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You know, we locked eyes, but i have nothing to say to him. keith morrison: melissas sat with their father-- their father-- front row seat. prosecutor karen kahgan told the jury a horror story, the states version of what 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. keith morrison: then, graphic evidence. a crime scene soaked in blood and...

Or so he thought. he was banking like getting out when he turned 18. but we also learned that john sutton, being a lawyer, had an order signed by a judge that said when you turn 18, if you havent completed the course, youre going to stay, which infuriated christopher sutton. why did you decide to keep him there when he turned 18? we had concerns that he wasnt ready to return. he had not, quote, "graduated the program." how did he feel about that? he was quite upset. he wanted to come home. he wa...

A lot of people chase the killer, and i think i chased missing my mom. newscaster: police are looking for 25-year-old christopher patrick sutton. keith morrison: 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 hed suppressed. it happened nine years earlier when christopher was just 16. it was the deciding factor in sending him off to samoa. susan was going through christophers roo...

To narrow down their list of suspects, and in the pile of material from the phone company, they came across a name. we isolated, within a three or four hour period of the murder, five or six different names. and one of those came back to garrett cop. who was he talking to? on the 22nd, there was probably, i want to say maybe 13 phone calls, if memory serves me right. there were made between garrett cop and chris suttons cell phones. a lot of calls. a lot of calls. keith morrison: lots of calls, ...

The hospital where her father was in intensive care. 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 bec...

>> christopher made comments that his parents are going to pay for sending him, taking years out of his life. >> reporter: when they took a closer look at christophers 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. >> r...

Keith morrison: but christopher would not break so easily. and paradise cove was no paradise. in fact, there were many reports of physical abuse and restraints used on those who were uncooperative, something christopher learned when he first arrived. we knew that christopher sutton had complainted that he had been hog tied, beaten-- keith morrison: when his family was allowed to visit him about a year later, there did seem to be a distinct change, huge improvement. they found the buff, cleaned u...

7,000 bucks. keith morrison: in fact, the very day of the murder, said christopher, a hopped-up kopp called him again, and again, desperate to buy drugs. christopher told them that between his mothers birthday party and a movie that night, he couldnt do it. why did you tell him that you couldnt get the drugs-- objection, judge. judge: overruled. i told them that i had left it in my room at my parents house. and and thats what gave kopp the idea as to where to go to get the drugs. but that still ...

A year later, and from the beginning made family a very big deal. but even though they were strikingly good looking, and financially successful and happy, they were stymied. no matter how they tried, and oh, how they tried, they could not have children. she was sure that as much as anybody else wanted a baby, she wanted a baby more than anyone in the world. keith morrison: but if wishing couldnt make susan pregnant, said her sister, mary, it could make her a mother by adoption. she got her wish,...

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. 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. keith morrison: so was it payback time, now? yes, says christopher, it must hav...