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>> reporter: as a building contractor brad waite spends a lot of time in his truck. >> reporter: he's haunted by the possibility that at the very moment his sister, shirlee sherman, was being murdered in march 2008, he was driving by, close enough, perhaps, to have heard her scream. >> i basically almost drove by hunter's house, and so it would have been at 4:00 that afternoon. i'd had no idea shirlee was working there that day. >> reporter: later that night, brad says he heard about the two murders in dundee on the 10:00 news. even then he says he didn't know his sister was a victim. that new...

Optic nerve in mice using stem cell therapy and drugs, human trials would be next. so in march 2008, almost three years to the day after his son was arrested, sutton and his girlfriend kathy were on the cold, rain swept streets of boston on the way to an appointment at the clinic. >> okay. there is a chin rest in front of you. a doctor evaluated, sutton's one intact eye and discovered though the nerve was destroyed, the rest of the eye, theoretically at least could work. >> my son is in jail, charged with first degree murder. >> reporter: they listened to the awful story of the way john lost h...

>> reporter: as a building contractor brad waite spends a lot of time in his truck. >> reporter: he's haunted by the possibility that at the very moment his sister, shirlee sherman, was being murdered in march 2008, he was driving by, close enough, perhaps, to have heard her scream. >> i basically almost drove by hunter's house, and so it would have been at 4:00 that afternoon. i'd had no idea shirlee was working there that day. >> reporter: later that night, brad says he heard about the two murders in dundee on the 10:00 news. even then he says he didn't know his sister was a victim. that new...

Affiliated research institute in boston where a renowned researcher had regenerated the optic nerve in mice using stem cell therapy and drugs, human trials would be next. so in march 2008, almost three years to the day after his son was arrested, sutton and his girlfriend kathy were on the cold, rain swept streets of boston on the way to an appointment at the clinic. >> okay. there is a chin rest in front of you. a doctor evaluated, sutton's one intact eye and discovered though the nerve was destroyed, the rest of the eye, theoretically at least could work. >> my son is in jail, charged with f...

As he waited for his son's long delayed trial he pursued with something like an obsession, a quest to regain his eyesight. and most people might have given up by then. can't do anything. live with it. >> not even close. i won't take no for an answer. >> reporter: some of the best hospitals in the country, sutton had been told there was simply nothing to be done. he would be blind for life. the bullets had permanently destroyed his optic nerve. john had heard about a landmark break through at harvard affiliated research institute in boston where a renowned researcher had regenerated the optic n...