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In June 1983, Doug and Peggy Ryan, their 10-year-old daughter and 11-year-old house guests, were

brutally murdered in Chino Hills, California.

Two days before, Kevin Cooper had escaped from a nearby prison and hid in a vacant house

125 yards below the murdered family's hilltop house.

After the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department established that he had hid there, it focused

on him as the lone assailant, despite numerous eyewitness reports that implicated three white

men as the perpetrators.

Kevin Cooper was convicted of the murders in 1985 and has been on death row at San Quentin

since then.

Scapegoat shows how the sheriff's office and district attorney's office, San Bernardino County,

framed him for the horrific murders and how the justice system has failed him at almost

every turn in his long drawn out of the old process.

As O'Connor's shocking but thorough investigation shows, the sheriff's department discarded information

that pointed at other perpetrators, destroyed evidence that ex-sculptated, ex-sculptated,

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