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Front row seat. prosecutor karen keagan told the jury a horror story. the state's version of what happened. >> 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. >> reporter: 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 where susan was shot six times. her son took a deep breath, recoiled, dreadful. but, how would the state prove that christopher was behind it all. ...

Nothing. >> reporter: seven men, five women on the jury. and real doubt in the air. >> the when he first started saying his testimony. he put it out of my mind. >> reporter: coming up, the jury speaks. >> we, the jury -- >> soap does christopher sutton. >> sure, i could have been a better guy. >> reporter: as his father hopes for a miracle. standing still... and with godaddy, i've made my ideas real. ♪ ♪ i made my own way, now it's time to make yours. ♪ ♪ everything is working, working, just like it should ♪

Art manney had a problem they were afraid the man who shot sutton was a frequent visitor at the sutton home. and they at least suspected the sutton's own son, now john's care giver was all mixed up in it somehow. >> i was becoming more concerned. >> reporter: was john sutton a sitting duck for another attack one that might finish him off. you must have found it a little worrisome that john sutton was actually living with his son christopher and being cared for by christopher. >> sure. >> reporter: still they worried but did not act. even though they knew full well that garrett kopp, the shoote...

>> 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 and fiancee jewel yet driscoll implicated him. >> i showed him certain excerpts out of juliet driscoll's statement. he began to sob, put his head on the table and said i'm [ bleep ]. but did that mean he was guilty? or merely that he understood the police believed he was guilty? >> he made comments like, there is no magical way i can tell you where to go to find the truth. >> reporter:...

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 not forget you. >> all rise, please. >> reporter: with that the murder trial of christopher sutton could begin. now, florida law again, now prosecutors could use the sworn testimony in court of both of the girlfriend and the hit man. but even with that, the case was as prosecutor kathleen hogue knew all too well, rather weak. >> this was a circumstantial case, extremely circumstantial. really based on motive. >> reporter: john sutton wanted the...