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Timeline for Cooper Harris Case (in 3 parts)
Sources:
RH's Reddit
MSM Reports
Published Search Warrants
Probable Cause hearing 03Jul2014
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Background Timeline
2011 RH quits his three-year job as a police dispatcher in Tuscaloosa AL, in order to attend college full-time. He and LH move in with her mother (parents?). His education is 100% funded by student loans.
2011-2014 RH posts frequently at ***********. Topics include his schooling and career, career advice to others, football, coaching/officiating, web-development advice, his guitars and guitar-playing virtuosity and tips, advice to others about the best places to eat/drink, his anti-abortion stance, his claim to be closely related to Elvis Presley (says his great-grandmother was the sister of Elvis's grandmother), a desire to become VP at a Fortune 50 company (relative to the parents of a former girlfriend who felt he was going nowhere,) and more. He claims he earns $61,500 in his position with Home Depot.
MAY 2012 RH and LH move to Marietta GA from Tuscaloosa AL immediately following RH's graduation from UA, for Ross's new web development position with Home Depot. LH is ~7 months pregnant with Cooper at this time. They join a local church, where RH plays guitar for the worship band and LH volunteers in the nursery. LH is a registered dietician. RH also coaches/referees high school sports.
AUGUST 2012 Cooper is born. He is an only child. His parents, who allegedly suffered with fertility issues prior to his conception, have been married since 2006.
2013-2014 RH sexually interacts electronically as well as in person with females he meets online, including at least one who was only 16. LH is said to be aware of infidelity at some point. Some electronic sexual sessions occur in the presence of his baby and his sleeping wife. He researches GA criminal statutes and penalties related to sexual activity with a minor.
AUGUST 2013 Cooper turns one year old.
APRIL 2014 RH is unhappy w/Home Depot; says he was passed over for promotion. Feels angry.
Within two months of JUNE 18, 2014 RH accesses the Child-Free Sub-Reddit, reading at least 4 articles (and discussion threads?) on the subject. He researches How to survive prison, watches a TV program on the Turn Around (or Look Back) program, which reminds parents to always look in the back seat to prevent forgetting a child there; RH would later tell LE he had practiced it often. He also visits several web sites showing graphic images or videos of people dying or being killed.
MAY 2014 RH interviews with Chik-Fil-A Corporate; does not get the job. Feels depressed.
MAY 2014 (6 wks before 6/18/14) Cooper gets a new forward-facing big-boy car seat.
JUNE 5, 2014 RH is sexting w/a female whom he informs that his child and wife are present. When the other participant, upon learning this, asks RH whether he has any conscience at all, he answers: Nope.
~June 5, 2014 Although Cooper has been riding in his new car seat for ~4 weeks, RH switches with LH at this time, going back to using the too-small, rear-facing car seat Cooper will die in two weeks later, on June 18.
JUNE 13, 2014 RH watches a video for the second time: Veterinarian Ernie Ward's demonstration of the suffering dogs are subjected to when left in a hot car, including details of temperature increases and effects as time passes over a 30-minute period. Closing himself inside a vehicle on a hot day, with all four windows cracked open at least one inch, Dr. Ward documented his own physical and mental distress as the minutes ticked by and the temperature rose, noting that it would be much worse for a dog who has no control and no understanding of what is happening to it. Emphasized in the video are the dog's helplessness, fear, panic, vulnerability, suffering, and the despair of awaiting a rescue that does not come. Dr. Ward stresses that his own significant discomfort as a human is a fraction of what a dog would experience. (Unclear: date/time RH watched this video for the first time.)
Some time prior to the evening of JUNE 18, 2014 RH has deleted multiple records from his phones, computers, and presumably other electronic devices.
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JUNE 18, 2014 the day of Cooper's death
06:30 LH gets up, gets ready for work.
07:00 RH and Cooper are up after 7:00. They watch cartoons in bed.
07:15 LH leaves the house for a work . She is a registered dietician, reportedly for DaVita.
* Note: LH works out of the home, per Stoddard @7/3/14 hearing.
???? (After 8:30) RH leaves w/Cooper, allegedly headed for Chik-Fil-A, then day care, then work.
