girlfriend and the hitman. but even with that, the case was, as prosecutor kathleen hope knew all too well, rather weak. this was a circumstantial case, extremely circumstantial. really based on motive. john sutton wanted the law to convict his son of murder, but was christopher actually guilty? coming up, in court, a killer returns to the scene of the crime. what did you do at the end of the hallway? see to shoot. who did you shoot at first? john. when blind justice continues. [ male announcer ] humana and walmart have teamed up
any of this. it s like a bad dream. but then the dream got worse. teddy was a possible murder suspect. one of the homicide detectives related to me that there had been a problem with the polygraph. because he was actually a suspect. i suspect so. anybody that was probably anywhere near me was a suspect. but as sutton was absorbing the news of his wife s apparent betrayal, montoto slipped off the list of top suspects. for one thing, he couldn t have been the shooter. he was on the phone with susan when it happened. records confirmed he actually called the police before rushing to the sutton house. so as detectives eliminated early suspects like montoto, they went back to the basics of every homicide investigation. everyone is somewhat of a suspect. you start with the family, you keep working your way out. family. john and susan met on a blind
huh man trials would be next. one step up. so in march 2008, almost three years after his son was arrested, sutton and his girlfriend, kathie, were on the cold wet streets of boston, on their way to an appointment. so there s a chin rest in front of you. first, dr. joseph rizzo at massachusetts eye and ear institute vauted sutton s one intact eye and discovered even though the nerve was destroyed, the rest of the eye theoretically at least could work. my son is in jail charged for first degree murder. they listened to the awful story how john lost his eyesight. they explained what they were doing here, like growing corneas in a petri dish. working on optic nerve regeneration. john took it all in, amazed. and for the first time since the shooting, he felt a surge of
he was intubated. we re looking at maybe incidents in his law firm where people may have been angry at him. civil attorneys take a lot of money from people and they make people mad. i said find out if any of these people had reason for revenge on john sutton. john sutton ran his law firm like he ran most things in life. efficient and hard-driving. in fact, detectives heard about one woman who lost a $97,000 lawsuit and was so mad, she threatened to shoot up john s firm. and the very night of the murder, a neighbor heard a boat roaring down the canal just behind john s house over here, and it turned out that woman owned such a boat. she was interviewed down the line also, and she was not the person responsible. but what about that phone call susan was on when she was shot to death? detectives found the blood-stained handset susan dropped when the gunman opened fire. who was she talking to? had that person heard something? detectives got their answer
tried, said his sister, melissa. the trouble wasn t a lack of love. not at all. was there a sense that christopher was loved? i mean, no doubt about it. 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 as well as a parent, what do we do. finally, 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 samoa there was a place called paradise cove, a so-called boot camp for troubled kids. behavior modification, their specialty. it s a long way away, samoa.