heard he was obsessed with the sexual contacts he had made outside his marriage. a parade of women took the stand. a woman ross said he was in love with, another woman he met at his home. we had sex. and a prostitute. did you actually engage in sexual acts with him back in may. yes, on three different occasions. this is one of the six women ross was communicating with on the day he says he forgot about cooper. at 5:26 a.m., within 17 seconds of your messages, did he respond? he did. did you have to consider the fact maybe all of these women were causing a distraction for ross which led to what happened versus that the women were actually a motive? no, absolutely. but when you look closely at the content of the messages and what s going back and forth, and specifically you are trying to prove to a jury this person had the intent in his mind to kill a child, you have to get to know that person. you have to get to know what they re made of.
the back seat, never even glanced inside as he tossed the light bulbs on to the front seat. look at this angle of the video. the proof was his head never got below the roof of that car. the proof showed that he was turning in the other direction. but what about those reminders during the day. shouldn t one of those have triggered his mind to say, wait, cooper, where s cooper? i think that s a fair question to ask. if ross had forgotten that he had a son, seeing a picture of cooper would have reminded him he had a son. he didn t forget he had a son. once ross slipped into his workday, he had every reason to believe that cooper was at the daycare. as for those witnesses who said ross seemed detached, they didn t know him, the defense argued, so they called people who did like his friend billy. in my opinion, just was incredibly loving and doting. a colleague from home depot.
when cooper was born, he was that s all he would talk about. even prosecution witnesses wound up vouching for ross as a good dad. a teacher from cooper s daycare. he would just spend quality time with him, interacting with him during the activities. and some of those women who testified for the prosecution about sexting with ross, even they agreed he seemed to love his kid. what would he say about his son? that he was great and that he loved his son. he just talked about how much he loved him and how he would never do anything to hurt him and that kind of thing. but the woman who should have known ross harris best was about to take the stand. she had something to say about the man who betrayed her and left her son to die, and it may be the last thing you d expect to hear. coming up cooper was the sweetest little boy. heartache laid bear. cooper s mom tells her story. i just kind of went into a panic.
harris meant to kill his son. the prosecution says the jury got it completely right. but hearing the word guilty was no cause for celebration. what i want to hear announced is you know, to bring cooper back. you can t get that from it. three weeks later, a judge sentenced ross harris to life in prison. the sentence in the court is life to serve confinement without parole. reporter: his defense sentenced an appeal arguing that they never should have allowed all the testimony about sex into the murder trial. and the defense says inaccurate information released early on about ross computer searches made it impossible for him to get a fair trial. our personal belief, not lawyer talk, our personal belief in knowing ross, in knowing this case better than anyone in the world, ross harris is an innocent man. are you going to keep
sidewalk. and she s told me that, you know, as long as she sat outside she could pretend like this wasn t happening because once she goes inside, you know, there s an empty bedroom where cooper s supposed to be. an empty crib. there s his toys, his pictures. it is not real if she doesn t go inside. katie says leanna was numb without her child and her husband. did she go through that emotion at any point, i m angry at you, how could you do this? i don t know she was ever angry at him. you go through that scenario as a spouse, would i be able to understand? she is such a composed woman and her faith i don t think would let her be angry at him for something he did not do intentionally. as cooper s family began to grieve, detectives started building their case against ross harris, and what they found convinced them this was no simple case of negligence. they believed this was