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
now, back to dateline. welcome back. i m craig melvin. chris hall was charged in the drowning death of his wife cristi. hall s daughters stood by him, proclaiming his innocence. would anything change their minds about their dad? here again is keith morrison. this is a hard-charging man, ex-member in good standing of the san francisco d.a. s office, now senior deputy d.a. in riverside. that takes skill, persuasive he would need them in the murder case against the former police chief and family man, chris hall. mr. hall on the surface looks like a loving family man. he looks like a good father. he is somebody that had the support of his family. so he did. but he wasn t buying the loving father and family man bid. no. when he