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and this is dateline! >> this is a tragedy on top of a tragedy now. >> it happened so quickly. their parents in the backyard spa. their mom in trouble. >> my dad just panicked. >> a sudden slip. a fatal fall. >> you're losing your mother. you're watching her go right in front of you. >> someone else was watching her. a curious neighbor. >> it was scary. the look on his face was almost undescribable. >> what had she seen? was this drowning really an accident? >> she's got a huge gash on her head, something like that is not consistent with just falling down. >> a husband and father is ...

>> a sudden slip, a fatal fall -- >> you losing your mother, watching her go right -- >> someone else was watching her too, a curious neighbor. >> it was scary. the look on his face was almost indescribable. >> what had she seen? was this drowning really an accident? >> she's got a huge gash on her head. -- consistent with just falling down. >> a husband and father is suddenly under suspicion. >> who is crying, were crying. he said, they got -- >> three daughters stand by their dad, and one prosecutor stands firm. >> he's holding his wife of almost three decades under the water and -...

A woman peers into a neighbors yard and sees something for a few mysterious seconds a man, a woman and a moment thats unsettling. What she saw and what she. What had she seen . Was this drowning really an accident . Shes got a huge gash on her head. Something like that is not consistent with just falling down. A husband and father is suddenly under suspicion. Hes crying and were crying. He said, they think i hurt mom. Three daughters stand by their dad. And one prosecutor stands firm. Hes holding his wife of almost three decades under the water. My job is to get justice for cristi hall. Was it...

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 were there every minute. their father's enduring champions. and this time, more family members came to court. two of cristi's own siblings testified for chris. >> and said the same thing. we have not a doubt in our minds that this was not a moment of violence. this was not a murder. the victim's own sister and own brother. that's an amazing thing to see. >> perhaps it was. but listen to this, the defense had one more very significant witness....

The story about hall shooting himself for retirement benefits? >> that was just absolutely a lie. that's wrong. there was never, never any evidence or indication or not even a moment's breath that he shot himself. >> 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 desc...