his daughters rushed to court. and in the end it was very quick. guilty of first degree murder. their father would not be coming home, probably ever. he was being cuffed. and potentially put away for life. and yeah, it hurts, and we are angry about that. you can still hear those daughters? i can. thinking of you unfairly convicting their father. absolutely. it weighs on me. but at the same time, i know who i am dealing with when it comes to chris hall. in fact, he is the one that s stolen their mother from them. it had been a peculiar fact of this case that the victims and defendants families stood solidly together against the prosecution. but what no one knew was the truth was more complicated. after the verdict at chris hall s sentencing, a letter was introduced from
he was a cop used to dealing with those kind of things with people that were not his wife. so courtney took charge. after calling 911, she started cpr on her mother with her father. emt and firefighter eric norwood was the first to respond. he just started, help my wife, oh, my god, help my wife, help my wife chris hall was kneeling at his wife s side, more in the way than anything, and so hysterical it was hard for the emts to help. it took us a little bit to get him out of the way. he didn t want to leave her. he kept holding her hand, yelling her name the paramedics worked on her for 20 minutes. no vital signs. no words to describe the fear and the anxiety. you re losing your mother and watching her go right in front of we tried to save her together. we just couldn t. the ambulance rushed her off to the hospital where she was declared dead. she had drowned in the family spa. a private family
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and i saw him put her underwater 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 and called out for courtney. 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 a jacuzzi in the morning, and then 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 that spa that morning, chris was overcome by some private fury, who knows what. the hidden violence, is what strunsky called it. and then killed his spouse when he thought nobody was looking. chris hall ambushed his wife, grabbed her by the hair, slammed her head twice into the
like a victory for the hall daughters. what was it like to get that hung jury? what did you think then? that was tragic. that was devastating to us. you expected a not guilty verdict? oh, yes. not a doubt. deputy d.e.a. burke strunsky was disappointed too. he was also determined to retry the case. but first, he sent his investigator on a mission to explore the life and marriage of chris hall. and what do you know. in idaho, where hall had been a disgraced police chief, the investigator uncovered a startling accusation. chris was a great, great con man. former los angeles police officer jerry winkel is a county commissioner up in idaho. but once upon a time he was chris hall s friend, that is, before a night of poker and booze when he said paul made a disturbing revelation, that he had shot himself in the leg when he was a cop in order to get medical retirement benefits.