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>> she sat there and said i dont know anything about it. christopher doesnt tell me. >> reporter: didnt tell her anything? or so she said. awe thought was my reaction. and i didnt buy it. >> reporter: i guess not. because he went on grilling this young woman for more than 12 hours. at the end of which, the detective played to her heart, her relationship with susan and john sutton. >> i said, look, susan really cared about you. she basically thought of you as a daughter. this woman didnt deserve ...

Had the reports read to him and was convinced. >> i think -- that i was some where in between being c completely outraged and upset and some where i knew he had done it. >> reporter: melissa so grief stricken wasnt focused on who did it so much as what she had lost. >> a lot of people chase the killer. i think i chased missing my mom. >> police are looking for 25-year-old christopher patrick sutton. >> reporter: and christopher was nowhere to be found. day after day as police looked for him. joh...

And cry in front of the jury it can cause a mistrial. so, i dealt with it. i did what i had to do. >> reporter: soap he did. 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? now, it was the defenses turn. and christophers old girlfriend one of the prosecution star witnesses against him had a new story to tell. about how she was threatened by police. >> they told me if they didnt hear what they wanted to hear that t...

>> go in the back door, walk in, and shoot him. >> reporter: did it upset him to tell you the story. >> not really. not that i could tell. >> reporter: did he seem relieved he had told someone. >> no. during this time i was talking to him. he was pretty calm talking about it. >> reporter: after the confession, kopp was charged with first degree murder and allowed to see his father. his girlfriend and then his son and then taken off to jail. so, case closed? well you would think given what kopp t...

>> what reason or explanation did he give you? >> he said his parents were -- worth about $500,000 to $1 million. >> reporter: a lot more, actually, house, insurance, law practice, christopher stood to inherit millions. so, was money a motive? or was it the stint apt the boot camp in samoa or both? the detective told the jury he tried to find out when he questioned christopher. i said did you hate your parents that much? and his answer? he said you tell me. he said you just dont know. >> reporte...

Front row seat. prosecutor karen keagan told the jury a horror story. the states version of what happened. >> 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. >> reporter: then graphic evidence. a crime scene soaked in blood and littered with bullet casings. the medical examiner placed knitting needles in a mannequin to show where susan was shot six times. her son took a d...

We are now -- were now at five years, 11 months, i lost susan, i lost christopher long before that. >> reporter: christopher did not look at his father. had he done so he would not have seen tears. the bullets that tore into his head left john sutton unable to cry. i lost my eyesight. >> reporter: how was it in that courtroom. >> it needs to be over. >> raw. personal. heres the judge. >> its ironic for me. i have a son who was born the exact same day as christopher sutton.

But he didnt last at any of them. failed, got kicked out. of course, the whole family tried, said his sister melissa. the trouble wasnt the lack of love. not at all. was there a sense that christopher was loved? >> oh, no doubt about it. >> reporter: but neither love nor money could prevent christopher from always ending back in the same place, trouble. >> i know that he dealt drugs. and at one point he was arrested for it. when i was younger, and, you know that was something that my father bein...

Art manney had a problem they were afraid the man who shot sutton was a frequent visitor at the sutton home. and they at least suspected the suttons own son, now johns care giver was all mixed up in it somehow. >> i was becoming more concerned. >> reporter: was john sutton a sitting duck for another attack one that might finish him off. you must have found it a little worrisome that john sutton was actually living with his son christopher and being cared for by christopher. >> sure. >> reporter:...

He learned the hard way to keep focus in and emotion safely at bay. it was easier that way. survival mode. >> he just focuses on putting one foot in front of the other. i think i do the same thing. and if you were to break down emotionally all the time or -- dwell on what happened you wouldnt get out of bed. >> reporter: the doctors let him go home finally, but since home was not exactly livable, he moved in with christopher at his townhouse. >> my house was a mess because there was a crime scen...