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Of break-in was my first instinct. thats what i thought for a long time until we started talking about my dads clients. >> homicide detectives larry and art were also thinking about suttons clients, those he sued on their behalf. at this point john sutton couldnt provide any information. he was clinging to life in a drug-induced coma. stlie went several times to talk to john sutton. he was on pain medication. he was intube ated. were looking at maybe an incident in his law firm where he had peop...

Christopher. >> i said did you hate your parents that much? >> his answer? >> he said, you tell me. you just dont know. >> but did that answer guilt or motive or would she? >> miss driscoll, if youll come forward, stand in front of our clerk here. >> when juliet, once his fiance walked by him in the courtroom, christophers eyes weld up. he hadnt seen her in years. now her testimony could send him away for life. >> what did the defendant tell you about getting his parents killed or taken care of?...

>> they hung around a lot doing drugs, playing video games, whatever. >> in the months after the record phone records showed a spike in the call between the two, 300 calls between 3 months. >> thats an awful lot of drugs to be dealing if you had 300 some odd phone calls. >> could they have been talking murder? speculation, of course, but then after the murder when cobb was arrested on the gun charge, prosecutors understood it was christopher who bonded him out, drove him to court, hardly the sor...

Was that he was a little bit rebellious as most teenagers are at that age. >> i think i said something along the lines of, no, i dont know any reason why he would want to do that. >> a belief her father shared. >> i asked him early on when he was able to talk at jackson hospital, could your son have something to do with this? he said, i dont believe so. >> so perhaps gard cobb acted alone after all, but detectives were convinced christopher had to be mixed up in that awful shooting somehow. some...

>> christopher made comments that christopher was going to pay for taking years out of his life. >> when they took a more recent look at his history, they could see that his improved behavior wasnt lasting. even girlfriends juliets influence couldnt keep him from slipping up. yes, he went back to college but soon dropped out and he did form a company but the company folded. >> and he didnt seem to be motivated. we tried to get him to stay in jobs. nothing seemed to be working. >> what john sutto...

John sutton had survived gunshot wounds to his head, the death of his wife and his own sons arrest for murder. and to top it off, he was blind, apparently permanently. >> it still is unbelievable. i mean, its like a big, bad dream. >> a nightmare from which there was no awakening. but john, if you hadnt noticed by now, is a determined man. he had been a champion swimmer in college. now he swam again. he had been a skier, now he learned to ski blind. he fell in love again. her name is kathy henry...

Client, a blind father, a survivor of the alleged plot to kill his parents. >> the fact that john sutton survived and was blind to me was the greatest prejudice in the case. >> and there he was right behind the bar the whole time. >> the jury would hear something bad and theyd look over at john sutton. they had to be thinking, this poor man. look what he has to go through life with. >> for the victim, fleischer knew, he must display only sympathy. so instead he attacked the murder investigation ...

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 turned 18 if you havent completed the course you had to stay which infuriated christopher. >> 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 wanted things his way. >> this time finally tough...

Investigation while taking shots at the media who supported trump outside detroit. kim jong un says he will begin the closing of nuclear test sites by mid-may. in a meeting with south korea president moon he also expressed a desire not to repeat the painful history of the korean war. now back to "dateline." the fact that john sutton was alive at all after that mystery invader killed his wife and shot him in the face was a medical marvel, frankly. the rest of the news was not so good. when ...

They talked often and frequently late at night. >> he was my moms best friend. i called him my godfather pretty much. like a relative. >> but police were suspicious. why had montoto arrived so quickly after the shooting? why was he armed with a handgun? they had a few questions and perhaps more important, some testing to do. >> we interviewed him extensively. we did take gunshot residue from his hands. >> he was given a polygraph, wasnt he? >> yes, he was. >> how did he do? >> he passed on certa...