Kevin Cooper (prisoner)

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Kevin Cooper (born Richard Goodman; January 8, 1958) is an American convicted mass murderer sentenced to death, for the murders of three members of the Ryen family and their house guest, in the Chino Hills area of California in 1983. It would become known as the “Chino Hills massacre”. Before the Chino Hills massacre, Kevin Cooper was accused of kidnapping and raping a 17-year-old girl in Pennsylvania after she interrupted him during a burglary. He was never tried or convicted on those allegations because he fled to California after escaping from custody. Kevin Cooper escaped from the California Institution for Men two days before the murders and was believed to have hidden in a vacant house next door to the Ryen residence. Cooper’s DNA was identified on cigarette butts recovered from the vacant house where investigators believed he had been staying. DNA testing identified blood on a T-shirt found along a roadside as Kevin Cooper’s. Prosecutors argued the shirt was connected to the murders...

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