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Want you to think about what you planned and what you did that night, you can be assured that with my blindness, every minute of every day, that i will not forget you. >> all rise, please. >> reporter: with that the murder trial of christopher sutton could begin. now, florida law again, now prosecutors could use the sworn testimony in court of both of the girlfriend and the hit man. but even with that, the case was as prosecutor kathleen hogue knew all too well, rather weak. >> this was a circumstantial case, extremely circumstantial. really based on motive. >> reporter: john sutton wanted the...

Five or six different names. and one of those came back to garrett cop. who was he talking to? on the 22nd, there was probably, i want to say maybe 13 phone calls, if memory serves me right. there were made between garrett cop and chris sutton's cell phones. a lot of calls. a lot of calls. keith morrison: lots of calls, on the day of the murder. quite probably meant nothing at all, of course. still, garrett kopp was 20, a frequent visitor around the house. he didn't seem to have a job or any direction in life, but christopher saw some good in him, apparently, hired him occasionally to do odd j...

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, wasn't 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 him, john sutton had time to think and remember, one event in particular, which perhaps he'd suppr...

One, to seek justice no matter what that might mean for his son. and the other-- perhaps even more impossible-- to simply see again. coming up. garrett kopp's confession should be enough to put him behind bars. but did prosecutors have enough to convict christopher sutton? this was a circumstantial case, extremely circumstantial. really based on motive. keith morrison: when dateline continues. [dramatic music] for mild-to-moderate eczema? it can be used almost everywhere on almost everybody. the arm of an arm wrestler? the back of a quarterback? the face of a fairy? prescription eucrisa is a n...

Nobody knows what really happened except for him and garrett. thank you. that's what i've been saying. keith morrison: so why not just play a tape of the interrogation? well, they couldn't. the police didn't record a word of their long talk with juliette driscoll. she said, certainly he said those things, but whether he did it or not is up in the air, as far as i'm concerned. right. and i think that gives a rise to a major reasonable doubt in this case. keith morrison: but remember, garrett kopp, the confessed shooter, testified that he was merely christopher's puppet on a string when he kille...