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I think i said something along the lines of, no, i don't know any reason why he would want to do this. keith morrison: a believe her father shared. i asked him early on when he was able to talk at jackson hospital. could your son have something to do with this? and he says, i don't believe so. keith morrison: so perhaps garrett kopp acted alone after all. but detectives were convinced christopher had to be mixed up in that awful shooting somehow. someone must know. and they were right, someone did. coming up, john sutton survived two bullets to the head. could he survive being home alone with ...

Keith morrison: and given what they had against kopp, detectives gambled that the shooter might roll over on the son. and he'd deny it all? that wasn't my gun at all? wasn't my gun. and i said, "looks like we're going to be here a long time today." narrator: oh, and they were. hours and hours. finally, i said, "i don't believe you did this on your own. so give me a reason as to how chris got you to do this." he basically said, "look, you know, you have to look out for me and my family because i'm afraid of him." chris was going to go kill him? yes, if he didn't do this, chris was going to take...

Scene. a bullet casing under the carpet. >> helpful handy man. by the way, i found another casing. i mean, come on. >> an indication maybe they didn't do it. >> i didn't think so. >> reporter: that's what any good defense attorney is going to point out. >> sure, sure. the casing was underneath something. i don't know how we missed it. we missed it. >> we were a little pissed. >> reporter: detectives remain convinced christopher harbored a lingering anger at his parents for sending hem to the boot camp. they talked to camp alumni. this former resident was there when christopher got the news tha...

Keith morrison: a week after a warrant was taken out for his arrest, police found christopher and brought him to the miami-dade homicide bureau. there, he learned that both his alleged co-conspirator, garrett kopp, and his fiance, juliette driscoll, had somehow implicated him. i showed him certain excerpts out of juliette driscoll's statement saying, "i knew it is going to happen. i just didn't know when." at that point, he immediately began to sob, put his head on the table, and said i'm [bleep]-ed.-ed. keith morrison: but did that mean he was guilty? or merely that he understood the police b...

I mean, he's a like, 20-year-old kid. obviously there was a tie with christopher sutton and him. keith morrison: as for christopher himself, the detectives had no trouble finding people with an opinion about him. the cops should be looking at christopher sutton because of the lengthy family history of problems that john and susan had with their son christopher, who was a handful from a very early age. keith morrison: a very early age, actually, as john sutton recalled all too clearly. did he get into fights at school, or-- i can remember that happening early on in preschool. keith morrison: it...