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Read to him, and was convinced. i think that i was somewhere in between being completely outraged and upset and somewhere where i knew that he had done it. keith morrison: but melissa, so grief-stricken, wasnt focused on who did it so much as what she had lost. 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...

Son was born the exact same date as christopher sutton. so at this time, as to count one, mr. sutton, the court poses a sentence of life in prison, without the possibility of parol. >> that was that. barring a successful appeal, christopher sutton will die in prison. a result he found so shocking. he decided he needed to explain that they got it so very wrong. >> the verdict did seem to be a big surprise. >> yeah, i definitely wasnt expecting to be found guilty. i mean, i was shocked. to know yo...

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...

The case was, as prosecutor kathleen hogue knew all too well rather weak. >> this was a shirk shall says, extremely circumstantial based on motive. >> john sutton wanted the law to convict his son. murder but was christopher actually guilty? coming up, in court. a killer returns to the scene of the crime. >> what did you do at the end of the hallway in. >> shoot. >> who did you shoot at first? >> john. >> and what did you see mr. sutton do when you shot him? >> flip over a bit. >> what "dateline...

Missing my mom. >> police are looking for 25-year-old christopher patrick sutton. >> 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 he had suppressed, it happened nine years earlier when christopher was just 16. it was the to siding factor in setting him off to samoa. >> susan was going through christophers room and found a handwritten note planning our murderer. >> what did it say?...

>> i want to flip this tragedy, this catastrophe into a positive. >> meanwhile in miami it was decision time. alleged shooter garrett kopp had finally agreed to plead guilty and testify against suttons son christopher in exchange for a 30-year sentence and no death penalty. sutton confronted the killer the day he entered a plea. >> during the next days, months, years, 20 years, 30 years, i want you to think about what you planned and what you did that night. you can be as sure that with my blind...

To think what that would be like. >> yeah. >> its heavy. >> memorizing thing an going into court. he is a pretty determined guy. >> yeah, hes great. >> but adapting, even successful adapting, using a talking typewriter, for example, wasnt enough for john sutton because he waited for his sons long-delayed trial. he pursued with something like an obsession a quest to regain his eyesight. >> most people might have given up by then. cant do anything. >> not even close. >> not you. >> i wont take no ...

Problem to solve it. >> so sutton told the doctors he would somehow help make it happen. he wrote checks, he joined the board of directors. >> john sutton. >> he offered himself as a voice of hope for desperate patients. even though it may never help him, as long as he lives, hes okay with that? >> theres a chance that we may not be able to restore his vision. there is a chance, on the other hand, that we may, but if he doesnt get behind it he does know that were not going to move it as fast as ...

>> police are looking for 25-year-old christopher patrick sutton. >> and christopher was nowhere to be found. day after day as police looked for him, john sutton had time to think, and remember. and one event in particular which perhaps he had suppressed, nine years earlier when christopher was 16, it was the deciding factor in sending him off to samoa. >> susan was going through christophers room and found a handwritten note planning our murder. >> what did it say? >> well, it talked about kill...

while in hiding. supporters of the 9/11 mastermind held protests and rallies across pakistan on friday. pakistans largest islamist party called for the demonstrations. some burned flags and chanted pro-bin laden and anti-american slogans. one said, the assassination of one osama will produce many osamas in the future. some in the country say the u.s. raid on bin ladens compound is a violation of pakistani sovereignty. and the terrorist organization that bin laden founded has finally co...