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welcome back. chris hall's first trial ended in a deadlocked jury. but with new evidence presented by both sides 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 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 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

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heard about the steve harmon and paul gretch. you've said two things. special man, special situation. >> i think both of us can say this is a man that we like and we know. we don't feel he could have done anything like this. >> chris hall and his daughters prepared for a trial which they hoped would make clear to everybody, the police, the neighbor, the world, that chris would not, could not, did not harm the love of his life. >> there was never, in 30 years of marriage, never one moment of there was no motive for this man to kill his wife. >> they had a look at neighbor lindsay patterson's eyewitness account and suggested it was not conclusive at all. it was tragically incomplete. >> she saw three snapshots. what is missed by everyone is the wife getting into the jacuzzi, slipping, falling into the jacuzzi, hitting her head, going unconscious, and drowning.

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>> anyway, the story was prejudicial, said the judge, so he threw that out too. as for what lindsay patterson says she saw, chris hall holding his wife's head underwater, the defense had prepared its own visual demonstration, had taken pictures from her angle at the wall to show that it could look like two people were touching in the spa even if they weren't. >> this is what she described seeing in her testimony. but on the close-up, what do you notice? >> they're not touching but they're in position where they could be. >> but that's different than actually touching. >> again, the hall daughters

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lindsay. so she called 9-1-1. >> 9-1-1, state your emergency. >> i heard a woman screaming. >> so now, hours an hours later, the detectives confronted chris with lindsey story. why, they asked, didn't her story matches? >> so am i supposed to believe the witnesses lying? >> i'm not going to say she's lying, she sounds like a truthful person or whatever. but i do not know. i cannot explain what she is saying that she saw. >> so now, that question that we posed as we began, did lindsay patterson really know what she saw? >> dateline returns after the break! r th break! hey, you should try new robitussin honey medi-soothers for long-lasting cough and sore throat relief. try new robitussin lozenges with real medicine

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it was a lie they said. >> it was hard to hear someone basically say, we know your parents better than we do. and we know our father is a sociopath. and we know and we didn't see it. and that we're blind to it and he knows that there was hidden you're basically tell us violent in our parent's marriage that we did not know our whole lives. >> and we just didn't see it. you're there's no proof of that. >> basically telling us that we didn't know our whole lives we're >> to top it off, there's no proof of that. chris paul had >> chris hall had never been violent, argue the defense, had no motive, no reason to suddenly turn never been on his wife. it had to be a freak so, said the defense, lindsay patterson didn't really know what violent, argued the defense. and there was no reason to deter and on his wife. it had to be a freak accident. so, said the defense. lindsay patterson did not really know what she saw. in fact, if she really witnessed chris hall drowning his wife, why then didn't she claim to she saw. see cristi's body in the spa when in fact, she looked again? it didn't make but the highlight was the if he had recently daughters'testimony, emotional, witnessed chris hall quite powerful. it put prosecutor and the wife. why did she see them in the spot when they left again. strunsky in a strange position, at odds with the victim's own family. they were so clear, if we had any inkling he had done this, we would have done something, we would have said so, we would

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could not in his opinion have been the result of a single accidental and the m.e. argued the particular type of bruising on cristi's face and body was the hallmark of a >> the totality of injuries were not consistent with somebody slipping and falling and then a rescue attempt. >> and there was a clump of hair in the bottom of the spa, still entwine with a broken plastic hair that, said the prosecutor, could have only come from a violent >> when you lose that amount of hair, it's not explained by any kind of fall. >> there were minor hiccups in the lindsay patterson, for example, was a little inconsistent about how long she looked over the backyard wall that first time she saw something going on. was it just a few seconds? or as long as a minute? but either way, said

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the prosecutor, lindsay was sure she saw physical contact. that was the important thing. >> he was given the opportunity to explain any physical contact that could in any way reasonably explain what lindsay patterson in other words, were they washing each other, were they involved in a sex act? was there anything she could have misinterpreted? and at the end of the day, you're not just stuck with the fact that lindsay patterson made a mistake. you have to actually believe that lindsay patterson really hallucinated about everything she >> and what made lindsay's story all the more convincing, said prosecutor strunsky, was she told it before finding out what happened to cristi. she dialled 911 a full minute and a half before anyone from the hall house before lindsay had any idea how it would end. here is what the jury heard her say in that call. >> and i saw him put her underwater and hold her there.

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answer. >> you know, broken-up words, and he's crying, and we're crying. that was when he said they think i hurt mom. i mean, he was very upset. >> but he didn't sound surprised. >> now he was crying, he was crying. >> he was upset. >> very upset. >> but, by the time investigators were questioning chris, remember, they had heard from lindsay patterson. and at the station, chris'version of events in the spa differed in one crucial detail from what lindsay described seeing that first time she peered over the wall and into the hall's backyard. >> that specifically, me holding her down in there, there's nothing that took place in that jacuzzi that would explain that. there was no sex. there was no -- i don't even think we had any contact while we were in the jacuzzi other than when i was getting her out. >> but investigators were getting a good look at cristi's body and saw wounds that to them suggested a struggle and

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spa. >> 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. so once i sank below the surface and hit that bottom, you could not see me at all from lindsay's viewpoint. >> and now the prosecutor was 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 officer. >> if the prosecution had upped its game between the two years of trial, so had the defense. that's when well-known attorneys steve harmon and paul

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first trial ended in a deadlocked jury. but with new evidence presented by both sides during his retrial, the jury was finally able to reach a verdict. now, with the conclusion to our 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'backyard? >> 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

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