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[Music] it was nearly 20 years ago that I started getting letters from San Quenton
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I'm Kevin Cooper I'm on death Road Cooper claimed he had been framed for the murder of four
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people I live under the threat of death 24 hours a day after all this time there's now
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compelling evidence that could finally settle this case once and for all there was a terrible home invasion
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in Chino Hills California One Night in 1983 there was a family of four with a young boy who is overnight
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guest four of them died one survived even though his throat had been cut did you have some injuries
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yeah oh my throat was slashed got stabbed here hit by an ax here screwdriver punctured my back my lung
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broke three ribs authorities say more than one weapon was used in the brutal murders the authorities then arrested
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and sentenced to death a young black man named Kevin Cooper for the [Music] crime this occurred in in a upper middle
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class neighborhood a horse country when you have such a gruesome crime in a neighborhood like that finding somebody
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to pin it on was very important and Kevin Cooper was a convenient person to pin it on the
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problem was they didn't have the evidence I believe the evidence was planted against them because they were
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under great pressure to solve a brutal horrible crime against a white family I am very confident no more than confident
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100% certain Kevin Cooper committed these murders those people said that I killed
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four people and attempted to kill a fifth person in four minutes how the hell was that
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possible I've always heard that maybe Kevin Cooper didn't do it and that there might be someone else out there I need
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to know cuz I lost four people that night there is abundant evidence suggesting three or four white
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perpetrators we have the person who we think killed the Ryan and can I ask you point blank did you kill the Ryan family
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no I did not or Christopher Hughes no I did not I have nothing to do with [Music]
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this I'm Tom Parker I'm a retired FBI agent I was brought into this case at the request of the lead attorney who
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wanted me to come in and just go through this case e to Z the more I dug into it I began to
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realize that there was something seriously wrong with the case I think Kevin is innocent I also
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think that he was the victim of a horribly racist prosecution the criminal justice system
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isn't good at reversing chorus once somebody has been convicted there's a momentum that tends to take them to the
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execution chamber he's very determined he's got a lot of people pulling for him not only within
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the prison but outside it was thrilling to see the reaction from everybody from the pope to
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Kim Kardashian and a lot of others in between I think they got the wrong eye Ango
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