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Keith morrison: detectives larry belyeu and art nanni had a theory to explain the shooting of john sutton >> reporter: the detectives had a theory to explain the shooting of john sutton and the murder of his wife susan which was that christopher sutton hired his dope-smoking buddy, garrett kopp to kill his parents. it was really just a theory. while the case against kopp was fairly strong, remember the murder weapon was found in his possession. the evidence against christopher was circumstantial. little more than guilt by association. the samoa boot camp may have given christopher a motive. bu...

For their son. that's where he met his future fiancee, a young woman from boston named juliette driscoll. juliette moved to miami and quickly became a member of the family. john sutton even got her a job at his law firm. she was, you know, what i would imagine if someone was going to marry into the family. my mother embraced her. juliette was a great influence on my brother and on the family, you know? keith morrison: 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,...

Right after the shooting. so now the complexion of the investigation changed. we were trying to think, why would garrett kopp do this? i mean, he's a like, 20-year-old kid. obviously there was a tie with christopher sutton and him. keith morrison: 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 with their son christopher, who was a handful from a very early age. keith morrison: a very early age, actually, as john sutton r...

Pretty intimately. absolutely. keith morrison: but detectives did not rush out and arrest kopp, for a simple but very important reason. there was a bigger question that needed to be answered. did his friend christopher know anything? was he even, perhaps, involved? shocking question, of course. this was sutton's son, the son who devoted himself to nursing his father back to health. but something about christopher bothered them, and had ever since he was interviewed the morning after the murder. he said that, i was at the movies. and said, do you want to see the tickets? just had them, right th...

All she knew about her brother was that he was a little bit rebellious, as most teenagers are at that age. i think i said something along the lines of, no, i don't know any reason why he would want to do this. keith morrison: a believe 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? and he says, i don't believe so. keith morrison: so perhaps garrett kopp acted alone after all. but detectives were convinced christopher had to be mixed up in that awful shooting somehow. someone must know. and they were right, so...