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Missing my mom. >> police are looking for 25-year-old christopher patrick sutton. >> 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 had suppressed, it happened nine years earlier when christopher was just 16. it was the to siding factor in setting him off to samoa. >> susan was going through christopher's room and found a handwritten note planning our murderer. >> what did it say? >> well, it talked about killing us for insurance sxwls a week after a warrant was taken out for h...

Room. >> who was the room who arranged to have you shoot john and susan sutton? >> christopher. >> how many money were you expected to get in. >> upwards of 100,000. >> up until this moment john sutton had been a spectator, his thoughts and feelings his own. he was a victim, too. staying out of it wasn't an option for him hand now came the moment that he both dreaded and demanded. he testified against his own son, first about the night his world went dark. >> the only thing i saw was for an instant a snap. i didn't even seat gun, but in an instant, bam, and then the next thing you knew i woke ...

>> melissa sat with her father, their father, front row seat. the prosecutor told the jury a horror story, the state's version of what have 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 susan sutton, that man, their son. christopher sutton. >> then, graphic evidence. a crime scene soaked in blood and littered with bullet casings. the medical examiner placed knitting needles in a mannequin to show where susan was shot six times. her son took a deep breath, recoiled, dreadful but how would...

♪ now you may deliberate. all eyes for the jury, please. >> not an easy task, these people were given. did christopher sutton master mind a plan to kill his own parents. >> we battled for a while. >> who knew those 12 were butting heads in the jury room and split down the middle after seven hours they went home. it was mostly garrett ko p, p they had trouble with. how could they believe a cold-blooded hit man who rats on a friend to save his own skin. >> he's making a deal. >> which would mean what? you can't believe what he's going to say because he's an opportunistic. >> next day they tr...

>> i want to flip this tragedy, this catastrophe into a positive. >> meanwhile in miami it was decision time. alleged shooter garrett kopp had finally agreed to plead guilty and testify against sutton's son christopher in exchange for a 30-year sentence and no death penalty. sutton confronted the killer the day he entered a plea. >> during the next days, months, years, 20 years, 30 years, i want you to think about what you planned and what you did that night. you can be as sure that with my blindness every minute of every day that i will not forget you. >> rise, please. >> and with that the mu...