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Want to test drive the latest devices? be our guest. want to save on mobile? just ask. want to demo the latest innovations and technology? do it here. come see how we're making things simple, easy and awesome. plus, come in today and ask about xfinity mobile. a new kind of wireless network designed to save you money. visit your local xfinity store today. chris hall's first trial ended in a deadlocked jury. but with new evidence presented by both sides during his retrial, the jury was able to reach a verdict. now, with the conclusion to our story, here is keith morrison. >> may, 2011. for the...

Everything's like the day that she was murdered. it's like having everything ripped open again. >> reporter: the trial finally started in may 2011. >> she has 11 lacerations on the back of the skull. >> reporter: it was paul miovas' first trial as district attorney in cold case homicide, and he was worried. >> i went into it with a heavy heart. i knew it would be a task. >> reporter: because the dna from kenneth dion did not prove he raped and killed bonnie, only that sex took place between them. and beyond the dna, the prosecutor had little to connect dion to the murder. there was no weapon, ...

Story, here is keith morrison. >> may, 2011. for the second time, 12 men and women of riverside county, california, filed out of the courtroom, a second jury, to make a life decision about chris hall. did he murder his wife? which of the medical examiners should they believe? whose account of the defendant's character and, perhaps most important, what did lindsay patterson see when she peeked three times into the halls' back yard. >> do you ever have those sort of little dark moments of the soul where you think, i may have misinterpreted, misremembered -- >> it's something i've thought about e...

And hit that bottom, you could not see me at all from lindsay's viewpoint. >> and now the prosecutor was ready. in may 2011, one year after the first jury deadlocked, burke strunsky went back to court armed with new evidence for a brand-new panel of hall's peers. jurors heard medical experts testify about the injuries to cristi's head and once again heard lindsay's 911 call. >> i saw him put her under water. >> cristi's co-workers testified for the prosecution. and jerry winkel travelled from idaho to tell jurors what he thought of chris hall. >> i was ashamed to admit he was once a police off...

Explain what lyndsay patterson saw or didn't see. why didn't she see christy's drowned body when she peeked over the wall a second time? >> we were not able to explain to the jury why she didn't see christy at that point. and i think that allowed the defense to make the argument that christy hall was inside. >> the prosecution hired a water expert to do a recreation of the hall spa. andrea has been assisting law enforcement nationwide with drowning investigations for the past 20 years. she got in the spa while she was videotaped in the spot lyndsay was watching. >> from the center of the pool ...