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>> she sat there and said i don't know anything about it. christopher doesn't tell me. >> reporter: didn't tell her anything? or so she said. awe thought was my reaction. and i didn't buy it. >> reporter: i guess not. because he went on grilling this young woman for more than 12 hours. at the end of which, the detective played to her heart, her relationship with susan and john sutton. >> i said, look, susan really cared about you. she basically thought of you as a daughter. this woman didn't deserve to die like this. john doesn't deep serve to be blind the rest of his life. and i know for a fa...

Had the reports read to him and was convinced. >> i think -- that i was some where in between being c completely outraged and upset and some where i knew he had done it. >> reporter: melissa so grief stricken wasn't focused on who did it so much as what she had lost. >> a lot of people chase the killer. i think i chased missing my mom. >> police are looking for 25-year-old christopher patrick sutton. >> reporter: 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 suppressed. it ha...

And cry in front of the jury it can cause a mistrial. so, i dealt with it. i did what i had to do. >> reporter: soap he did. so he did. but was he right about his son? did the state really have the puzzle solved? or had its key witness been forced to lie? now, it was the defense's turn. and christopher's old girlfriend one of the prosecution star witnesses against him had a new story to tell. about how she was threatened by police. >> they told me if they didn't hear what they wanted to hear that they were going to arrest me instead. >> reporter: what would that do to the prosecution's case? w...

>> go in the back door, walk in, and shoot him. >> reporter: did it upset him to tell you the story. >> not really. not that i could tell. >> reporter: did he seem relieved he had told someone. >> no. during this time i was talking to him. he was pretty calm talking about it. >> reporter: after the confession, kopp was charged with first degree murder and allowed to see his father. his girlfriend and then his son and then taken off to jail. so, case closed? well you would think given what kopp told the detectives in there. but it did not give them what they needed to arrest christopher. there ...

>> what reason or explanation did he give you? >> he said his parents were -- worth about $500,000 to $1 million. >> reporter: a lot more, actually, house, insurance, law practice, christopher stood to inherit millions. so, was money a motive? or was it the stint apt the boot camp in samoa or both? the detective told the jury he tried to find out when he questioned christopher. i said did you hate your parents that much? and his answer? he said you tell me. he said you just don't know. >> reporter: but did that answer the question about guilt or motive? or would she? ms. driscoll if you will c...