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>> reporter: miami homicide detectives larry bellevue and 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. eve...

So, now the complexion of the investigation changed. >> 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 ge...

He said that i was at the movies. he said do you want to see the tickets. >> reporter: just had them right there like that? >> basically to me, red flag there. i want to prove i'm at the movies. >> reporter: or, perhaps, might mean nothing at all. the gun implicated kopp, of course, but christopher, no real evidence to show he knew a thing. >> there were still a lot of the pieces of the puzzles we are putting together. >> we can't prove it yet. >> reporter: like for exam pull, this big tantalizing piece of the puzzle right here. what in heavens name might an island in the far off pacific have ...

There were vandalism of other people's property. >> reporter: they sent him off to boarding schools then. but he didn't last at any of them. failed, got kicked out. of course, the whole family tried, said his sister melissa. the trouble wasn't the lack of love. not at all. was there a sense that christopher was loved? >> oh, no doubt about it. >> reporter: but neither love nor money could prevent christopher from always ending back in the same place, trouble. >> i know that he dealt drugs. and at one point he was arrested for it. when i was younger, and, you know that was something that my fat...

>> reporter: but christopher could not break so easily. and paradise cove was no paradise. in fact, there were many reports of physical abuse and restraints used on those who were uncooperative. something christopher learned when he first arrived. >> we knew that christopher sutton had complained that he had been hogtied, beaten. >> reporter: when his family was allowed to visit him a year later they did seem to beep a distinct change. a huge improvement. they found the buff, cleaned up young man who excelled at sports. it was, as you can clearly see, a happy family reunion. >> the is was real...