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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 shooter they were sure, was still hanging around. isn't that right that kopp was there? >> absolutely. again we still didn't want to tip our hand. >> reporter: should christopher have been a suspect at all. after all does this sound like 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...

Sutton, being a lawyer, had an order signed by a judge that said when you turn 18, if you haven't completed the course you are going to stay. which infuriated christopher sutton. >> reporter: why did you decide to keep him there when he turned 18? >> we had concerns he wasn't ready to return. he had not "graduated the program." >> reporter: how did he feel about that? >> he was quite upset. >> reporter: he wanted to come home. >> he wanted things his way. he always wanted things his way. >> reporter: this time, finally, tough love seemed to work. christopher was 19 and a changed man when he re...

>> trying to think why would garrett kopp do this? i mean he is like 20-year-old kid. obviously there is a tie with christopher sutton and him. >> reporter: 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 had with their son christopher who was a handful from a very early age. >> reporter: a very early age, actually. as john sutton recalled all too clearly. did he get into fights at school? >> i can remember that happe...

>> we knew that christopher sutton had complained that he had been hog-tied, beaten. >> when his family was allowed to visit him about a year later, there did seem to be a distinct change. a huge improvement. they found a buff, cleaned-up young man who excelled at sports. it was, as you can clearly see, a happy family reunion. >> firefighters a really happy event. we cried, we hugged, we said, you know, our hellos and loved each other, and he was proud of what he'd learned and showed off at least to us. >> then five months after this reunion, christopher turned 18. time for him to come home, o...

>> 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 had with their son christopher, who was a handful from a very early age. >> a very early age, actually. as john sutton recalled all too clearly. did he get into fights at school? >> i can remember that happening early on in preschool. >> it got worse as christopher got older. did he get into trouble? >> absolutely. there was vandalism. not only of our own things, ther...