was in the appeals courts, i never got a fair hearing, i would always get denied for one reason or the next. so i felt very bad. very discouraged until dna testing came along, and i had a shot. the state would perform dna tests on blood sample a-41, taken from the ryens hallway and blood on the tan shirt thought to have been thrown from their stolen station wagon. the results would determine whether kevin cooper lived or died. when you re not confident your company s data is secure, the possibility of a breach can quickly become the only thing you think about. that s where at&t can help. at at&t we monitor our network traffic so we can see things others can t. mitigating risks across your business. leaving you free to focus on what matters most.
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 a paint brush and went ffffwew. it was splattered. their feet were sticking to the floor, they were so inundated
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and in the closet, we found a small box of prison issued tobacco from chino institution for men. we checked with prison authorities. got names of any individuals that had escaped within the past week. all of a sudden, we had a suspect. kevin cooper. just two days before the murders, 25-year-old kevin cooper had escaped from the california institute for men, a prison just five miles from the ryens home. police believe he hid at the lease out before killing the ryens and chris hughes. with cooper still at large, san bernardino sheriff floyd tidwell took to the air waves. we have evidence in our possession that places kevin cooper at the crime scene. and we have other evidence that gives us cause to believe that
kevin cooper was responsible for the murders. police patrolled on both sides of the california/mexico border today, seeking the escaped convict kevin cooper. tidwell launched one of the largest man hunts in state history, circulating photoing of cooper and the ryens stolen station wagon. there is growing fear in the california community of chino. i want to know what the state officials are going to do. as pressure mounted to apprehend cooper, police caught a break. we recovered the ryens station wagon from a church parking lot in long beach. cooper had used that car to escape. for district attorney kottmeier, the motive behind the murders was now clear. cooper s motive was to get the hell out of chino hills.