May 5, 2021
After a long and valiant struggle, Rolene Berg’s earthly journey ended on April 22, 2021, while holding her daughter’s hand.
Born Dec. 5,1941, she was the only surviving child of Jack and Helen Berg.
Rolene graduated from Alpena Community College and then Michigan State University. Her first career was as a teacher and then in 1977, she joined New Way In, Inc as the administrator of the women’s reentry program. She assisted many women in their return to society and worked at New Way In until 1989, when she joined the State of Michigan as a Social Worker. In 1984, Rolene’s dream of being a mother was fulfilled when she adopted her daughter Melissa.
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son. first about the night his world went dark. the only thing i saw was for an instant a snap, i didn t see the gun, but in an instant, bam, and then, the next thing you knew, i woke up and i was on the floor. reporter: john sutton answered the questions as if the defendant sitting before him was a man he had never met, as if this was not the boy he had raised from birth. neither father nor son displayed the slightest emotion. it doesn t make any sense to to get on the witness stand and cry in front of the jury it can cause a mistrial. so, i dealt with it. i did what i had to do. reporter: soap he did. so he did. but was he right about his son? did the state really have the puzzle solved? or had its key witness been forced to lie? now, it was the defense s turn. and christopher s old girlfriend one of the prosecution star witnesses against him had a new story to tell. about how she was threatened by police.
there were vandalism of other people s property. reporter: they sent him off to boarding schools then. but he didn t last at any of them. failed, got kicked out. of course, the whole family tried, said his sister melissa. the trouble wasn t the lack of love. not at all. was there a sense that christopher was loved? oh, no doubt about it. reporter: but neither love nor money could prevent christopher from always ending back in the same place, trouble. i know that he dealt drugs. and at one point he was arrested for it. when i was younger, and, you know that was something that my father being a lawyer and, as well as a parent, you know what do we do? reporter: in 1995 when christopher was 16, when counselors and boarding schools and tough love had all been tried and found wanting, john and susan looked away, far, far away to find some help. on the pacific island of western
murder, the neighbor heard a boat roaring down the canal behind john s boat over here and it turned out that that woman owned such a boat. she was interviewed down the line also, and she was not the person responsible. reporter: what about the phone call susan was on when she was shot to death. detectives found the bloodstained handset susan dropped when the gunman opened fire. who was she talking to? had that person heard something? detectives got their answer almost right away. john sutton s law partner, teddy montodo had shown up at the house even before the first reports of the shooting hit the news that night. he was also armed. he was talking to susan sutton on the telephone when he heard a loud bang or what he said maybe gunshots he didn t know. reporter: at least that s what he told the police. depending on the all. truth in his statement he could be a suspect. absolutely. reporter: that said melissa had to be impossible. teddy and susan worked together they talked
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