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 the hatchet had been used in the murders and they found a sheathe to a hand axe laying right out in the middle of the floor in a position that the first deputying walking through the house could not have missed it. they would have been blind to miss that sheathe. cooper also said that during his two days in the house, he smoked multiple cigarettes. but when lease collected the evidence, they only collected one cigarette butt and the rest of the cigarette butts somehow disappeared. later on, when they found the ryan station wagon in long beach, the first time it was inspected, there were no