* Note: RH usually took Cooper to day care; he drove him 6 of the 9 work mornings prior to June 18.
* Note: RH & LH usually traded off picking up Cooper, based on schedules/convenience.
* Note: Cooper's day care is Little Apron Academy, Home Depot's proprietary day care, located at Home Depot Corporate, 2455 Paces Ferry Rd SE, Atlanta, GA.
09:00 RH & Cooper arrive at the Vinings Chik-Fil-A, 2485 Cumberland Pkwy SE, Atlanta, GA.
09:00 to 09:19 RH and an alive, happy Cooper have breakfast inside CFA, confirmed by video.
09:19 RH says he buckled Cooper tightly into his rear-facing car seat & exchanged kisses w/him.
* Note: Cooper was several inches taller than the maximum guideline for this rear-facing car seat.
* Note: The car seat was situated in the center of the back seat, rear-facing.
* Note: Cooper's head would have been in clear sight and approx. 6 away from the driver (RH).
09:19 RH & Cooper leave Chik-Fil-A.
09:19 RH glances right at the Cumberland turnaround; heads toward the Paces Ferry intersection.
09:19 30-40 secs. later, RH stays on Cumberland instead of turning left at Paces Ferry.
* Note: This means he failed to turn toward Little Apron, and headed toward the Treehouse.
* Note: From Chik-Fil-A to Little Apron Academy is approx 0.02 mi.
* Note: From Chik-Fil-A to the Treehouse building is approx. 0.6 mi.
09:25 RH arrives at work, drives past a parking space, then reverses to re-position.
*Note: He parks in the back of the lot, between another vehicle and a grassy area.
*Note: Address of the Treehouse building is 2600 Cumberland Pkwy SE, Atlanta GA.
09:25 Once parked, RH looks to his right to pick up his laptop on the front passeger seat.
09:25 RH remains in the vehicle for approx 30 secs. before exiting it and walking to the building.
* Note: He has just left Cooper in a sealed vehicle on the day predicted to be the hottest yet this year.
All day: RH juggles up to 6 electronic sex conversations, including sexting graphic photos.
All day: RH participates in open chat w/3 friends who work at a different HD office.
10:25 After one hour, Cooper has most likely expired from hyperthermia after suffering greatly.
11:30 Lunchtime (11:30 12:30)
* Note: Lunch partners that day were Alex Hall and Winston Milling. They both work at the Corporate Home Depot location, not at the Treehouse building where RH works. They both went to school with RH at UA. The two friends, along with a third friend, Jason Abdug(sp?), are RH's business partners in a side web-development company called Ninth-Hour.
11:?? Two HD employees, AH and WM, pick up RH for lunch in a green car. AH drives.
Lunch They eat at the Publix hot bar, go to UPS store. (This Publix is near the Chik-Fil-A.)
Lunch At RH's request, they then go to Home Depot store for 10 minutes for vanity light bulbs.
12:42 Green car drops off RH at his car in the Treehouse parking lot and drives off.
12:42 RH opens driver's door, tosses bulbs into front seat w/head turned to left, toward front of car.
* Note: The tossing and description of the head turn is from Stoddard's testimony 7/3/14.
12:42 As RH walks away, another person on foot approaches. Once they pass, RH stops, looks back.
12:42 RH watches the other person walk past the death car; RH appears to make a cell phone call.
12:42 RH returns to his office inside the Treehouse building.
After lunch RH is still sexting; also has made arrangements w/friends re movie after work.
01:30 RH receives a group email from Cooper's day care teacher. (Unknown: Did he read it?)
03:16 RH messages LH, When you gonna get my buddy? (alleged by defense @ 7/3/14 hearing)
* This may conflict w/Stoddard @ 7/3/14 hearing, regarding whether texts were received/exchanged.
03:45 RH posts msg to open chat, telling friends he'll be late for the movie.
* This conflicts w/RH's statement to LE that he left work early @4:16 in order to make the movie.
* Note: The movie theater is approximately a 5-10 minute drive from the Treehouse.
04:04 LH calls RH's cell phone; there is phone tag, then a brief apparent conversation (1 min?).
04:16 Outside temp approx 89 degrees. Est. temp in vehicle interior approx 120-140 degrees.
