14905 posts. Please enter valid email address to continue. My first step was to read and notate the trial transcripts, documents of over eight-thousand pages. Josh is known for his impressive height, standing at 6ft 2ins (1.91m) tall. Trade Count: Hero Member; Posts: 597; Rep: -56; ollies r teh fun; SLAP OG : Been around since SLAP was a mag. As painful as the memories are, what Josh struggles with today is what he can't remember. Earlier that afternoon, Chris called home to get permission to spend the night with his friend Josh. Rosen ended up being the 10 th overall pick and the fourth passer taken behind Baker Mayfield, Sam Darnold, and Josh Allen. Clifford also located a coin collection in a safety deposit box on the upper shelf of a master bedroom closet. Tests on most of the evidence failed to generate a full DNA profile. Because he always says, 'It's you and me, grandma. These stallions are pure polish and really gorgeous animals, she wrote. Evidence used to convict Kevin Cooper is being questioned more than 35 years later. The hand-written letter was on newly printed stationery inscribed Ryen Arabian Ranch that Doug had given her for Christmas. Contrary to its title, the video does not depict homeless men actually fighting, but instead a compilation of street fights caught on tape and homeless men performing in skits and stunts. Joe Marino devoted Wednesday's show to Josh and two big takeaways I had are these: --Amazing correlation between 2014 Cam Newton (his year 4 and just prior to his MVP year) and 2019 Josh Allen. Chino Hills is nestled in the southwest corner of San Bernardino County. Its so much fun having a little one to train since our other youngests are two years old already. An orange towel believed to be from the Ryen home did have a single male DNA profile. He has worked as a reporter, anchor, producer, and host on Newswatch . Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. He sustained that injury on the opposite side of the bed from where his body was found, indicating he was mobile during part of the onslaught. He has managed to keep his personal life under wraps and prefers to stay out of the public sphere. Pope Francis weighed in on the matter as well due to the fact that Kevin Cooper was mere days away from being executed on death row, a fate that was eventually stayed. July 24, 2021 / 9:13 PM Plus, Life Advice. Mainly, this is a simple story of racist scapegoating at its worst. Evidence used to convict Kevin Cooper is being questioned more than 35 years later. Celebrity Net Worth reports that his net worth is $3 million. The speaker begins the poem by stating that he was traveling, along with one or more companions, and they had their clothes ripped, money stolen and got into a fight of some kind. She called out several names but got no response. Several years later, Judge William Fletcher from that same appellate court wrote that he thought "the State of California may be about to execute an innocent man. Overall, I, even as a seasoned anti-death penalty, anti-police activist, was shocked at the level of unfairness, corruption and general incompetence that riddled this case. But unlike a Grisham novel or other true crime books of this ilk, OConnor doesnt just relay the story, he also spends a lot of time critiquing events and pointing out where things went wrong. One problem in researching a crime nearly twenty-five years after it occurred is that a number of key people involved in the investigation and trial have passed away or have retired or have simply forgotten important factual details. Josh Hutcherson was in one of the biggest film franchises of all time. Also suggesting that Doug actively resisted the attack were a number of defensive-type wounds slashed into both of his arms, one of them fracturing the ulna of his right forearm above his wrist. He was just eight years old when he witnessed his parents, his sister, and Christopher Huges meet their deaths in a horrible murder. An unloaded Smith & Wesson pellet gun was on the bottom shelf of that closest. I heard him speak in September of last year at PTP Spark in Arnold, Missouri. His grandmother, Mary Howell doesnt think Cooper did it. Clearly Cooper had some solid grounds for appeals but those too were thwarted at every turn - from the incompetent police lab techs willfully destroying evidence (only to find it again when it served their case) to the appellate judge maliciously denying Cooper all sorts of legal maneuvers for no other reason than spite. The Chino Massacre. Here she talks with Paul Ingels, who was a detective at the time and later a private investigator. One hatchet blow to the right side of her mouth was delivered with so much force that it caused three of her teeth to dislodge from her gums. I rated him as QB1 and the number two overall player (behind Saquon Barkley). Where we are now we should call it Backyard Arabians! Look out a window and see a horse looking back at you but we love it, Peggy wrote. Hughes tried to enter through the glass door, but couldnt budge it. The medic tore Joshs pajama top off and cut his