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
of the hall spa. andrea has been assisting law enforcement with drowning investigations for 20 she got in the 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
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.
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 gretch entered the scene and came out swinging. that story about cristi s affair, for example? there s a shadow hanging over all of this stuff. a very human sort of shadow, which is that she was having a little affair, right, had a boyfriend. yes. if the husband knew about but the wife never, ever mentions it and tells the husband. no one tells the husband. quite right, said the judge. and because there was no evidence that chris knew about his wife s affair, he ruled it out of the 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.
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