04:16 RH leaves building, enters stifling car, drives away immediately w/o opening any windows.
04:?? RH later claims he noticed Cooper when glancing right to change lanes heading to movie.
04:22 (6 mins. after leaving work) RH speeds into Akers Mill Center entrance, screeching tires.
* Note: Distance from Treehouse to scene is approx 1.8 to 3.2 miles, depending on route.
04:22 RH abruptly stops in the opposite lane of the Akers Mill Center roadway, near Uncle Maddio's.
* Note: Address of Maddio's is 2955 Cobb Pkwy, Ste 290, Atlanta GA.
04:22 RH opens driver-side rear door, removes Cooper from car seat with assistance from a bystander.
* Note: One or more witnesses thought RH claimed Cooper was choking; &/or yelled Call 911!
04:22 RH lay Cooper's body on the hot pavement next to the car.
* Note: Witnesses/LE observe Cooper is discolored, in rigor mortis, eyes half-open, tongue protruding.
04:22 RH may or may not have attempted CPR. The bystander begins CPR efforts.
04:22 RH moves away to other side of car, begins to make phone calls. Does not call 911 himself.
04:22 Witnesses observe erratic, dramatic, inappropriate behavior from RH.
04:22 Witnesses hear RH yell, What have I done? My son/child is dead!
04:23 First LE units arrive on scene. RH is allegedly on his cell phone at this time.
* Note: RH's phone shows calls to LH, Treehouse, Little Apron Academy. One is a 6-minute call.
???? EMT's arrive. CPR is suspended when Cooper is pronounced dead.
04:24 Lt. Farrell(sp?) approaches car, notes strong foul odor of death/decomposition, as do other LE.
* Note: Unit Commander at the Akers Mill scene was Lt. Farrell.(sp?) Witnesses at the Akers Mill scene were interviewed by Det. Raissi & Det. Murphy. Lead detective for the case is Phil Stoddard.
04:?? RH is instructed to get off the phone. He refuses, shouts *advertiser censored** you angrily at officer.
04:?? RH uncooperative. LE takes away RH's phone and detains him in back of LE vehicle.
04:45 LH is allegedly due to pick up Cooper at 4:45.
04:51 LH arrives at day care, learns Cooper not there; is calm. First remark is that RH left CH in car.
05:00 Start time for 22 Jump Street @AMC Pkwy Pointe 15 Theater, where RH's friends are.
*Note: Address for theater: 3101 Cobb Pkwy, Atlanta GA, approx 0.3 mi from scene @Maddio's.
???? LH's repeated calls to RH go to vm; day care employee TJ accompanies her to Treehouse.
???? LE meets LH at Treehouse, tells her Cooper is dead. She says, This was my worst nightmare.
*Note: Detectives who informed LH were Raissi and Stockinger.
05:?? RH's friend who paid for his movie ticket texts him from inside the theater, gets no reply.
05:?? 30 minutes later, friend exits movie to try to reach RH; several calls go to vm.
???? LH notifies her mother by phone that Cooper has died. LE overhears her mother's loud emotional reaction; notes that she asks LH why she is calm and not reacting. LH answers that she doesn't know, and that she must be in shock.
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Subsequently, after RH is in the custody of Cobb County LE:
RH is questioned; admits to having seen videos about leaving dogs in hot cars, seeing a TV documentary about leaving children in hot cars and how to prevent it. RH uses law enforcement lingo with investigators. LE notes that he does not seem to show legitimate emotional distress over the loss of his child.
He does repeatedly stress that this was my biggest fear.
*Note: Similarity to LH's statement, this was my biggest nightmare.
RH tells LE he had been a stickler for always following car seat guidelines to protect Cooper.
* This conflicts with the evidence that RH was using a car seat that day which was too small for Cooper, and that the straps were set in the lowest slots, appropriate for a small infant and not for a toddler.
RH tells LE that he and Cooper exchanged kisses before leaving Chik-Fil-A that day, because he always did this, every single time he buckled Cooper into his car seat. He claims it was because he always feared Cooper would be killed in a car accident, and wanted the child to know that daddy loves him, just in case.
LH declines to see Cooper, asks to see RH. Alone together in an interview room, they are surreptitiously observed by LE. After RH goes through his story with LH, she asks him, Did you tell them too much?
