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and she told a very different story than the one chris was telling. here again is keith morrison. chris and cristi hall s three daughters clung together in grief and shock, all through the dismal evening hours of that worst of all days, june 7, 2007. waiting for their father to return from the police station. and they wondered, why was it taking so long? then the phone rang. and they had their answer. 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
it was a deadlock. the judge declared a mistrial. chris hall walked out of court with his family, free. but not quite in the clear. and nothing at all like a victory for the hall daughters. what was it like to get that hung jury? what did you think then? that was tragic. that was devastating to us. you expected a not guilty verdict? yes. not a doubt. deputy d.a. burke strunsky was disappointed too. he was also determined to retry the case. first he sent his investigator on a mission to explore the life and marriage of chris hall. and what do you know. in idaho, where hall had been a disgraced police chief, the investigator uncovered a startling accusation. chris was a great, great con man. former los angeles police officer jerry winkel is a county commissioner in idaho now. but once upon a time he was chris hall s friend, that is, before a night of poker and
family and a jury. here is keith morrison. 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. so it is, even if we ve seen something or if we think we have. and that s 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
booze when he said hall made a disturbing revelation that he had shot himself in the leg as a cop in order to get retirement benefits. chris had been drinking beer. he came out and told me that he had shot himself. 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 marriage six years prior while chris hall was in custody in idaho. the 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 offered more.