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Viewpoint. >> now the prosecution was ready. in may 2011, one year after the first jury deadlocked, burke strunsky went back to court armed with his new evidence for a brand new panel of hall's peers. jurors heard medical experts testify about the injuries to christi'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 winkle traveled from idaho to tell jurors what he thought of chris hall. >> i was ashamed to admit that he was once a police officer. >> but, if the prosecution had upped its game in the...

>> unbelievably long and painful. 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...

>> 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 every day, whether i misinterpre...

>> from the center of the pool and towards where lindsay was standing, anywhere i was laying, you could not be seen from lindsay's viewpoint. once i sank below the surface and hit the 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 the 911 call. cristi's co-workers testified for the prosecution. and hi...

Needed to explain what patterson saw or did not see? >> we were not able to explain to the jury why she did not see christie at that point. i think that allowed the defense making the argument that christie hall was inside. >> the prosecution hired a water expert to do a recreation at the hall's spa. >> andrea ferris had been insisting and drowning investigations for the last 20 years. >> she got in the spa from the spot where lyndsey was watching. from the center of the pool and words where lyndsey was standing. anywhere i was laying, you could not see from lyndsey's point. you could not see ...