clothes away and washed away some of the blood and fecal matter on him with a white towel another medic removed from the master bedroom bathroom. It is obviously not Cooper's and if not Jessica's, the hair may belong to another killer. The little finger of her left hand was cut to the bone. This bias extends not only to the race of the defendants singled out for death sentences but also to the race of the victim. During the fall of 2008, I was in the San Francisco Bay area on a book tour for The Framing of Mumia Abu-Jamal. In another letter to Lillian, this one written in May of 1974, Peggy brimmed with enthusiasm about her plans to breed and train Arabian horses. Sign the petition and get the latest news on the case by visitingsavekevincooper.org. The blow that amputated the finger was delivered with such force that the finger was propelled into a bedroom closet. "I, Kevin Cooper, was never inside the home that I now know is the Ryen home. Oh well, we can always change that. The three-bedroom, two-bath house featured a sunken living room, a family room, and a Jacuzzi in the patio off the master bedroom. On June 4, 1983, Doug and Peggy Ryen and their daughter Jessica were brutally murdered in their Chino Hills, Calif. home. The incident, known as the Chino Hills Massacre, is anything but simple, but the case grew more complicated in 2017 when Nicholas Kristof, an American journalist, wrote an op ed for the New York Times claiming Kevin Cooper, the Black man sentenced to death for the crime, might have been framed by the San Bernardinos Sheriffs department. Rigor mortis had set in. Untrained! Jessa loves having one her size around., In other news, Peggy mentioned buying a five-year-old Arabian stallion she named Scruffy, and arranging to impregnate one of her mares with the highly regarded stud, Sahara Prince, whose photo was on the back cover of the current Arabian horse magazine. The Ryens family station wagon was found 30 miles away with blood inside of the car in three different places: the front seat, the passenger seat, and the back seat. Comments on: Whatever happened to Josh Ryen, the sole survivor of the Chino Hills Massacre? https://t.co/MB4kE03sC4, After Nicholas Kristofs New York Times op ed, the Chino Hills Massacre received national attention by the likes of celebrities and public figures such as Kim Kardashian and Pope Francis. Peggy said that the property came with a gorgeous barn and huge riding ring but rotten house! "Cooper was there," says Josh. And he saw what was in that house. An ice pick was also used. As he approached the master bedroom he saw the bloodied, incredibly lacerated body of Jessica Ryen, sprawled across the doorway. "Waking up, seeing them in the same room, sticks in my head more than anything else," says Josh, who remembers hiding in a closet until he heard his best friend Chris yell his name. Theft did not appear to be a motive for the killings. Her autopsy reported eight separate stabbing wounds to her right forearm and four to her right hand and wrist. When police recovered the Ryen's station wagon nearly 50 miles away, they found blood on three of the seats. Forty-one-year-old Doug Ryen was found slumped kneeling against his bed, the victim of thirty-seven hatchet and knife wounds. There have been no reports on his whereabouts or life circumstances since then. WATCH: Sole survivor of Chino Hills murders describes what. Her mare was pregnant. } Since 1973, when the U.S. Supreme Court allowed states to resume executions, one-hundred-thirty-six death-row inmates have been exonerated. When Josh looked at him, Hughes asked him what had happened, but Josh could only mumble. The minimum-security area, the only holdover from the Scudder days in terms of appearance, sits in an open, grassy area with dorms, surrounded by a waist-high, chain-linked fence. Kevin Cooper was a serial burglar who had escaped from a nearby prison two days before the murders. "Yes, probably every day," he says. "Someone else was there," says Josh. In 2019, when authorities went to test it again, it was empty. On a counter between the kitchen and the dining room, he saw coins and some bills in plain view next to Peggy Ryens purse. At first, he indicated to police that there had been three assailants. While Los Angeles County is home to the City of Angels, Hollywood, Pasadena, Brentwood, Malibu, Bel Air and Westwood, a majority of Americans could not name any city in San Bernardino County other than the county seat itself. His defense attorney Norman Hile believes authorities planted Cooper's DNA using blood they collected when he was arrested in 1983. A state expert analyzed a single drop of blood from the Ryen home, found in the hallway, away from the gory crime scene. She noticed that the Ryens station wagon was gone and then drove home to ask her husband to go take a look. In 1952 Doubleday published Warden Scudders seminal work on penology, Prisoners Are People. They used the $10,000 proceeds to open their own clinic in Olympia, Washington. This is as it has always been, since the town of San Bernardino was so named on