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She interjected. she goes, "i knew it was going to happen. i just didnt know when." keith morrison: that night, they put juliette-- who was living with christopher-- into protective custody. the next day, i prepared an arrest warrant for christopher sutton. keith morrison: and a female officer paid a visit to christophers father, home alone. she says, "well, ive got good news and bad news. and the good news is that we have arrested the assailant. hes admitted it. the bad news is, hes inculpated ...

Were there? >> yeah, he could squeeze your hand but he couldnt speak. >> how did you feel when you saw your father at the ryder trauma center? >> shocked, hurt, worried, scared. >> not that christopher was claiming to be a perfect son. in fact, he told the jury he was a drug dealer. garrett kopp was one of his best customers but had good reason to turn on him. why? because years earlier, christopher said, he turned police informant to get drug charges dropped and who did he finger, garrett kopp?...

Son was born the exact same date as christopher sutton. so at this time, as to count one, mr. sutton, the court poses a sentence of life in prison, without the possibility of parol. >> that was that. barring a successful appeal, christopher sutton will die in prison. a result he found so shocking. he decided he needed to explain that they got it so very wrong. >> the verdict did seem to be a big surprise. >> yeah, i definitely wasnt expecting to be found guilty. i mean, i was shocked. to know yo...

Maintain my innocence. >> show me how it looks like a lion. >> john sutton still remembers the suit he wore when he brought christopher home from the hospital. and now its come to this. >> what about christopher? do you still think of him as your son? >> i guess technically he is, but some day i may go see him and confront him. say, what were you thinking of? what a stupid, criminal, ridiculous crazy thing all this was. >> reconciling if it ever comes is a long, long way. >> that aint happening,...

>> it doesnt make any sense to get on the witness stand and cry in front of the jury. it can cause a mistrial. so i dealt with it. i did what i had to do. >> so he did. but was he right about his son? did the state really have the puzzle solved? or had its key witness been forced to lie? coming up, now it was the defenses turn, and christophers old girlfriend, one of the prosecutions star witnesses against him, had a new story to tell about how she was threatened by police. >> they told knee if ...

Missing my mom. >> police are looking for 25-year-old christopher patrick sutton. >> and christopher was nowhere to be found. day after day as police looked for him john sutton had time to think and remember. one event in particular which perhaps he had suppressed, it happened nine years earlier when christopher was just 16. it was the to siding factor in setting him off to samoa. >> susan was going through christophers room and found a handwritten note planning our murderer. >> what did it say?...

Room. >> who was the room who arranged to have you shoot john and susan sutton? >> christopher. >> how many money were you expected to get in. >> upwards of 100,000. >> up until this moment john sutton had been a spectator, his thoughts and feelings his own. he was a victim, too. staying out of it wasnt an option for him hand now came the moment that he both dreaded and demanded. he testified against his own son, first about the night his world went dark. >> the only thing i saw was for an insta...

>> melissa sat with her father, their father, front row seat. the prosecutor told the jury a horror story, the states version of what have happened the night of the murder. >> the man for whom the gunman had signed on to commit a double murder, a man who was intimately familiar with john and susan sutton, that man, their son. christopher sutton. >> then, graphic evidence. a crime scene soaked in blood and littered with bullet casings. the medical examiner placed knitting needles in a mannequin t...

♪ now you may deliberate. all eyes for the jury, please. >> not an easy task, these people were given. did christopher sutton master mind a plan to kill his own parents. >> we battled for a while. >> who knew those 12 were butting heads in the jury room and split down the middle after seven hours they went home. it was mostly garrett ko p, p they had trouble with. how could they believe a cold-blooded hit man who rats on a friend to save his own skin. >> hes making a deal. >> which would mea...

>> i want to flip this tragedy, this catastrophe into a positive. >> meanwhile in miami it was decision time. alleged shooter garrett kopp had finally agreed to plead guilty and testify against suttons son christopher in exchange for a 30-year sentence and no death penalty. sutton confronted the killer the day he entered a plea. >> during the next days, months, years, 20 years, 30 years, i want you to think about what you planned and what you did that night. you can be as sure that with my blind...