Minute-by-minute: Day 12 of the Ross Harris hot car death trial

GLYNN COUNTY, Ga. — It’s been more than two years since 22-month-old Cooper Harris died in the back seat of a hot SUV outside a Cobb County office building.

His father, Ross Harris, is now on trial for his death.

Follow minute-by-minute coverage of the case below:

4:29 p.m. Court adjourns for the day. Will resume Tuesday morning at 8:30 a.m.

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4:19 p.m. Prosecutor and Stoddard continue to read chats between Harris and other women in which Harris talks about his unhappiness with his marriage. In multiple conversations, Harris says he wishes he was single.

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4:11 p.m. Harris tells woman in chat that he won't get divorced because of his kid. "It's the glue holding it together."

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4:05 p.m. Stoddard reads conversation of Harris sexting with a high schooler. They talk about meeting up and Harris tells her he will pay. She tells him she's 17 and he says it's ok, "you're legal."

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4:00 p.m. Detective reads a conversation Harris had on Whisper in January 2014. The girl he's chatting with claims to be 14 years old. Detective says Harris continues to sext with her despite that.

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3:50 p.m. Prosecutors show call logs and chat history from Harris' phones. Stoddard goes through a day in May where Harris was texting his wife that he was coming home soon while he was calling and meeting with an escort.

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3:30 p.m. Stoddard reads conversations between Harris and his wife in the months leading up to Cooper's death. In one conversation about Memorial Day, Harris talks about wanting a vacation without Cooper. The other conversations revolve around Cooper, his car seat and dropping him at day care among other things.

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3:18 p.m. Stoddard says Harris had received several emails warning him about hot car deaths in the year and a half before Cooper's death.

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3:17 p.m. Stoddard says Harris watched the video about hot cars five days before Cooper's death.

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2:33 p.m. Prosecutors play video made by a veterinarian about dogs in hot cars. During his interview, Harris told detectives he had recently the watched the video titled, "How hot does it get inside a parked car?"

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2:30 p.m. Stoddard says during his interview, Harris told them he had recently seen a video about hot cars that was made by veterinarian. Through internet records, they found that Harris had come across the video on the site Reddit.

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2:28 p.m. Stoddard says the family went on a vacation over Memorial Day. Chat records show that Leanna wanted Cooper to go on the vacation but Harris did not. He says Cooper did end up going on the vacation.

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2:24 p.m. Prosecutors and Stoddard go through emails between Harris and a travel agent about a cruise he was planning for his family.

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2:08 p.m. Prosecutor questions Stoddard about Harris' visit to the child free section of Reddit. He says a friend sent Harris the website, to which Harris responded by saying, "Grossness."

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2:05 p.m. Stoddard says two weeks before Cooper's death, Harris commented on a Reddit article about a fight involving bikers, saying, "The only reason I hold true to the bikers actions is because the number of witnesses that stuck around to corroborate their story to police." Prosecution says it speaks to Harris' knowledge of the importance of witnesses.

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1:57 p.m. Stoddard reads information from the article "Prison life: 5 things men should know." He says Harris clicked on this article after his search about what prison is really like.

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1:47 p.m. Stoddard said a detective found a Google search on Harris' Macbook for "What prison is really like." He says through that search, Harris clicked on an AskMen article about prison life and what it takes to survive.

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1:36 p.m. Stoddard said the day after Cooper's death, he reached out to Leanna Harris and her family but was told they would not talk to him and he could reach out to their attorney.

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1:32 p.m. Stoddard says Harris made a nearly six minute phone call to Toddler Room 5 at Little Apron Academy just minutes after pulling Cooper from his car. The teacher inside the room says she did not answer the phone. To this day, detectives have been unable to find out who Harris spoke to on that call.

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1:28 p.m. Phone records show Harris tried to call his wife at 4:24 p.m. that day, but hung up. She called him back at 4:25 p.m. and it went to voicemail. Harris called the Home Depot direct number twice. One conversation lasted more than five minutes.

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1:20 p.m. Court resumes from lunch break. Stoddard returns to the stand and begins to testify about phone records.

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12:01 p.m. Court breaks for lunch.

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11:56 a.m. Prosecution plays enhanced videos of Harris in the Home Depot Treehouse Office parking lot throughout the day of June 18, 2014.

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11:42 a.m. Stoddard said in the initial interview, Harris never mentioned that he went to Home Depot over lunch and then returned to his car to put a bag inside.

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11:30 a.m. Video from the parking lot on June 18, 2014, shows after parking Harris spent around 30 seconds inside his car before going into work.

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11:13 a.m. Stoddard said Cooper was about three inches too big for the rear-facing car seat he was riding in on the day of his death.

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11:05 a.m. Stoddard says during interviews, Harris told them that Cooper said "school" just before leaving Chick-fil-A.

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11:03 a.m. Prosecution plays video of Harris and Cooper entering day care the day before his death. In the video Cooper is awake.

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10:59 a.m. Prosecutor questions Stoddard about records pulled from Little Apron Academy. They show that Harris dropped Cooper off at day care majority of the time.

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10:52 a.m. Prosecutors say on the way to and from lunch that day, Harris would have passed the Chick-fil-A where he and Cooper had breakfast that morning.

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10:40 a.m. Court resumes from break. Prosecutors play videos Stoddard took of Harris' drive to work the morning of Cooper's death.

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10:10 a.m. Court recesses for morning break.

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9:57 a.m. Prosecutors play video Stoddard took of the drive Harris made the morning of Cooper's death. He says they rented a Hyundai Tucson, the same car Harris drove, to get a more exact estimate of time.

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9:48 a.m. Stoddard says they did the drive multiple times that morning and it averaged under three minutes each time.

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9:45 a.m. Stoddard says a week after Cooper's death, he drove the same route Harris would have taken from Chick-fil-A to his office to see how long it took. He says Harris only had 30-40 seconds after leaving Chick-fil-A before he would make the turn to take his son to day care.

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9:42 a.m. Video shows Harris pulling into the Home Depot Treehouse Office parking lot at 9:24:42, just four minutes after leaving Chick-fil-A. Phone records show Harris sent another message in the conversation about his son on Whisper at 9:24:28, about the time he would have been pulling into the parking lot at work.

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9:33 a.m. Stoddard says Harris sent the Whisper message "I love my son and all but we both need escapes," at 9:15:33 while he was sitting at Chick-fil-A with his son.

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9:30 a.m. Prosecutors go through several of Harris' receipts from Chick-fil-A in the month of June 2014. Receipts and video from the day of of Cooper's death shows Harris exited Chick-fil-A at 9:20:33.

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9:21 a.m. Stoddard says after the interrogation, he went to see Harris' car. He says there was a strong "odor of death" inside.

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9:15 a.m. Prosecution plays another video of an interview with Harris in the interrogation room. Harris argues with Stoddard about the charges he's facing. "Your actions caused his death," Stoddard says. "How is that against the law?" Harris asks.

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9:08 a.m. Stoddard says while in the interview room, Harris crumpled up and threw away a Publix receipt from lunch the day of Cooper's death. After the interview, detectives pulled it out and entered it into evidence. The receipt says Harris purchased his lunch at 11:54 a.m.

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9:00 a.m. Trial resumes. Lead detective Phil Stoddard returns to the witness stand.

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