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>> reporter: during a long, arduous recovery, the many surgeries, lingering fear, a protective layer formed around john's demeanor. he learned the hard way to keep focus in and emotion safely at bay. it was easier that way. survival mode. >> he just focuses on putting one foot in front of the other. i think i do the same thing. and if you were to break down emotionally all the time or -- dwell on what happened you wouldn't get out of bed. >> reporter: the doctors let him go home finally, but since home was not exactly livable, he moved in with christopher at his townhouse. >> my house was a me...

Two engaged to be married in ape to weeks. dress bought, invitations in the mail. >> 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 t...

John sutton had time to think and remember. one event in particular which perhaps he suppressed. it happened nine years earlier when christopher was 16. it was the deciding factor in sending him off to samoa. >> susan was going through christopher's room. and found a handwritten note planning our murder. >> reporter: what did it say? >> well it talked about killing us for insurance. >> reporter: a week after a warrant was taken out for his arrest, police found christopher and brought him to the miami-dade homicide bur rope. there he learned that both his alleged co-conspirator, garrett kopp an...

Garrett kopp and christopher sutton while ripping up bloody carpets actually called detectives to tell them they found new evidence at the crime 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 an...

Keith morrison: like, for example, this big tantalizing piece of puzzle, right here. what in heaven's name might an island in the far off pacific have to do with the shooting of john and susan sutton? coming up, trouble in paradise for a young christopher and his family. he was kidnapped in the middle of night, and he was 17 years old. we knew that christopher sutton had complained that he had been hogtied, beaten-- keith morrison: when "dateline" continues. what does life look like during your period? it's up to you, with tampax pearl. you get ultimate protection on your heaviest days and smo...