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About what i did years before or maybe after or, you know, even jowl yet said that. the only thing that could know this were christopher and garrett. >> this idea he would break in for drugs. >> i had stuff in my bedroom still that i was moving out and in of that room. garrett kopp helped me move some of that stuff. >> do you need some water? >> no, im okay. >> the jury told us christophers tears on his witness stand made some of them believe his incarceration on the island was a motive for murd...

Happen and i dont know when. at that point he immediately began to sob, put his head on the table and said im [ bleep ]. >> but did that mean he was guilty? or merely that he understood the police believed he was guilty? >> he made comments like theres no magical way i can tell you where to go to find the truth. >> christopher sutton and garrett kopp were charged with first-degree murder, a possible death penalty case. both pleaded not guilty, and john sutton got busy. he had a mission, two, in ...

You? >> he asked me if i knew of any hitman that would kill his plarnts. >> what reason or explanation did he give you? >> he said his parents were worth about $500,000 to a million. >> worth a lot more actually. with the house and insurance, law practice, christopher stood to inherit millions, so was money a motive or was it the stint of the boot camp in samoa or both? the detectives told the jury he tried to find out when he questioned christopher. i said did you hate your parents that much? >...

Murder conspiracy and what does she do? she tells them what they want to know. >> please have a seat over here. >> in fact. defense attorney got juliet to admit the state wouldnt even have had that if detectives hadnt intimidated and threatened her. >> they told me that if they didnt hear that they wanted to hear that they would arrest me instead. they threw my purse across the room. they slammed their hands on the desks. >> did they tell you it was going to be for first-degree murder? >> they t...

Doubt in this case. >> remember, garrett kopp, the confessed shooter, testified that he was merely christophers puppet on a string when he killed susan and tried to kill john. how do you get a jury to doubt a statement like that? >> we now had to go after him with hammer and tongues. >> oh, and he did. fleisher went after garrett and the cops. >> every time you denied being involved in this, they got aggressive with you, didnt? >> somewhat. they just like got pushy a little bit. >> got pushy a l...

Have to go in and attempt to assassinate boast those people, none? what motive did christopher sutton have to want both his parents dead? plenty. >> and whats the story here? they had the statement of garrett kopp, the drug-crazed little thug who gives this story to save himself from the death penalty and the coerced statement of juliet driscoll. where oats evidence in this case? what do they have? nothing. >> seven men, five women on the jury and real doubt in there. >> when he first started sa...

Murder. he was allowed to see his father, his son, his girlfriend and then taken off to jail. >> so case closeded? >> well, you would think given what kopp toll the detectives in them, but it did not give them what they needed to arrest christopher. theres a feature in florida law which says that things people said in a confession about somebody else could be labeled hear say. they needed more. so they turned to the person closest to christopher, his fiancee, julia driscoll. the two wren gaged t...

That its believed stephen paddock acted alone hand no one else was in the hotel room with him. police officers say they are following more than a thousand leads but have yet to come up with a et move. more news in one hour. keith morrison: summertime in miami. pounding heat, unavoidable sun. >> summertime in miami, pounding heat, unavoidable sun. unavoidable except, of course, inside. >> all rise, please. >> and six years inside his cell in the county jail have produced a doughy christopher sutt...

Denial. do you know a break? >> yeah. >> strange? stoic for the rest his testimony, yet in the process of trying to dismiss samoa as a murder motive, he cried about his experience there, so revealing? attorney fleisher put the best spin on it he could. >> i think that showed his honest f-as a witness. >> i cried when i got off the plane. >> when court resumed christopher told the jury that while he was initially upset about being sent to samoa, got over and made the best about it and when his pa...

Parents. kopp made it all up. the police had it all wrong, what really happened, he shade, was that kopp stormed into the house that night to steal christophers hidden stash, boxes full of drugs. >> how much marijuana did you store in these boxes? >> in the top box, about two pounds. >> what was the value of that? >> 7,000 bucks. >> in fact, the very day of the murder says christopher a hopped-up cop called him again and again desperate to buy the drugs. between his mothers birthday party and th...