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You know, we locked eyes, but i have nothing to say to him. keith morrison: melissa's sat with their father-- their father-- front row seat. prosecutor karen kahgan told the jury a horror story, the state's version of what happened the night of the murder. the man for whom the gunman had signed on to commit a double murder. a man who was intimately familiar with john and susan sutton. that man? their son, christopher sutton. keith morrison: then, graphic evidence. a crime scene soaked in blood and littered with bullet casings. the medical examiner placed knitting needles in a mannequin to show...

Or so he thought. he was banking like getting out when he turned 18. but we also learned that john 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're going to stay, which infuriated christopher sutton. why did you decide to keep him there when he turned 18? we had concerns that he wasn't ready to return. he had not, quote, "graduated the program." how did he feel about that? he was quite upset. he wanted to come home. he wanted things his way. he always wanted things his way. keith morrison: but this time, finally, tou...

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...

The hospital where her father was in intensive care. her brother, christopher, had already arrived. both of them were reeling from loss of their mother. and now they kept vigil at their gravely wounded father's bedside. >> we didn't even know if he was going to live for a long time. >> reporter: pretty touch and go wasn't it? >> to say gruesome is, if i didn't know his hands and know little intricate pieces of him you wouldn't have known it was him. >> reporter: you faced the shocking prospect of becoming an orphan. >> i don't think that ever crossed my mind. he was still alive. >> reporter: m...