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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 certainly, you know, deserve to be blind the rest of his life. and i know for a fact garrett did this under the direction of christopher." finally, she started crying, and i go, "i think i may have her." keith morrison: with the tears came a story, what christopher had said to her that just might nail him for murder. the parents deserved to die for taking years out of his life. she said that this went on for years. she int...

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The behavior of guilty men. 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 christo...

I think that showed his honesty as a witness. i cried when i got off the plane. keith morrison: when court resumed, christopher told the jury that, while he was initially upset about being sent to samoa, he got over it, made the best of it. and when his parents and melissa came to visit, they all had a wonderful time together. hardly a dysfunctional family in the story the photos told. bruce fleisher: well, were you happy to be with your parents? i was very, very happy to see my parents. you know, i love them very much. keith morrison: so, he'd given the jury an alternative. he tried, at least...

You know, we locked eyes, but i have nothing to say to him. keith morrison: melissa's sat with their father-- their father-- front row seat. prosecutor karen kahgan told the jury a horror story, the state's version of what 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. keith morrison: 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...