RH lies to LH regarding Cooper's appearance after death. He tells her Cooper looked peaceful, with eyes and mouth closed. He admits to her, I dreaded what he would look like.
The only time RH shows significant emotional distress is when discussing with LH that he will now lose his job, his fears for the future, and the unfairness of what is happening to him.
During the early moments and hours of the investigation, LE become aware of certain facts; warrants are issued; RH's office at HD is searched; Home Depot is cooperating completely. RH's vehicle is impounded as evidence.
LH tells LE that there have been intimacy problems in the marriage (and RH has been unfaithful?). She says that they have financial problems like so many other people these days, and that RH is in charge of the finances, as of recently.
RH tells LE there are no financial problems, and that the $4,000 recently charged to their credit card was for the purpose of racking up airline miles.
* Note: RH likely has significant school-loan debt, as he financed his entire education with loans. There are also two vehicle loans, plus a substantial amount charged to at least one credit card.
RH is arrested at approximately 10:00pm. When LE informs him he is being charged with murder, RH protests, But there was no malicious intent. He is booked and incarcerated.
Sometime shortly after his arrest and incarceration, allegedly within 5 hours, RH is giving someone information and instructions relating to how to cash in two insurance policies which existed on Cooper's life. One is a Home Depot employer-offered policy for $2,000. The other was obtained in November 2012, for $25,000.
Additional search warrants, are used to gather evidence from the Harris's home, Home Depot and the Treehouse, Little Apron Academy, and various computers, phones, and other electronic devices.
JUNE 25, 2014:
The Cobb County Medical Examiner announces the results of Cooper's autopsy. Cause of death is consistent with hyperthermia (extreme overheating). Manner of death is consistent with homicide based on known investigative information.
The CCME's autopsy report also noted (but these details were not disclosed until the 7/3/14 hearing) multiple fresh, unhealed scratch-type injuries to Cooper's face, as well as multiple abrasions on the back of his head; injuries that were presumably self-inflicted while Cooper was suffering, sealed up alone to die in the hot car that day.
Timeline for Cooper Harris Case (in 3 parts)
Sources:
RH's Reddit
MSM Reports
Published Search Warrants
Probable Cause hearing 03Jul2014
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Background Timeline
2011 RH quits his three-year job as a police dispatcher in Tuscaloosa AL, in order to attend college full-time. He and LH move in with her mother (parents?). His education is 100% funded by student loans.
2011-2014 RH posts frequently at ***********. Topics include his schooling and career, career advice to others, football, coaching/officiating, web-development advice, his guitars and guitar-playing virtuosity and tips, advice to others about the best places to eat/drink, his anti-abortion stance, his claim to be closely related to Elvis Presley (says his great-grandmother was the sister of Elvis's grandmother), a desire to become VP at a Fortune 50 company (relative to the parents of a former girlfriend who felt he was going nowhere,) and more. He claims he earns $61,500 in his position with Home Depot.
MAY 2012 RH and LH move to Marietta GA from Tuscaloosa AL immediately following RH's graduation from UA, for Ross's new web development position with Home Depot. LH is ~7 months pregnant with Cooper at this time. They join a local church, where RH plays guitar for the worship band and LH volunteers in the nursery. LH is a registered dietician. RH also coaches/referees high school sports.
AUGUST 2012 Cooper is born. He is an only child. His parents, who allegedly suffered with fertility issues prior to his conception, have been married since 2006.
2013-2014 RH sexually interacts electronically as well as in person with females he meets online, including at least one who was only 16. LH is said to be aware of infidelity at some point. Some electronic sexual sessions occur in the presence of his baby and his sleeping wife. He researches GA criminal statutes and penalties related to sexual activity with a minor.
AUGUST 2013 Cooper turns one year old.
APRIL 2014 RH is unhappy w/Home Depot; says he was passed over for promotion. Feels angry.
Within two months of JUNE 18, 2014 RH accesses the Child-Free Sub-Reddit, reading at least 4 articles (and discussion threads?) on the subject. He researches How to survive prison, watches a TV program on the Turn Around (or Look Back) program, which reminds parents to always look in the back seat to prevent forgetting a child there; RH would later tell LE he had practiced it often. He also visits several web sites showing graphic images or videos of people dying or being killed.
