reach a verdict. now, with the conclusion to our story. may 2011. for the second time, 12 men and women of riverside, california filed out of the courtroom, a second jury to make a life decision about chris hall. did he murder his wife? which medical examiner should they believe? the defendant s character? perhaps, most important, what did lindsey patterson see when she peeked three times into the hall s backyard. do you have dark moments of the soul where you think, i may have misinterpreted, misremembered? i say that every day. whether i misinterpreted, whether i thought i saw something that was not there. i didn t see everything. yeah. but i saw what i saw, and i know the conclusion of the
home from college to what she didn t know except her elder sister courtney had called and it sounded bad. she said, there was an accident. you need to just, you know, come home right away. it was courtney who eventually broke the news to ashton and breanna. their mother, their father s wife of close to 30 years, was dead. but neither courtney nor chris waited at the house to tell the sisters what happened or to comfort them. nor did they linger over the body at the hospital. they couldn t because father and daughter were escorted to separate squad cars and driven to the police station to talk about the accident. what was that ride like? quiet. you know, i just remember crying the whole time. i couldn t comfort my father. he couldn t comfort me. we got to the station and they stead my dad would just be a few more minutes. chris, so frenzied at the scene, had calmed down. he was a cop among cops, he said, and he understood what was necessary to help them sort out what happened.
it would end. here s what the jury heard her say in that call. i saw him put her under water and hold her there. and she was still on the phone with 911 when chris hall came outside and found his wife s body floating in the spa called out for courtney. investigator tom dove. i heard it best described during the trial as a cosmic coincidence that someone could see something that they perceived to be more than just some kind of kinky action in the jacuzzi in the morning and that actually turn out to be true, that a woman was actually drowned in that spa. that is not a coincidence. that is what she saw. the prosecution s theory? somehow, sitting in the spa that morning, chris was overcome by some private fury, who knows what a hidden violence is what strunsky called it and then killed his spouse when he thought nobody was looking.
was finally going to be able to grieve for the loss of his wife. then it was tuesday, 8:45 in the morning. the jury gathered. minutes later, a signal. they were ready. chris and his daughters rushed the courtroom, and in the end, it was very quick, guilty of first degree murder. their father would not be coming home. probably ever. he s being cuffed, and put away for life, and, yeah, it hurts, and we are angry about that. you can still hear those daughters. i can. grieving their father. absolutely. it weighs on them, but at the same time, i know who i m dealing with when it comes to chris haul. in fact, he s the one that stole their mother from them. it s been a peculiar fact
here again, steve morris. > chris christi hall s daughters clung together june 7, 2007, the worst of all days, waiting for their father to return from the police station. and they wondered, why was it taking so long? then the phone rang and they had their 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 when he said, they hurt he was crying. he was upset. very upset. reporter: but by the time police investigators were questioning chris, remember, they had heard from lindsay patterson, and at the station, chris version differed in one crucial way from lindsay s story. me holding her down in there, there s nothing that took place in that jacuzzi that would explain that. there was no sex.