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More recent history. they could easily see his improved behavior wasn't exactly lasting. even girlfriend juliette's influence couldn't 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 didn't seem to be motivated. >> reporter: yeah. >> we fried to get him to stay in jobs. nothing seemed to be working. >> reporter: what john sutton didn't know was that his son had gone back to the one job he seemed to be good at -- selling drugs. nor did he know that christopher's friend, garret...

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 father's bedside. >> we didn't even know if he was going to live for a long time. >> reporter: pretty touch and go wasn't it? >> to say gruesome is, if i didn't know his hands and know little intricate pieces of him you wouldn't have known it was him. >> reporter: you faced the shocking prospect of becoming an orphan. >> i don't think that ever crossed my mind. he was still alive. >> reporter: melissa wondered -- why her parents? who could have do...

Charges dropped. and who did he finger? garrett kopp. >> what happened if anything with your relationship with garrett kopp after he was arrested? >> i didn't speak to him for a while. or he didn't speak to me i should say for a while. >> was he mad at you? >> yes. >> reporter: so was it pay back time, now, yes, says christopher it must have been. thus his theory of the murder. christopher said he had nothing to do with it. told the jury he never asked kopp to kill his parents. kopp made it all up. the police had it all wrong. what really happened he said, was that kopp stormed into the house ...

>> reporter: in the months after the murder, phone records showed a spike in the volume of calls between the two. 300 calls in three months. >> the that is an awful lot of drugs to be dealing in three months if you have 300 some phone calls. >> reporter: could they have been talking murder? speculation of course. but -- then after the murder when kopp was arrested on the gun charge the prosecutors discovered it was christopher who put up the money to bond him out. even drove him to court. hardly the sort of thing a drug dealer would do for a mere customer. >> going to court with him. bonding h...

Going to happen. i just didn't know when. >> reporter: that night they put juliet into protective custody. >> the next day i prepared an arrest warrant for christopher sutton. >> reporter: and a female officer paid a visit to christopher's father home alone. >> she says, well, i have good news and bad news. and the good news is -- that we have arrested the assailant, he has admitted it. the bad news he has inculpated your son and said your son set him up. i go, man, oh, man. that was a bad night. a real bad night. >> reporter: what was it lock to hear that? was it a shock or did you have some ...