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Four hour period of the murder, five or six different names. and one of those came back to garrett kopp. >> reporter: who were they talking to? >> on the 22nd there was probably, i want to say maybe, 13 phone calls, if memory serves me right. they were made between garrett kopp and chris sutton's phone calls. >> a lot of calls. >> reporter: lots of calls. on the day of the murder. quite probably meant nothing at all, of course. still. garrett kopp was 20. a visitor around the sutton house. didn't seem to hatch a job or any direction in life. but christopher saw some good in him apparently. hir...

His law practice, susan worked as office manager was booming. just that week he received a check for $1 million for a case he had settled. so, was robbery the motive? and if so, how did the killer get into the house? officers saw a curtain blowing in the wind, through a sliding glass door near the rear of the house, near the pool, the door latch showed it had been broken long before the night. >> the killer had gone in through the sliding glass door, had walked all the way through that house, no ransacking. drawers were not opened. and in the master bathroom, on the vanity was some beautiful d...

Records confirmed he actually called the police before rushing to the sutton house. so, as detectives eliminated early suspects like montodo. they went back to the basics of every homicide investigation. >> everyone is somewhat a suspect. you know you start with the family. and you keep working your way out. >> reporter: family. john and susan met on a blind date, were married a year later. from the beginning, made family a very big deal. but even though they were strikingly good looking and financially successful and happy, they were stymied. no matter how they tried, and oh, how they tried, ...

>> teddy montoto told police he had been on the phone with susan, heard the unmistakable sound of gunfire, rushed over to the sutton house with a gun of his own to try to help. but was that the whole story? they gave montoto a polygraph. it showed he had been deceptive, hiding something. >> what we learned was that he was having an affair with mrs. sutton. >> so montoto hadn't been straight with them, or with his good friend and partner, john sutton. but was he off the hook for murder? well, maybe. maybe not. when they checked phone records, it appeared montoto was still being deceptive. he to...

It was months after john sutton lost his wife and his own eyesight to an intruder with a 9 millimeter handgun. miami detectives were plowing their way through mounds of interview transcripts and tips and e-mails and phone records, anything to narrow down their list of suspects. and in the pile of material from the phone company, they came across a name. >> we isolated within a three or four-hour period of the murder, five or six different names, and one of those came back to garrett kopp. >> who was he talking to? >> on the 22nd, there was probably i want to say maybe 13 phone calls, if memory...