MAY 2014 RH interviews with Chik-Fil-A Corporate; does not get the job. Feels depressed.
MAY 2014 (6 wks before 6/18/14) Cooper gets a new forward-facing big-boy car seat.
JUNE 5, 2014 RH is sexting w/a female whom he informs that his child and wife are present. When the other participant, upon learning this, asks RH whether he has any conscience at all, he answers: Nope.
~June 5, 2014 Although Cooper has been riding in his new car seat for ~4 weeks, RH switches with LH at this time, going back to using the too-small, rear-facing car seat Cooper will die in two weeks later, on June 18.
JUNE 13, 2014 RH watches a video for the second time: Veterinarian Ernie Ward's demonstration of the suffering dogs are subjected to when left in a hot car, including details of temperature increases and effects as time passes over a 30-minute period. Closing himself inside a vehicle on a hot day, with all four windows cracked open at least one inch, Dr. Ward documented his own physical and mental distress as the minutes ticked by and the temperature rose, noting that it would be much worse for a dog who has no control and no understanding of what is happening to it. Emphasized in the video are the dog's helplessness, fear, panic, vulnerability, suffering, and the despair of awaiting a rescue that does not come. Dr. Ward stresses that his own significant discomfort as a human is a fraction of what a dog would experience. (Unclear: date/time RH watched this video for the first time.)
Some time prior to the evening of JUNE 18, 2014 RH has deleted multiple records from his phones, computers, and presumably other electronic devices.
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JUNE 18, 2014 the day of Cooper's death
06:30 LH gets up, gets ready for work.
07:00 RH and Cooper are up after 7:00. They watch cartoons in bed.
07:15 LH leaves the house for a work . She is a registered dietician, reportedly for DaVita.
* Note: LH works out of the home, per Stoddard @7/3/14 hearing.
???? (After 8:30) RH leaves w/Cooper, allegedly headed for Chik-Fil-A, then day care, then work.
* Note: RH usually took Cooper to day care; he drove him 6 of the 9 work mornings prior to June 18.
* Note: RH & LH usually traded off picking up Cooper, based on schedules/convenience.
* Note: Cooper's day care is Little Apron Academy, Home Depot's proprietary day care, located at Home Depot Corporate, 2455 Paces Ferry Rd SE, Atlanta, GA.
09:00 RH & Cooper arrive at the Vinings Chik-Fil-A, 2485 Cumberland Pkwy SE, Atlanta, GA.
09:00 to 09:19 RH and an alive, happy Cooper have breakfast inside CFA, confirmed by video.
09:19 RH says he buckled Cooper tightly into his rear-facing car seat & exchanged kisses w/him.
* Note: Cooper was several inches taller than the maximum guideline for this rear-facing car seat.
* Note: The car seat was situated in the center of the back seat, rear-facing.
* Note: Cooper's head would have been in clear sight and approx. 6 away from the driver (RH).
09:19 RH & Cooper leave Chik-Fil-A.
09:19 RH glances right at the Cumberland turnaround; heads toward the Paces Ferry intersection.
09:19 30-40 secs. later, RH stays on Cumberland instead of turning left at Paces Ferry.
* Note: This means he failed to turn toward Little Apron, and headed toward the Treehouse.
* Note: From Chik-Fil-A to Little Apron Academy is approx 0.02 mi.
* Note: From Chik-Fil-A to the Treehouse building is approx. 0.6 mi.
09:25 RH arrives at work, drives past a parking space, then reverses to re-position.
*Note: He parks in the back of the lot, between another vehicle and a grassy area.
*Note: Address of the Treehouse building is 2600 Cumberland Pkwy SE, Atlanta GA.
09:25 Once parked, RH looks to his right to pick up his laptop on the front passeger seat.
09:25 RH remains in the vehicle for approx 30 secs. before exiting it and walking to the building.
* Note: He has just left Cooper in a sealed vehicle on the day predicted to be the hottest yet this year.
All day: RH juggles up to 6 electronic sex conversations, including sexting graphic photos.
All day: RH participates in open chat w/3 friends who work at a different HD office.
