gone into another world. it was scary. it was instinct that told her something was wrong, said lindsay. so she called 911. 911, state your emergency. a woman was killed. now, hours and hours later, the detectives confronted chris with lindsay s story. why, they asked, didn t her story match his? i m not going to say she s lying, she sounds like a truthful kid, whatever. but i don t know. i can t explain what she s saying she saw. so now that question we posed as we began. did lindsay patterson really know what she saw? yeah, this is bob barnett in chicago. (john foley) i was there when bob barnett made the first commercial wireless phone call. we were both working on that first network
just after 6:30, chris looked in on courtney again. second call. and headed back to the spa. life s last normal moments. 6:37 a.m. i got up out of bed. i was putting on my robe. i heard this panicked, panicked scream from my dad yelling for me. i ran down the hallway to the back porch and i saw him just trying to pull out my mom out of the spa. emergency. it was she who dialled 911 as she and her father struggled to lift her mother out of the spa. it was the first moments of the worst day of our lives. is it possible for people to understand what it s like to be in that situation? i don t think so. to see just both your parents in the worst times that you ve ever seen them. obviously my mom unconscious. and my dad just panicked and for
that s the only thing i can think of. but chris apparently hadn t noticed the nasty three-inch laceration on cristi s head. and here the point of the police interview is revealed. she s got a huge gash on her head, okay? something like that is not consistent with just falling down. not consistent with just falling down? why would the police think that? i mean, you ve been around for a while. i know where you re going. and no. why in fact was this ex-police-chief being questioned at all about the apparently disastrous accident that killed the love of his life? and the answer was right next door. when chris and cristi hall took their outdoor bath that morning in june, someone was watching. her. i got up at 6:00. got my coffee. lindsay patterson was on leave from her i.t. job in the navy, visiting her mom who lives
their mother, their father s wife of close to 30 years, was dead. but neither courtney nor but neither courtney nor chris waited at the house to tell them what happened or to comfort them. nor did they linger over the 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. i can t even start to imagine what you re going through, okay? just, you know, it s a death investigation, and we have to do this. happy to help, he said. whatever would get him back home
we would like to ask his honor for the maximum sentence, wrote billy. the pain that my family has suffered through this tragedy is unforgivable. i didn t want to hurt the girls. i had to say what was on my mind. there was a deep divide in the family said billy. some of the relatives believed chris was innocent but he and he said others including cristi s uncle steve mundy urged on the prosecutor silently. half the family was convinced he was innocent and half was convinced he wasn t. that s hard to do when you have a big family and you all have to be together once in a while. when it involves as member as loved as cristi was. exactly. does that explain why this kind of group of people in the family decided to just let justice take its course? we talked about it quite a bit. you ve got to know when to show up sometimes and when not to show up, just to keep what s left of the family as together as you can have it.