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We are now -- we're now at five years, 11 months, i lost susan, i lost christopher long before that. >> reporter: christopher did not look at his father. had he done so he would not have seen tears. the bullets that tore into his head left john sutton unable to cry. i lost my eyesight. >> reporter: how was it in that courtroom. >> it needs to be over. >> raw. personal. here's the judge. >> it's ironic for me. i have a son who was born the exact same day as christopher

Reason. there was a bigger question that needed to be answered. did his friend christopher know anything? was he even, perhaps, involved? shocking question, of course. this was sutton's son, the son who devoted himself to nursing his father back to health. but something about christopher bothered them, and had ever since he was interviewed the morning after the murder. he said that, i was at the movies. and said, do you want to see the tickets? just had them, right there, like that. basically to me, it was like, red flag there. i want to prove that i'm at the movies. keith morrison: odd? perha...

Her son took a deep breath, recoiled. dreadful. but how would the state prove that christopher was behind it all? man: raise your right hand. she will administer the oath. keith morrison: here's how, for starters. this man once worked with christopher-- was an occasional pot customer, too-- but was shocked, he said, when christopher asked him a certain question. what did the defendant ask you? he asked me if i knew of any hit man that would kill his parents. karen kahgan: what reason or explanation did he give you? he said that his parents were worth about $500,000 to a million dollars. keith ...

Playing video games. whatever. >> 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. >> goi...

Keith morrison: but did that answer the question about guilt or motive? or would she? man: miss driscoll, if you'll come forth, stand in front of our clerk here, please-- keith morrison: when juliette-- once his fiance and the love of his life-- walked by him in the courtroom, christopher's eyes welled up. he hadn't seen her in years. now, her testimony could send him away for life. karen kahgan: what did the defendant tell you about getting his parents killed or taken care of? same thing i'd been hearing for the last six years. karen kahgan: which was that he could find someone to kill them? ...