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 justice for christie hall. was it murder? hello, a young [inaudible] yard in 1 million and the moment it s unsettling. what she saw and what she did would set in motion a chain of events that would divide a family and a jury. here is keith we know the truth. and we know everything that happened. how do we know what we know? emotionally unsatisfying not to have that answer. so it is. even if w
didn t see it. you re basically telling us that we didn t know our whole lives we re a lie. to top it off, there s no proof of that. chris hall had never been violent, argue the defense, had no motive, no reason to suddenly turn on his wife. it had to be a freak accident. so, said the defense, lindsay patterson didn t really know what she saw. in fact, if she really witnessed chris hall drowning his wife, why then didn t she claim to see cristi s body in the spa when she looked again? it didn t make sense. but the highlight was the daughters testimony, emotional, quite powerful. it put prosecutor strunsky in a strange position, at odds with the victim s own family. they were so clear, if we had any inkling he had done this, we would have done something, we would have said so, we would have seen it. and i think that s what they truly believe in their hearts. this weighs on my greatly. but my job is to get justice for
said the defense, lindsay patterson didn t really know what she saw. in fact, if she really witnessed chris hall drowning his wife, why then didn t she claim to see cristi s body in the spa when she looked again? it didn t make sense. but the highlight was the hall s daughters testimony, emotional, quite powerful. it put prosecutor strunsky in a strange position, at odds with the victim s own family. they were so clear, if we had any inkling he had done this, we would have done something, we would have seen it. said so, we would have seen it. and i think that s what they truly believe in their hearts. this weighs on my greatly. but my job is to get justice for cristi. now it was up to a jury to decide, after six days of testimony, two days of deliberation, they couldn t. it was a deadlock. the judge declared a mistrial. chris hall walked out of court with his family, free, but not quite in the clear. and nothing at all