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A year later, and from the beginning made family a very big deal. but even though they were strikingly good looking, and financially successful and happy, they were stymied. no matter how they tried, and oh, how they tried, they could not have children. she was sure that as much as anybody else wanted a baby, she wanted a baby more than anyone in the world. keith morrison: but if wishing couldn't make susan pregnant, said her sister, mary, it could make her a mother by adoption. she got her wish, and as i said, it was the happiest day of her life when she brought christopher home. keith morris...

Garrett kopp was one of his best customers, but had good reason to turn on him. why? because years earlier, christopher said, he turned police informant to get drug charges dropped, and who did he finger? garrett kopp. what happened, if anything, with your relationship with garrett kopp after he was arrested? i didn't speak to him for a while. or he didn't speak to me, i should say, for a while. was he mad at you? yes. keith morrison: so was it payback time, now? yes, says christopher, it must have been. and that's his theory of the murder. christopher said he had nothing to do with it, told t...

Keith morrison: detectives larry belyeu and art nanni had a theory to explain the shooting of john sutton >> reporter: the detectives had a theory to explain the shooting of john sutton and the murder of his wife susan which was that christopher sutton hired his dope-smoking buddy, garrett kopp to kill his parents. it was really just a theory. while the case against kopp was fairly strong, remember the murder weapon was found in his possession. the evidence against christopher was circumstantial. little more than guilt by association. the samoa boot camp may have given christopher a motive. bu...

Right after the shooting. so now the complexion of the investigation changed. we were trying to think, why would garrett kopp do this? i mean, he's a like, 20-year-old kid. obviously there was a tie with christopher sutton and him. keith morrison: as for christopher himself, the detectives had no trouble finding people with an opinion about him. the cops should be looking at christopher sutton because of the lengthy family history of problems that john and susan had with their son christopher, who was a handful from a very early age. keith morrison: a very early age, actually, as john sutton r...

All rise for the jury, please. >> not an easy task these people were given. did christopher sutton mastermind a plan to kill his own parents? >> we battled for a while. >> who knew that those 12 were butting heads all day in the jury room and split down the middle after seven hours they went home. it was mostly garrett cop they had the most trouble with. >> he's making his deal because he didn't want the death penalty. >> which would mean what? you can't read what he's saying because he's an opportunist. >> the next day they tried again. ten hours went by, swept in the air-conditioned hallway....