for a time, san bernardino police apparently agreed with that conclusion. the sheriff s department was told by two different bystanders that the night of the murders around the time that the murders had occurred, they had seen a car that matched the description of the ryan station wagon speeding down the road from the ryan s house and that in that car were white men. as it turned out, josh ryan, the sole survivor of the attacks also reportedly seeing multiple intruders. deputy dale sharp interviewed him in the hospital. he had at least one hatchet wound to the head and he had his throat slit. josh was unable to speak, so
norman heil felt he had enough evidence to fight for kevin s life. but as he prepared, another witness came forward. 20 years after the crime. i heard they re putting kevin cooper to death and i went, are you kidding me? on the night of the murders, kristen was eating at the canyon corral, a country western bar a couple miles from the ryan s home. as we were in the bar, come these three guys. i notice that one of them was covered in blood. not just little spots. this was like someone who had taken a paint brush and went
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results from the tan tee shirt also changed drastically. at the original trial, the tee shirt was only shown to have doug ryan s blood on it. when the tee shirt was tested at this time, there was additional blood located on the upper part of the tee shirt, across the chest that had not been noticed or photographed or even reported previous to this time. cooper s defense argued that the new blood on the tee shirt and the newly discovered blood found on a-41 could only have come from one place, the vile of cooper s blood that lab technician daniel gregonis had access to. the defense would strengthen that assertion by taking the vivie alf cooper s blood to an independent lab for analysis. it was discovered that the vial contained two different blood types and two different dna types indicating that additional blood from another
boyfriend, a man named lee furrow, drive up to their house in the wee hours of the morning. lee furrow comes rushing into the house wearing cover alls splattered with what looks to be spots of blood. he changes clothes and turns around and leaves. there were other people in the house and someone looked out the window and saw a white station wagon matching the ryan s parked in the driveway with other individuals in the car. diana roper called the sheriff s department and she gave them the cover alls. the bloody cover alls that they recovered were booked into evidence. when diana roper later learned that a hatchet was used in the murders, she again called police and said that lee furrows was missing from the tool belt. it would make sense that somebody like lee furrow would have killed the ryans.