May 20, 1810 by Father Francisco Dumetz, a Franciscan missionary, to honor the feast day of Saint Bernardino of Siena. This prevented any experts from reconstructing or reenacting what happened that night in the Ryens home. Summary ' Whatever Happened? This book is available for purchase through Amazon.com. Now, thanks to the spellbinding new book, Scapegoat, by J. Patrick OConnor, many, many more people will hopefully know his story too. On the night of the crime, Josh Ryen and his best friend, Christopher Hughes were having a sleepover at Joshs house. And with equal frequency, other pictures come to mind - scenes from the night that forever changed his life. His back-to-back roles in Michael Bay's "Pearl Harbor" and Ridley Scott's "Black Hawk Down". In 1983, when he was eight years old, Josh Ryens life changed forever. The hatchet wounds exposed her skull to the bone and caused multiple skull fractures. In June 1983, a semi-rural house in Chino Hills, California, witnessed a gruesome crime. He claimed that all of the evidence was not sent for testing, and hence answers would be hard to find. The secluded area of Chino Hills that Doug and Peggy Ryen and their two-year-old daughter, Jessica, and infant son, Joshua, moved into in 1975 fulfilled a long-held dream for Peggy Ryen, joining a small, close-knit community of Arabian horse breeders who operated adjoining or close-by ranches. At four-feet-nine-inches and eighty pounds, she apparently sustained all those wounds before succumbing to having her forehead and face hacked in and her throat deeply slit. That is, until a cigarette butt suddenly showed up in the cars back seat days later, the same cigarette butt authorities had found in the abandoned house Cooper had been hiding in. The Ryens, thanks to a $5,000 down payment provided by Dr. Howell, bought a home in Santa Ana with a backyard big enough to hold the Arabians. As anyone reading this will already know, the criminal justice system and specifically the application of the death penalty is full of racial bias. Peggy sustained seventeen hatchet wounds to the forehead, face and chest and four separate knife wounds to her chest. It was established at trial that the prison jacket Cooper was wearing was tan, not green. The next morning, Christophers father showed up at the Ryens house looking for his son. At an alumni reunion at Palmer in 1970, Peggy Ann Howell met Franklin Douglas Ryen, an ex-Marine who was in the final year of the schools four-year program and who by now was separated from the woman he had married in 1964. Sep 11, 2019 1. Josh Saviano was born on March 31, 1976. The 43-year-old actor rose to fame as a teen in films including The Faculty and Halloween H2O and went on to star opposite Kate Beckinsale in Michael Bay's critically panned war movie Pearl Harbour.. But Josh, who just turned 29, is finally breaking his silence. Their pickup truck, a 1976 Chevy Silverado with Ryen Arabians Chino California printed on the side, was still in the driveway with the keys in it. Three-and-half years later, Peggy opted to venture out on her own, opening her own clinic in Santa Ana. The tragedy though is not simply that Kevin Cooper could be executed for a crime he didnt commit but also that the Ryen family murders have not be solved and the perpetrators are still at large. Their neighbors referred to their ranches along Old English Road as the Arabian Horse Center of Southern California.. Peggy Ryen was lying on her back naked in the middle of the room and Doug Ryen, also nude, was kneeling over by the edge of the bed. Which had been pushed from it's original date of July 2nd. From the Campaign to End the Death Penalty March 2013. However instead of using this new lead to expand the search away from Cooper, the police destroyed the overalls - what was likely the largest single piece of exculpatory evidence in their possession. Whatever happened to.. JOSH KASPER The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department deputies who responded to the call decided almost immediately that Kevin Cooper was the likely killer because he had admittedly hidden out in the vacant Lease house next door to the crime scene for two days (leaving on June 4th) and because he was a convenient black man in largely white San Bernardino. Catapulted by 4. This then is a book about a gruesome murder case, painfully recounted; all quotes are from either documents or interviews I conducted doing my research. } It doesn't appear to match Kevin Cooper or Lee Furrow. It is the only county in California to border both Arizona and Nevada. Josh, the Ryens' son, lay for hours next to his dead . Justice on Fire is OConnors detailed account of the terrible explosion that led to the firefighters deaths and the terrible injustice that followed. The defense attorney, David Negus, clearly did not know what he was doing and made mistake after mistake both procedurally and argumentatively. Right now we are horse poor, but give us five years of our planned breeding program and well have only the best. Even though Josh suffered injuries and had his throat