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Scene. a bullet casing under the carpet. >> helpful handy man. by the way, i found another casing. i mean, come on. >> an indication maybe they didnt do it. >> i didnt think so. >> reporter: thats what any good defense attorney is going to point out. >> sure, sure. the casing was underneath something. i dont know how we missed it. we missed it. >> we were a little pissed. >> reporter: detectives remain convinced christopher harbored a lingering anger at his parents for sending hem to the boot ca...

>> level two is a loud to go on the bathroom on his own. its allowed to have some more privileges. and then -- >> reporter: something in the memories on that island struck a nerve. >> how were you feeling physically during that time? >> i was what they called in denial. >> do you need a break? >> yeah. >> reporter: strange. stoic for the rest of 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 pu...

Christopher told him between his mothers birthday party and a movie he couldnt do it. >> why did you tell him that you couldnt get the drugs? >> overruled. >> i told him i left it in my room at my parents house. >> thats what gave kopp the idea where to go to get the drugs. >> that still doesnt explain why he would in cold blood murder and attempt to murder these two people. >> he went to get the drugs. he found the suttons home. and they could recognize him. he panicked. he was in a drug stupor...

Stood stoned faced as jurors streamed in. were those tears from some members of the jury. >> ladies and gentlemen, i understand you have reached a verdict. >> reporter: judge stanford blake read the verdict. state of florida versus christopher sutton, we the jury in miami-dade, florida, find the defendant christopher patrick sutton, as to count one, guilty of first degree murder as charged in the indictment. >> reporter: guilty. with that christophers head snapped back as if he had been struck. ...

Island in the far off pacific have to do with the shooting of john and susan sutton? coming up -- trouble in paradise. for a young christopher and his family. >> he was kidnapped in the middle of the night and he was 17 years old. >> reporter: when "blind justice" continues. es. aka "th"" oh! theres one. manatees in novelty ts? surprising. whats "come at me bro?" its something you say to a friend. whats not surprising? how much money matt saved by switching to geico. fifteen minutes could save y...

More recent history. they could easily see his improved behavior wasnt exactly lasting. even girlfriend juliettes influence couldnt keep christopher from slipping up. yes he went back to college after he returned from samoa, but soon dropped out. he did form a company. but the company folded. >> he didnt seem to be motivated. >> reporter: yeah. >> we fried to get him to stay in jobs. nothing seemed to be working. >> reporter: what john sutton didnt know was that his son had gone back to the one ...

Her brother, christopher, had already arrived. both of them were reeling from loss of their mother. and now they kept vigil at their gravely wounded fathers bedside. >> we didnt even know if he was going to live for a long time. >> reporter: pretty touch and go wasnt it? >> to say gruesome is, if i didnt know his hands and know little intricate pieces of him you wouldnt have known it was him. >> reporter: you faced the shocking prospect of becoming an orphan. >> i dont think that ever crossed my...

Charges dropped. and who did he finger? garrett kopp. >> what happened if anything with your relationship with garrett kopp after he was arrested? >> i didnt speak to him for a while. or he didnt speak to me i should say for a while. >> was he mad at you? >> yes. >> reporter: so was it pay back time, now, yes, says christopher it must have been. thus his theory of the murder. christopher said he had nothing to do with it. told the jury he never asked kopp to kill his parents. kopp made it all up...

>> reporter: in the months after the murder, phone records showed a spike in the volume of calls between the two. 300 calls in three months. >> the that is an awful lot of drugs to be dealing in three months if you have 300 some phone calls. >> reporter: could they have been talking murder? speculation of course. but -- then after the murder when kopp was arrested on the gun charge the prosecutors discovered it was christopher who put up the money to bond him out. even drove him to court. hardly...

Going to happen. i just didnt know when. >> reporter: that night they put juliet into protective custody. >> the next day i prepared an arrest warrant for christopher sutton. >> reporter: and a female officer paid a visit to christophers father home alone. >> she says, well, i have good news and bad news. and the good news is -- that we have arrested the assailant, he has admitted it. the bad news he has inculpated your son and said your son set him up. i go, man, oh, man. that was a bad night. ...