not only multimillion counts of child cruelty and murder, but ross faced charges with explicitly exchanging with a minor. one day passed, then two, then on the fourth day word came, a verdict. we the jury find count one, we find the defendant guilty. guilty on all counts. i m sure you will never forget that moment. it s ludicrous. it s insanity. what would you say to the jury? i m disappointed and don t feel like they did their job. we wanted to know how the jury reached their decision. none of the jurors would speak to us on camera, but they said they played close attention to the video showing ross harris returning to his car at lunchtime. in fact, they wanted to re-examine it during deliberations. and the juror told us in his heart of hearts he says ross
bravado and of the state and the charges, we felt extremely confident that house of cards was going to collapse in trial. in october 2016, more than two years after the death of his son, ross harris went on trial for murder. death. deception. and a double life. chuck boring, the lead prosecutor, told the jury why ross s story had never added up. that chick-fil-a video showed cooper wide away. that drive was too short to forget a toddler. the car seat was just inches behind ross. and at ross s office there was a photo of cooper and a gift from cooper. he even sent a text to leanna in the afternoon about cooper. when you getting my buddy, it said. none of that jogged his memory? there was just cue after cue after cue, that if he had actually forgotten would have triggered something.
knew that day, ross was ross must have left him in the car. it made sense because she knew ross so well. he could be forgetful. when she saw the video, she recognized that guy, too. the overly social guy chatting away. he would just talk to everybody. very outgoing, very vocal. he didn t he never met a stranger. but leanna also told the jury how ross looked when she first saw him at the police station. she says he was in terrible pain. it was very difficult to see him like that. this was the true face of ross grief and guilt, the defense said. and leanna explained to the jury why she asked ross that question that made investigators so suspicious.
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compelling case pointing to his guilt. what would the jury decide? here with the conclusion to our story is andrea king. ross harris, the man whose ex-wife said never met a stranger was about to have his future decided by 12 of them. how are you all feeling as the jury went out to deliberate? i didn t think there was any chance of them coming back with guilty on anything that had to do with cooper. ross cousin kate said nothing she had seen in trial swayed her belief in ross innocence. you can hold a gun to my head and tell me that i had to say that ross hurt cooper on purpose and it will never come out of my mouth. it will never come out of my mouth. ross best friend billy was equally confident. the prosecution did not do well at all. they did not prove the motive. they didn t get close to it. in fact, i feel like their witnesses could have been defense witnesses. the jury took its time to deliberate the charges.