10:25 After one hour, Cooper has most likely expired from hyperthermia after suffering greatly.
11:30 Lunchtime (11:30 12:30)
* Note: Lunch partners that day were Alex Hall and Winston Milling. They both work at the Corporate Home Depot location, not at the Treehouse building where RH works. They both went to school with RH at UA. The two friends, along with a third friend, Jason Abdug(sp?), are RH's business partners in a side web-development company called Ninth-Hour.
11:?? Two HD employees, AH and WM, pick up RH for lunch in a green car. AH drives.
Lunch They eat at the Publix hot bar, go to UPS store. (This Publix is near the Chik-Fil-A.)
Lunch At RH's request, they then go to Home Depot store for 10 minutes for vanity light bulbs.
12:42 Green car drops off RH at his car in the Treehouse parking lot and drives off.
12:42 RH opens driver's door, tosses bulbs into front seat w/head turned to left, toward front of car.
* Note: The tossing and description of the head turn is from Stoddard's testimony 7/3/14.
12:42 As RH walks away, another person on foot approaches. Once they pass, RH stops, looks back.
12:42 RH watches the other person walk past the death car; RH appears to make a cell phone call.
12:42 RH returns to his office inside the Treehouse building.
After lunch RH is still sexting; also has made arrangements w/friends re movie after work.
01:30 RH receives a group email from Cooper's day care teacher. (Unknown: Did he read it?)
03:16 RH messages LH, When you gonna get my buddy? (alleged by defense @ 7/3/14 hearing)
* This may conflict w/Stoddard @ 7/3/14 hearing, regarding whether texts were received/exchanged.
03:45 RH posts msg to open chat, telling friends he'll be late for the movie.
* This conflicts w/RH's statement to LE that he left work early @4:16 in order to make the movie.
* Note: The movie theater is approximately a 5-10 minute drive from the Treehouse.
04:04 LH calls RH's cell phone; there is phone tag, then a brief apparent conversation (1 min?).
04:16 Outside temp approx 89 degrees. Est. temp in vehicle interior approx 120-140 degrees.
04:16 RH leaves building, enters stifling car, drives away immediately w/o opening any windows.
04:?? RH later claims he noticed Cooper when glancing right to change lanes heading to movie.
04:22 (6 mins. after leaving work) RH speeds into Akers Mill Center entrance, screeching tires.
* Note: Distance from Treehouse to scene is approx 1.8 to 3.2 miles, depending on route.
04:22 RH abruptly stops in the opposite lane of the Akers Mill Center roadway, near Uncle Maddio's.
* Note: Address of Maddio's is 2955 Cobb Pkwy, Ste 290, Atlanta GA.
04:22 RH opens driver-side rear door, removes Cooper from car seat with assistance from a bystander.
* Note: One or more witnesses thought RH claimed Cooper was choking; &/or yelled Call 911!
04:22 RH lay Cooper's body on the hot pavement next to the car.
* Note: Witnesses/LE observe Cooper is discolored, in rigor mortis, eyes half-open, tongue protruding.
04:22 RH may or may not have attempted CPR. The bystander begins CPR efforts.
04:22 RH moves away to other side of car, begins to make phone calls. Does not call 911 himself.
04:22 Witnesses observe erratic, dramatic, inappropriate behavior from RH.
04:22 Witnesses hear RH yell, What have I done? My son/child is dead!
04:23 First LE units arrive on scene. RH is allegedly on his cell phone at this time.
* Note: RH's phone shows calls to LH, Treehouse, Little Apron Academy. One is a 6-minute call.
???? EMT's arrive. CPR is suspended when Cooper is pronounced dead.
04:24 Lt. Farrell(sp?) approaches car, notes strong foul odor of death/decomposition, as do other LE.
* Note: Unit Commander at the Akers Mill scene was Lt. Farrell.(sp?) Witnesses at the Akers Mill scene were interviewed by Det. Raissi & Det. Murphy. Lead detective for the case is Phil Stoddard.
04:?? RH is instructed to get off the phone. He refuses, shouts *advertiser censored** you angrily at officer.
04:?? RH uncooperative. LE takes away RH's phone and detains him in back of LE vehicle.
