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His client and a blind father, a survivor of christopher sutton's alleged plot to kill this parents. the fact that john sutton survived and was blind, to me, was the greatest prejudice in the case. and there he was, right behind the bar the whole time. the jury would hear something bad, and they'd look over at john sutton. they had to be thinking, "this poor man. look what he has to go through life with." keith morrison: for the victim, fleisher knew, he must display only sympathy. so instead, he'd attack the murder investigation itself, the way the police came up with their two star witnesses...

A lot of people chase the killer, and i think i chased missing my mom. newscaster: police are looking for 25-year-old christopher patrick sutton. keith morrison: and christopher was nowhere to be found. day after day, as police looked for him, john sutton had time to think and remember, one event in particular, which perhaps he'd suppressed. it happened nine years earlier when christopher was just 16. it was the deciding factor in sending him off to samoa. susan was going through christopher's room and found a handwritten note planning our murder. what did it say? well, it talked about killing...

To narrow down their list of suspects, and in the pile of material from the phone company, they came across a name. we isolated, within a three or four hour period of the murder, five or six different names. and one of those came back to garrett cop. who was he talking to? on the 22nd, there was probably, i want to say maybe 13 phone calls, if memory serves me right. there were made between garrett cop and chris sutton's cell phones. a lot of calls. a lot of calls. keith morrison: lots of calls, on the day of the murder. quite probably meant nothing at all, of course. still, garrett kopp was 2...

He hadn't seen her in years. now, her testimony could send him away for life. karen kahgan: what did the defendant tell you about getting his parents killed or taken care of? same thing i'd been hearing for the last six years. karen kahgan: which was that he could find someone to kill them? find somebody, they deserved it. keith morrison: this wasn't easy for juliette as she recalled the last time she saw susan sutton the night of that birthday celebration a few hours before she was killed. we went over. it was me, chris, john, susan, and teddy. we had dinner. karen kahgan: do you remember tha...

>> it wasn't my gun. looks like we'll beep here a long time today. >> reporter: and they were. hours and hours. >> do you know how the house was set up. i said i don't believe you did this on your own. give me the reason as to how chris got you to do this? >> heap basically said look, you have to look out for me and my family because i am afraid of him. >> reporter: chris is going to kill him. >> if he didn't do this. >> reporter: having given himself an excuse. kopp confessed. said christopher was behind it all.