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Had an order signed by a judge that said when you turn 18, if you haven't completed the course, you're going to stay, which infuriated christopher sutton. why did you decide to keep him there when he turned 18? we had concerns that he wasn't ready to return. he had not, quote, "graduated the program." how did he feel about that? he was quite upset. he wanted to come home. he wanted things his way. he always wanted things his way. keith morrison: but this time, finally, tough love seemed to work. christopher was 19 and a changed man when he returned from his protracted stay in samoa. we met him...

I didn't even see the gun. but in an instant, bam, and then 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. --for an instant. it doesn't make any sense to get on the witness stand and cry in front of the jury. it can cause a mistrial. so i dealt with it. i did what i had to do. keith morrison: so he did it. but was he right about his son? did the state really have the puzzle solv...

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. keith morrison: so was it payback time, now? yes, says christopher, it must have been. and that's 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 that night to s...

A son charged with hiring the 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. keith morrison: melissa's sat with their father-- their father-- front row seat. prosecutor karen kahgan told the jury a horror story, the state's version of what happened the night of the murder. the man for whom the gunman had signed on to commit a double murder. a man who was intimately familiar with john and ...

Sutton. when i heard his date during the trial, i remembered the joy of bringing my son home just like mr. sutton had. so at this time, as to count one, mr. sutton, the court poses a sentence of life in prison, without the possibility of parole. >> reporter: 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. >> reporter: the verdict did seem to be a big surprise. >> yeah, i definitely wasn't expecting to be found guilty. i was shocked, you know, to know you didn't do so...