04:45 LH is allegedly due to pick up Cooper at 4:45.
04:51 LH arrives at day care, learns Cooper not there; is calm. First remark is that RH left CH in car.
05:00 Start time for 22 Jump Street @AMC Pkwy Pointe 15 Theater, where RH's friends are.
*Note: Address for theater: 3101 Cobb Pkwy, Atlanta GA, approx 0.3 mi from scene @Maddio's.
???? LH's repeated calls to RH go to vm; day care employee TJ accompanies her to Treehouse.
???? LE meets LH at Treehouse, tells her Cooper is dead. She says, This was my worst nightmare.
*Note: Detectives who informed LH were Raissi and Stockinger.
05:?? RH's friend who paid for his movie ticket texts him from inside the theater, gets no reply.
05:?? 30 minutes later, friend exits movie to try to reach RH; several calls go to vm.
???? LH notifies her mother by phone that Cooper has died. LE overhears her mother's loud emotional reaction; notes that she asks LH why she is calm and not reacting. LH answers that she doesn't know, and that she must be in shock.
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Subsequently, after RH is in the custody of Cobb County LE:
RH is questioned; admits to having seen videos about leaving dogs in hot cars, seeing a TV documentary about leaving children in hot cars and how to prevent it. RH uses law enforcement lingo with investigators. LE notes that he does not seem to show legitimate emotional distress over the loss of his child.
He does repeatedly stress that this was my biggest fear.
*Note: Similarity to LH's statement, this was my biggest nightmare.
RH tells LE he had been a stickler for always following car seat guidelines to protect Cooper.
* This conflicts with the evidence that RH was using a car seat that day which was too small for Cooper, and that the straps were set in the lowest slots, appropriate for a small infant and not for a toddler.
RH tells LE that he and Cooper exchanged kisses before leaving Chik-Fil-A that day, because he always did this, every single time he buckled Cooper into his car seat. He claims it was because he always feared Cooper would be killed in a car accident, and wanted the child to know that daddy loves him, just in case.
LH declines to see Cooper, asks to see RH. Alone together in an interview room, they are surreptitiously observed by LE. After RH goes through his story with LH, she asks him, Did you tell them too much?
RH lies to LH regarding Cooper's appearance after death. He tells her Cooper looked peaceful, with eyes and mouth closed. He admits to her, I dreaded what he would look like.
The only time RH shows significant emotional distress is when discussing with LH that he will now lose his job, his fears for the future, and the unfairness of what is happening to him.
During the early moments and hours of the investigation, LE become aware of certain facts; warrants are issued; RH's office at HD is searched; Home Depot is cooperating completely. RH's vehicle is impounded as evidence.
LH tells LE that there have been intimacy problems in the marriage (and RH has been unfaithful?). She says that they have financial problems like so many other people these days, and that RH is in charge of the finances, as of recently.
RH tells LE there are no financial problems, and that the $4,000 recently charged to their credit card was for the purpose of racking up airline miles.
* Note: RH likely has significant school-loan debt, as he financed his entire education with loans. There are also two vehicle loans, plus a substantial amount charged to at least one credit card.
RH is arrested at approximately 10:00pm. When LE informs him he is being charged with murder, RH protests, But there was no malicious intent. He is booked and incarcerated.
Sometime shortly after his arrest and incarceration, allegedly within 5 hours, RH is giving someone information and instructions relating to how to cash in two insurance policies which existed on Cooper's life. One is a Home Depot employer-offered policy for $2,000. The other was obtained in November 2012, for $25,000.
Additional search warrants, are used to gather evidence from the Harris's home, Home Depot and the Treehouse, Little Apron Academy, and various computers, phones, and other electronic devices.
JUNE 25, 2014:
The Cobb County Medical Examiner announces the results of Cooper's autopsy. Cause of death is consistent with hyperthermia (extreme overheating). Manner of death is consistent with homicide based on known investigative information.
The CCME's autopsy report also noted (but these details were not disclosed until the 7/3/14 hearing) multiple fresh, unhealed scratch-type injuries to Cooper's face, as well as multiple abrasions on the back of his head; injuries that were presumably self-inflicted while Cooper was suffering, sealed up alone to die in the hot car that day.