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Miami homicide detectives had problems. they were pretty sure the man who shot john and susan sutton was even now a frequent visitor of the sutton home. >> garrett cobb gets arrested, and they at least suspected the suttons son, johns caregiver, was all mixed up in it somehow. >> i was becoming more concerned. >> 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 -- >> absolutely. >...

Firm. and the very night of the murder a neighbor heard a boat roaring down the canal just behind johns house over here, and it turned out that woman owned such a boat. >> she was interviewed down the line also, and she was not the person responsible. >> what about that phone call susan was on when she was shot to death? detectives found the blood-stained hand set susan dropped when the gunman opened fire? who was she talking to? had that person heard something? detectives got says their answer ...

From the beginning made family a very big deal. 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 couldnt have children. >> she was sure that as much as anybody else wanted a baby, she wanted a baby more than anyone in the world. >> susan. >> but it could make her a mother by adoption. >> she got her wish, and as i said, it was the happiest day of her life when she brought christopher home. ...

Good friend and partner john sutton. but was he off the hook for murder? well, maybe. maybe not. when they checked phone records, it appeared he was still being deceptive. he told them the affair had been recent and brief. thats not what the phone records said. did teddy have some secret reason to kill his lover and her husband? they tested him for gunshot residue. he told them he might test positive. he was an expert marksman, had been shooting earlier that day. >> another twist in the story, b...

First about the night his world went dark. >> the only thing i saw was for an instant a snap. i didnt even see the gun but in an instant, bam, and then the next thing you knew, i woke up and i was on the floor. >> john sutton answered the questions as if the defendant sitting before him was a man he had never met, as if this was not the boy he had raised from birth. neither father nor son displayed the slightest emotion. >> it doesnt make any sense to get on the witness stand and cry in front of...

Murder. >> parents deserve to die for taking years out of his life. she said this went on for years. she interjected. she said, i knew it was going to happen, i just didnt know when. >> that night they put juliet into protective custody. >> the next day i got an arrest warrants. >> a female officer paid a visit to john sutton. >> she said, i have good news and bad news. the good news is weve arrested the assailant and the bad news is she said your son set him up. i go man, oh, man, well, that wa...

A doughy christopher sutton by the time his trial finally began. it was july 2010, a son charged with hiring a hit man who murdered his mother, blinded his father, and here he sat apparently confident, highly prepared ignoring most of the time the surviving members of his family a scant few feet away. >> you know, we locked eyes but i have nothing to say to him. >> melissa sat with her father, their father, front row seat. prosecutor karen kagan told the jury a horror story, the states version o...

>> but then the dream got worse. teddy was a possible murder suspect. >> one of the homicide detectives related to me that there had been a problem with the polygraph. >> because he was actually a suspect. >> i suspect so. anybody that was probably anywhere near me was a suspect. >> but as sutton was absorbing the news of his wifes apparent betrayal, montoto slipped off the list of top suspects. for one thing, he couldnt have been the shooter. he was on the phone with susan when it happened. rec...

Maintain my innocence. >> show me how it looks like a lion. >> john sutton still remembers the suit he wore when he brought christopher home from the hospital. and now its come to this. >> what about christopher? do you still think of him as your son? >> i guess technically he is, but some day i may go see him and confront him. say, what were you thinking of? what a stupid, criminal, ridiculous crazy thing all this was. >> reconciling if it ever comes is a long, long way. >> that aint happening,...

Yet left the movie theater that friday night and here what is the man on the end that have phone, the man who said he did it, garrett kopp, 25 years old, short, scruff i, the self-confessed killer shuffled into the courtroom and told a horrifying tale, how christopher instructed him to tenter the house in a sliding glass door neither pool and how he made a sketch to guide them to john and susans bedroom. >> what did you shoot at first? >> john. >> is that mr. sutton? >> yes. >> where was mr. sut...