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[Music] you've been with us for the two decades that we've investigated the case
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of kevin cooper the california death row inmate who has always professed his innocence tonight
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there are new developments that may help cooper in his bid for freedom our investigation began with letters
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from san quentin prison outside san francisco i'm kelly cooper i'm on death row he claimed he had been framed for the
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murder of four people it was a terrible home invasion in chino hills california one night in 1983 a family of four
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with a young boy who was overnight guest authorities say more than one weapon was
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used in the brutal murders four of them died one survived even though his throat had been cut
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did you have some injuries yeah my throat was slashed got stabbed here hit by an axe here screwdriver punctured my
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back my lung broke three ribs authorities then arrested and sentenced to death a young black man named kevin cooper for
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the crime this occurred in a upper middle class neighborhood horse country finding somebody to pin it on was very
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important and kevin cooper was a convenient person dependent on the problem was they didn't have the
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evidence there is enormous amount of evidence that suggests three or four white perpetrators
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tom parker i'm a retired fbi agent i was brought into this case at the request of the lead attorney the
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more i dug into it i began to realize that there was something seriously wrong with the case you
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believe that evidence was planted and tampered with i don't believe that i know that
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they find me it's very hard for the system to try to correct a mistake i think they got the wrong guy but the
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state says it's case closed i am 100 percent certain kevin cooper committed these
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murders the only thing that keeps me going is the fact that i know i'm innocent he's got a lot of people pulling for him
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not only within the prison outside [Music] we've been trying to get this evidence
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tested over the last 15 years i've been working in the case and we've always been refused
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in 2018 kevin cooper got his wish california's governor ordered new dna tests but what do they reveal about cooper's
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case i was worried that there wouldn't be a lot of good data that could be obtained
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we've had the dna testing we do have a profile it's certainly not kevin