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Member of the family. john sutton got her a job at his law firm. >> she was what i would imagine if somebody was going to marry into the family. my mother embraced her. she was a great influence on my brother and the family. >> reporter: christopher got his act together. enrolled in college. started working. his parents helped out by buying him a $300,000 condo. >> he started up his own company which -- in retrospect looking at everything he had done from arrests to drugs, you know, this is good behavior. we were all happy that things were better. >> reporter: anyway by the time of the murder,...

>> i think i said something along the lines, no, i don't know any reason why he would want to do this. >> reporter: a belief her father shared. >> i asked him early on. when he was able to talk at jackson hospital. could your son have something to do with this? he said i don't believe so. >> reporter: perhaps garrett kopp act add loan. but detectives were convinced christopher had to be mixed up in the awful shooting somehow. someone must know. and they were right. someone did. coming up -- john sutton survived two bullets to the head. could he survive being home alone with his son? >> christo...

Lingering anger at his parents for sending hem to the boot camp. they talked to camp alumni. this former resident was there when christopher got the news that he would have to stay well beyond his 18th birthday. >> i know he was upset. he was mad at his family for that. >> reporter: when detectives tracked down another paradise cove resident. he said christopher was a lot more upset than that. >> christopher made comments that his parents are going to pay for sending him, taking years out of his life. >> reporter: when they took a closer look at christopher's more recent history. they could ea...

Four hour period of the murder, five or six different names. and one of those came back to garrett kopp. >> reporter: who were they talking to? >> on the 22nd there was probably, i want to say maybe, 13 phone calls, if memory serves me right. they were made between garrett kopp and chris sutton's phone calls. >> a lot of calls. >> reporter: lots of calls. on the day of the murder. quite probably meant nothing at all, of course. still. garrett kopp was 20. a visitor around the sutton house. didn't seem to hatch a job or any direction in life. but christopher saw some good in him apparently. hir...

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...