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Have to go in and attempt to assassinate boast those people, none? what motive did christopher sutton have to want both his parents dead? plenty. >> and what's the story here? they had the statement of garrett kopp, the drug-crazed little thug who gives this story to save himself from the death penalty and the coerced statement of juliet driscoll. where oats evidence in this case? what do they have? nothing. >> seven men, five women on the jury and real doubt in there. >> when he first started saying his testimony, he put doubt in my mind. >> coming up, the jury speaks. >> we the jury. >> and ...

Murder. he was allowed to see his father, his son, his girlfriend and then taken off to jail. >> so case closeded? >> well, you would think given what kopp toll the detectives in them, but it did not give them what they needed to arrest christopher. there's a feature in florida law which says that things people said in a confession about somebody else could be labeled hear say. they needed more. so they turned to the person closest to christopher, his fiancee, julia driscoll. the two wren gaged to be married in a few weeks. dress bourkts invitations in the mail. >> she said i don't know anythi...

That it's believed stephen paddock acted alone hand no one else was in the hotel room with him. police officers say they are following more than a thousand leads but have yet to come up with a et move. more news in one hour. keith morrison: summertime in miami. pounding heat, unavoidable sun. >> summertime in miami, pounding heat, unavoidable sun. unavoidable except, of course, inside. >> all rise, please. >> and six years inside his cell in the county jail have produced a doughy christopher sutton by the time his trial finally began. it was 2010, a son charged with hiring the hitman who murde...

Denial. do you know a break? >> yeah. >> strange? stoic for the rest his testimony, yet in the process of trying to dismiss samoa as a murder motive, he cried about his experience there, so revealing? attorney fleisher put the best spin on it he could. >> i think that showed his honest f-as a witness. >> i cried when i got off the plane. >> when court resumed christopher told the jury that while he was initially upset about being sent to samoa, got over and made the best about it and when his parents and melissa came to visit they all had a wonderful time together. hardly a dysfunctional famil...

Parents. kopp made it all up. the police had it all wrong, what really happened, he shade, was that kopp stormed into the house that night to steal christopher's hidden stash, boxes full of drugs. >> how much marijuana did you store in these boxes? >> in the top box, about two pounds. >> what was the value of that? >> 7,000 bucks. >> in fact, the very day of the murder says christopher a hopped-up cop called him again and again desperate to buy the drugs. between his mother's birthday party and the movie that night he couldn't do it. >> why did you tell him that you can't get the drugs? >> obj...