body at the hospital. they couldn t. because father and daughter were escorted to several squad cars and driven to the police station to talk about the accident. what was that ride like? quiet. i remember crying the whole time. i couldn t comfort had i father. he couldn t comfort me. we got to the station and they said that my dad would be a few more minutes. chris, so frenzied at the scene, had calmed down by then. he was a cop among cops, after all, and he understood what was necessary to sort out what happened.
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
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 but investigators were getting a good look at christie s body and saw wounds that to them suggested a struggle and more than one nasty blow to the head. so the police had to choose. which version, chris hall s or lindsay patterson s, was more likely the true story of what happened? tom dove is a senior investigator for the riverside d.a. i think they felt this was enough to say this was no
the jury gathered. and minutes later, a signal. they were ready. chris hall and his daughters rushed to court. and in the end it was very quick. guilty of first degree murder. their father would not be coming home. probably ever. he was being cuffed. and potentially put away for life. and yeah. it hurts. and we are angry about that. you can still hear those daughters. i can. thinking you unfairly convicted their father. absolutely. it weighs on me. but at the same time, i know who i am dealing with when it comes to chris hall. in fact, he is the one that s stolen their mother from them. it had been a peculiar fact of this case that the victims and defendants families stood solidly together against the prosecution. what no one knew was the truth was more complicated. offer the verdict at chris hall s sentencing a letter was produced from one of chris hall s brother, billy carlton who until now had said not one public word about the case. we would like to ask his honor for
eventually defend him, although at first they only heard about the case. steve harmon and paul gretch. you ve said two things. special man, special situation. i think both of us can say this is a man that we like and we know. we don t feel he could have done anything like this. chris hall and his daughters prepared for a trial which they hoped would make clear to everybody, the police, the neighbor, the world, that chris would not, could not, did not harm the love of his life. there was never, in 30 years