. as we were eating, in through the back swinging doors of the kitchen come these three guys. i noticed that one of them was covered in blood. not just little spots. this was like someone had taken
at the time we didn t know about the murder, and we just thought, i don t know what they ve been doing, slaughtering pigs or whatever, but we re out of here. slonaker never reported the incident, because she claimed a uniformed sheriff s deputy was at the bar that night, and she assumed he would follow up. in 2004, norm hile fought for a new trial for kevin cooper in front of u.s. district court judge marilyn huff in san diego. in his appeal, hile presented christine slonaker s testimony, and to his surprise, the state responded by inadvertently revealing a previously unknown piece of evidence provided by a
but as he prepared his appeals, yet another witness came forward, fully 20 years after the crime. i hear on the tv set that they re going to put kevin cooper to death, and i went, are you kidding me? on the night of the murders, christine slonaker was eating at the canyon corral, a local country/western bar just two miles from the ryens home. as we were eating, in through the back swinging doors of the kitchen come these three guys. i noticed that one of them was covered in blood. not just little spots. this was like someone had taken a paint brush and went ffffwew. it was splattered. their feet were sticking to the floor, they were so inundated with blood.
woman named laurel eppler who lived near the canyon corral bar. here was a log that showed that laurel eppler kuehled into the sheriff s department the day of the murders, saying she had found a short-sleeve blue shirt that she thought had blood on it near the road in front of the bar. one of the employees at the bar that night said one of the men might have had on a blue shirt. the criminal bulletin showed that they were looking for three white men and one of them was wearing a blue shirt. hile would argue that the neighbor s eyewitness testimony along with the testimony of christine slonaker and josh s original account all pointed to three suspects. and in the new documents released by the prosecution, hile was about to discover the name of one of the three suspects and that man also happened to be a convicted murderer.