On the day of Cooper's death, Taylor says she was working in Conyers. She says she and Harris discussed his plans to go to a movie that afternoon and agreed that she would be the one to pick up Cooper from daycare.
Defense attorney Maddox Kilgore shows her an exhibit -- a printout of text messages between her and Harris. It said:
"Get to work OK?"
"Yup yup."
"We're going to go to an early movie, so I should be home close to 7.
(I responded about an hour and half later) "OK."
At 3:16 p.m., he texted: 'When are you getting my buddy?"
"He referred to Cooper a lot as his little buddy. We both did, but I think Ross used it more often than I did. I probably picked it up from him,.
Kilgore: You showed up at Little Aprons. Do you remember what time it was?
I really don't. Probably sometime between 4:30 and 5. I think Ieft Conyers about 4, and it would have taken me about 50 mimutes to get there.
Kilgore: What happened when you got there?
I walked into daycare just like any other day. They have a computer system you used to check the child in and out. I checked him out, but he hadn't been checked in for the day. That had happened before, so I didn't think anything of it.
The teacher looked at me and said, "What are you doing here?"
I said, "I'm here to get Cooper."
She said, "Cooper's not here."
I didn't understand. I thought she was joking. I even said, "Are you joking?" and kept looking around for him.
She said, "He didn't come today."
I just went into a panic. I didn't know what to do. I left the room and ran down to the front desk. They're telling me Cooper wasn't checked in today. Where's Cooper I can't find Cooper. I don't remember the exact words I said. I was starting to lose my ability to understand what was going on. I was -- it didn't make sense.
Ross must've left him in the car. That was the only thing that made sense. The only thing that clicked in my mind as a remote possibility. She begins weeping. He was never checked in.
They tried to get me to stay. I said, I'm not staying anywhere. I need to find my son and I need to find my husband.
A daycare worker joined her to drive over to the Treehouse, Harris's office building where he worked in IT for Home Depot.
She said she was calling Ross every two or three minutes and believed that ultimately he would answer and explain everything