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Been shooting earlier that day. another twist in the story. but what did it mean in terms of the likelihood he was involved in the incident? >> again early in the investigation. a lot of investigating to do. >> reporter: and mostly, they waited with everyone else, to see if john sutton would survive the attack, to see if they would ever be able to ask him, what happened. and until now all they heard from sutton was this. >> are you bleeding? do you see any blood? >> i am bleeding all over, yes. ...

>> reporter: miami homicide detectives larry bellevue and 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...

Pool. how he made a sketch of the house to guide garrett down a hallway that john to john and susans bed rooms. >> what did you do at the end of the hallway? >> proceed to shoot. >> who did you shoot at first? >> john. >> mr. sutton? >> yes. >> where was mr. sutton when you shot at him initially? >> on the bed. >> and what did you see mr. sutton do when you shot him? >> flip off the bed. >> after you fired at mr. sutton, what did you do? >> proceeded to shoot in the other room. >> and who was th...

So, now the complexion of the investigation changed. >> trying to think why would garrett kopp do this? i mean he is like 20-year-old kid. obviously there is a tie with christopher sutton and him. >> reporter: as for christopher himself, the detectives had no trouble finding people with an opinion about him. >> the cops should be looking at christopher sutton. because of the lengthy family history of problems that john and susan had had with their son christopher who was a handful from a very ea...

Upscale enclave south of miami. his law practice, susan worked as office manager was booming. just that week he received a check for $1 million for a case he had settled. so, was robbery the motive? and if so, how did the killer get into the house? officers saw a curtain blowing in the wind, through a sliding glass door near the rear of the house, near the pool, the door latch showed it had been broken long before the night. >> the killer had gone in through the sliding glass door, had walked al...

And three months after the august shootings when john decided he was ready to go home to the house in which the shooting happened, christopher went with him. eyes for his blind father. >> and at that point he was more involved in driving me around or some care giving. >> reporter: but now it was almost christmas. still no arrests. the detectives were certainly following up leads trying to find anyone with a motive to kill the suttons. oh, understand the digging they were doing was mostly in moun...

>> when i got the phone call and said there was a murder/suicide down in coral gables. we heard that the husband was en route to the trauma center. and in critical condition. >> reporter: en route with two bullet wounds to his head. had sutton killed his wife and turned the gun on himself. no, that theory was quickly dismissed when the paramedic put out a report. >> he cant provide any info. >> he had wounds to his hands which would make it clear like it was defense type wounds that somebody els...

He said that i was at the movies. he said do you want to see the tickets. >> reporter: just had them right there like that? >> basically to me, red flag there. i want to prove im at the movies. >> reporter: or, perhaps, might mean nothing at all. the gun implicated kopp, of course, but christopher, no real evidence to show he knew a thing. >> there were still a lot of the pieces of the puzzles we are putting together. >> we cant prove it yet. >> reporter: like for exam pull, this big tantalizing...

>> thank you. >> thats what i have been saying. >> reporter: so, why not just play a tape of the interrogation. well, they couldnt. the police didnt record a word of their long talk with juliet driscoll. >> reporter: she said he said no e those things but whether he did it or not is up in the air. >> i think that gives rise to a major reasonable doubt in this case. >> reporter: remember garrett kopp, confessed shooter, testified he was christophers puppet on a string when he killed susan and tri...

There were vandalism of other peoples property. >> reporter: they sent him off to boarding schools then. 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 o...