but there was more. d.a. investigator tom dove discovered a secret. not in chris s past but in cristi s. there had been infidelity in the past. cristi s affair was relatively brief, years earlier. but she had been in phone contact with the man just days before she died. had chris found out? impossible to know. but when investigator dove talked to cristi s co-workers at the clinic where she was an x-ray technician, several said they noticed a change in her usually vibrant personality. one co-worker told them more. that she was contemplating a divorce. if true, it might persuade a jury. prosecutor strunsky also needed to explain why lindsay patterson didn t see cristi s body when she looked over the wall the
you know, broken-up words, and he s crying, and we re crying. that was when he said they think i hurt mom. he was very upset. but he didn t sound surprised when he said no, he was crying. he was crying. he was upset. very upset. but by the time police investigators were questioning chris, remember, they had heard from lindsay patterson. and at the station, chris s version of events in the spa differed in one crucial detail from what lindsay described seeing that first time she period over the wall and into the hall s backyard. that specifically, me holding her down in there, there s nothing that took place in that jacuzzi that would explain that. there was no sex. there was no i don t even think we had any contact while we were in the jacuzzi other than when i was getting her out. but investigators were getting a good look at christie s body and saw wounds that to them suggested a
far from old when it happened. just experienced, with life and each other. as far back as i can remember, it s always been chris and cristi. they were never thought of as separate. they were a unit. these are the three daughters. courtney, the eldest, is a teacher. brianna, a personal trainer. and ashton, the youngest, just returned from playing professional volleyball in europe. all of them of course have heard scores of times the story of how their parents met. it was 1978. cristi had gone to see a relative at the air force base in nearby san bernardino. quite by chance, while she was there she encountered a security guard who, to her at least, looked just like elvis. it was blair christopher hall. chris to his friends. apparently she was a little flirty at the gate. [ laughter ] in short order, chris and cristi got married. she was 17. he, 20.
we know the truth. and we know everything that happened. how do we know what we know? it s emotionally unsatisfying not to have that answer. though it is, even if we ve seen something, or if we think we have. and thus the question at the heart of the whole puzzle. is this woman right? i know what i saw. and i know the conclusion of my story. of course she does. of course she does. so why does this other woman think this? she doesn t know for sure what she saw. a question, we say, on which all the rest will turn. why don t we begin here. calimesa, california, riverside county. historic missions. suburbs creeping around the rim of mountains on the eastern flank of los angeles. here is why chris and cristi hall had come to live out their golden years, though they were
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