cut, he miraculously survived. Youtube/Fox. In the Ryens stables were more than a dozen white Arabian show horses, including their champion stallion, Tutal. Jeff had gotten to know Cooper over the years, and had visited him about twenty times. }, First published on October 26, 2000 / 12:11 AM. In 2019, after the case gained newfound attention, authorities went to test the blood again, but the vial was empty. Josh Ryen, the 8-year-old son of Douglas and Peggy, had survived though his throat had been cut. "Whatever Happened to . On Thurday, December 9, 2021 Josh duggar was found guilty on both counts of possessing and receiving child pornography. Elliott suffered a leg injury in a Friday . When he peered through the kitchens sliding glass door, all he saw was red. The biggest of these was his role as Eddie the possum . Each case is different, radically so. Her purse contained over $40 in cash and numerous credit cards. Jim Carrey was ready to quit. Authorities discovered Cooper had been hiding out at a house just 125 yards from the Ryens' home, at top left. He even stabbed them with an ice pick and chopped them with a hatchet. Then he disappeared. An episode of MTV Cribs, featuring a tour of her home, was said to have aided Liverpool and Bradshaw in their plot. Duggar, received fines up to $250,000 for each count alongside his 20 year sentencing. African Americans are 12 percent of the U.S. population, but 42 percent of prisoners on death row. On Saturday, June 4, 1983, the Ryens and eleven-year-old Chris Hughes attended a potluck barbeque dinner with about a hundred other Arabian horse people and their families at the Chino home of George and Valerie Blade. What happened to Jeri Ryan after Star Trek: Voyager? "I say this with all the confidence in the world," he says. Josh, although controversial for leaving so many jobs after short time frames, has proven his skills, and his annual salary is now $2 million. Upon the initial inspection, the police found no suspicious evidence connecting Cooper to the case. First published on January 26, 2019 / 10:09 PM. OConnors strength is his unwillingness to simply let the facts of the mishandling of Coopers case speak for themselves and rather to hammer home the police misconduct, the prosecutorial shenanigans and Coopers own defense attorneys screw ups. At this point the case just gets totally absurd. Finishes: The Missouri Mauler, Bette Clark. He is still appealing his conviction. Doug, who descended from Norwegian ancestry, grew up on the outskirts of Des Moines, Iowa. 48 Hours reported that Josh believes DNA tests are no longer needed and that Kevin needs to serve the sentence he was given. The 1955 movie, Unchained, was based on his book. March 4, 2023. And did he act alone? On the other hand, I was taken by his equanimity and his resolve to prove he was wrongfully convicted of the gruesome Chino Hills murders. Is Kevin Cooper the killer? It is then that things really heat up. Ryen Russillo's net worth. Hughes went around to peer through a sliding glass door into the Ryens master bedroom. Nice guy. Josh Ryen, just eight years old at the time, had had his throat slashed, his skull fractured by an ax, and his ribs fractured, among other injuries. ", "It's just what he took from me," says Josh. Source: getty. With no recent reports on the sole survivor of the murder, his present whereabouts are unknown. When the Ryens neighbors in Santa Ana began to complain persistently about Peggy keeping her horses in her backyard, Dr. Howell bought a four-bedroom house in Chino Hills with six acres so the horses could be kept there. Well have the foal next year. ", "I'll be there with him," adds Mary. The cards were stacked against Cooper before his name was even known. During the attack, and while still alive, she suffered hatchet wounds to both her face and the back of her head and a stab wound to her left breast. On several issues, particularly those regarding his criminal record previous to the Chino Hills trial, I found him protective and less than forthcoming. He soon saw Jessica sprawled in the bedroom doorway and checked her for vital signs. "I am not a murderer. "I couldn't live with myself knowing that there could have been a chance that he didn't do it. Search for jobs related to Whatever happened to josh ryen or hire on the world's largest freelancing marketplace with 21m+ jobs. Hughes ran around to another side of the house and kicked in the kitchen door. Further down the road from the Ryen home, authorities found a blood-stained tan T-shirt and a towel believed to come from the Ryen home. Grab your Affinity Mask and use code "hook" for 20% OFF! There are two things that do link the Mumia Abu-Jamal and Kevin Cooper cases: Each was prosecuted by a district attorneys office hell bent on winning a death-penalty conviction; and neither defendant received a proper defense. On Christmas Eve 2018, California Governor Jerry Brown approved new DNA testing on four pieces of evidence: the tan T-shirt, the hatchet, the sheath, and an orange towel found near the Ryen home that matched ones from inside.