January 1983: Kevin Cooper, using the alias David Anthony Trautman, is arrested on burglary in Los Angeles
April 29, 1983: Cooper is sent to the California Institution for Men in Chino after being convicted of burglary.
June 2, 1983: Cooper escapes from CIM and hides in a vacant Chino Hills' rental house co-owned by Larry Lease and Roger and Vicki Lang and located 150 yards from the home of Douglas and Peggy Ryen.
