sheath and the prison-issued tobacco found at larry lease s home link him to the murders? 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 a hatchet had been used in the murders. and they found a sheath to a hand ax laying right out in the middle of the floor in a position that the first deputies walking through the house could not have missed it. they would have had to been blind to miss that sheath. cooper also said that during his two days in the house, he smoked multiple cigarettes. but when police collected the evidence, they only collected one cigarette butt. and the rest of the cigarette butts somehow disappeared. later on, when they found the ryen station wagon in look beach, the first time it was inspected there were no
norm hile hired former fbi agent tom parker to look into cooper s case. when you re conducting an investigation, especially one as complex as this one, you essentially collect the evidence and let the evidence lead you to a suspect. what they did in this case was exactly the opposite. as word of the murders got out, the sheriff s department learned that kevin cooper had escaped, and that started what we refer to in law enforcement as tunnel vision. sheriff tidwell held a big press conference. they started with a suspect. and they didn t start collecting evidence to prove their theory. but if kevin cooper wasn t the killer, why did the hatchet sheath and the prison-issued tobacco found at larry lease s home link him to the murders? a couple of deputies went over to the lease house, walked through it, and really didn t see anything suspicious.
tobacco found at larry lease s home link him to the murders? 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 sheath to a hand ax laying right out in the middle of the floor in a position that the first deputies walking through the house could not have missed it. they would have had to have been blind to miss that sheath. cooper also said that during his two days in the house he smoked multiple cigarettes. but when police collected the evidence, they only collected one cigarette butt. the rest of the cigarette butts somehow disappeared. later on, when they found the ryen station wagon in long
on the same day the bodies were found, a chino hills resident stumbled onto another discovery. one of the murder weapons lying on the side of the road. the hatchet had the victims blood on it, but it didn t have any fingerprints on it. nearby, a tan, blood-stained t-shirt was also found. as the search continued, police received a tip from the ryen s next door neighbor, larry lease. mr. lease said i think you might be interested in seeing my rental house. the rental house supposedly unoccupied at the time of the murders, held a major piece of evidence. a sheath that fit the ax used in the murders. we knew that whoever had been in the lease house committed the murders at the ryen house.
norm hile hired former fbi agent tom parker to look into cooper s case. when you re conducting an investigation, especially one as complex as this one, you essentially collect the evidence and let the evidence lead you to a suspect. what they did in this case was exactly the opposite. as word of the murders got out, the sheriff s department learned that kevin cooper had escaped, and that started what we refer to in law enforcement as tunnel vision. sheriff tidwell held a big press conference. they started with a suspect. and they didn t start collecting evidence to prove their theory. but if kevin cooper wasn t the killer, why did the hatchet sheath and the prison-issued tobacco found at larry lease s home link him to the murders? a couple of deputies went