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Handwritten note planning our murder. >> what did it say? >> well, it talked about killing us for insurance. >> a week after a warrant was taken out for his arrest police found christopher and brought him to the miami-dade homicide bureau. there he learned that both his alleged co-con spiritor garrett kopp and juliet driscoll had somehow implicated him. >> i showed him excerpts out of juliet driscoll's statement saying i knew it was going to happen, i didn't know when. he immediately began to sob and said i'm [ bleep ]. >> but did that mean he was guilty or merely that he understood the police...

Honesty of his feelings. >> he told the jury while he was initially upset about going 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. >> were you happy to be with your parents? >> i was very, very happy to be with my parents. i loved them very much. >> so he had given the jury an alternative. he tried at least to diffuse the samoa motive? enough? not nearly said prosecutor kagan. >> what motive did garrett kopp have to go in to attempt to assassinate both of those people? none. ...

From the beginning made family a very big deal. 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 couldn't have children. >> she was sure that as much as anybody else wanted a baby, she wanted a baby more than anyone in the world. >> susan. >> but 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. >> christopher sutton was born april 13th, 1979, and the day they brought him home john sutton reme...

A doughy christopher sutton by the time his trial finally began. it was july 2010, a son charged with hiring a hit man who murdered his mother, blinded his father, and here he sat apparently confident, highly prepared ignoring most of the time the surviving members of his family a scant few feet away. >> you know, we locked eyes but i have nothing to say to him. >> melissa sat with her father, their father, front row seat. prosecutor karen kagan 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 d...

And news footage. >> the body of susan sutton -- >> i want to flip this tragedy, this catastrophe into a positive. >> meanwhile, in miami it was decision time. the alleged shooter, garrett kopp, had finally agreed to plea guilty and testify against sutton's son, christopher, in exchange for a 30 year sentence and no death penalty. sutton confronted the killer the day he entered a plea. >> during the next days, months, years, 20 years, 30 years i want you to think about what you planned and what you did that night. you can be assured that with my blindness every minute of every day that i will ...