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Yeah, i started crying. >> why were you crying. >> objection. >> overruled. >> i was crying bah the woman i was going to be marrying in five weeks lied to save herself. >> tears of frustration too, said christopher, how could he defend himself against lies when his police interrogator kept accusing him of murder. i told him he will not believe what i say. and twist my words to use them against me, you know. like he did with juliet. because there is no proof that i did anything. because i know i didn't do anything. >> reporter: so there it was. another theory for the jury to consider. but there...

We are now -- we're now at five years, 11 months, i lost susan, i lost christopher long before that. >> reporter: christopher did not look at his father. had he done so he would not have seen tears. the bullets that tore into his head left john sutton unable to cry. i lost my eyesight. >> reporter: how was it in that courtroom. >> it needs to be over. >> raw. personal. here's the judge. >> it's ironic for me. i have a son who was born the exact same day as christopher sutton. when i heard his date during the

For taking years out of his life. she said this went for years. she interjected i knew it was going to happen. i just didn't know when. >> reporter: that night they put juliet into protective custody. >> the next day i prepared an arrest warrant for christopher sutton. >> reporter: and a female officer paid a visit to christopher's father home alone. >> she says, well, i have good news and bad news. and the good news is -- that we have arrested the assailant, he has admitted it. the bad news he has inculpated your son and said your son set him up. i go, man, oh, man. that was a bad night. a re...

>> reporter: amazing what the garden variety assault case in homestead, florida led to. garrett kopp was arrested with the gun that turned out to be the murder weapon in the sutton case. the very same garrett kopp who talked on the phone so often with christopher sutton. the friend who called christopher right after the shooting. so, now the complexion of the investigation changed. >> trying to think why would garrett kopp do this? i mean he is like 20-year-old kid. obviously there is a tie with christopher sutton and him. >> reporter: as for christopher himself, the detectives had no trouble ...

Sports. it was, as you can clearly see, a happy family reunion. >> the is was really happy event. we cried. we hugged. we said, you know, our hellos, and loved each other, and he was proud of, you know what he had learned and showed off at least to us. >> reporter: then five months after this reunion. christopher turned 18. time for him to come home. or so he thought. >> he was banking on getting out when he turned 18. but we also learned that john sutton, being a lawyer, had an order signed by a judge that said when you turn 18, if you haven't completed the course you are going to stay. which...