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When he heard what she told police, he said he broke down in tears. not because of what she said, but why she must have said it. as soon as he started reading parts of juliette's statement, yeah, i started crying. and why were you crying? karen kahgan: objection. judge: overruled. i was crying because the woman i was going to be marrying in five weeks had lied to save herself. keith morrison: his were tears of frustration, too, said christopher. how could he defend himself against lies when his police interrogator kept accusing him of murder? i told him he's not going to believe anything i say...

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 scene. a bullet casing under the carpet. >> helpful handy man. by the way, i found another casing. i mean, come on. >> an indication maybe they didn't do it. >> i didn't think so. >> reporter: that's what any good defense attorney is going to point out. >> sure, sure. the casing was underneath something. i don't know how we missed it. we missed it. >> we were a little pissed. >> reporter: detectives remain convinced christo...

I think that showed his honesty as a witness. i cried when i got off the plane. keith morrison: when court resumed, christopher told the jury that, while he was initially upset about being sent to samoa, he got over it, made the best of it. and when his parents and melissa came to visit, they all had a wonderful time together. hardly a dysfunctional family in the story the photos told. bruce fleisher: well, were you happy to be with your parents? i was very, very happy to see my parents. you know, i love them very much. keith morrison: so, he'd given the jury an alternative. he tried, at least...

Absolutely. keith morrison: susan quit her job to be a full time mom, but susan kept trying to get pregnant, kept suffering through years of failed fertility treatments and miscarriages, and finally adopted a sister for christopher, melissa. she was and always has been a little angel. absolutely. she would probably be upset with me saying this, but she was pretty close to perfect. keith morrison: which seemed to describe the family, too. they told the kids they'd been adopted. didn't seem to worry them at all. my mom and my dad were my mom my dad. you know, there wasn't, you know, these are my...

Neither father nor son displayed the slightest emotion. --for an instant. it doesn't make any sense to get on the witness stand and cry in front of the jury. it can cause a mistrial. so i dealt with it. i did what i had to do. keith morrison: so he did it. but was he right about his son? did the state really have the puzzle solved? or had its key witness been forced to lie? coming up. now, it was the defense's turn. and christopher's old girlfriend-- one of the prosecution's star witnesses against him-- had a new story to tell about how she was threatened by police. they told me that if they d...