the gold coast. the sun, the sea, and this million dollar home, a mystery. he was talking on the telephone when he heard a loud bang. a woman, murdered. her husband went blind. are you bleeding? do you see any blood? i m bleeding all over, yes. okay. i can t see. but who? everyone is somewhat of a suspect. and why? what brings someone to make a decision they are going to do this. was it love? what we learned was that she was having an affair with the sun. was that money? nobody knows what happened except for him and garrett. what was the truth, hidden here on this tropical paradise? it was an assassination, a hit, no question. it was august, hot in coral gables. the air was short sticking thick as night fell. the small debris pushed the palms. and the artificial pool of attorney john sutton house was a party already known early. it was susan sutton s birthday attending their son, his girlfriend, and john s law partner. melissa,
bloodstained hands that she dropped when the gun opened fire. who was she talking to? that person heard something? detectives got their answer almost right away. john sutton s law partner teddy montoto 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. that s what he told police? depending on the amount of truth in his statement, he could be a suspect? absolutely. but that had to be impossible. teddy and susan worked together! they talked often and frequently late at night. it is my mom s best friend. i call him my godfather, pretty much. like a relative. but police were suspicious. why had montoto arrived so quickly after the shooting? why was he armed with a handgun? a few questions, and perhaps more important, some testing to do. we interviewed him extensively.
one of the homicide actives 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 the parent vitriol, montoto slipped off the list top suspect. for one thing, he could not 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, and you keep working your way out. family. john and susan met on a blind date and we re married a year later from the beginning they made family a very big
melissa sutton, 19 years old, i looked away her new college dorm life and northern florida unaware what had happened to her parents tonight before. and where her mother was dead. unaware that in a miami emergency room, doctors were fighting to save her father s life. who told you and how? i actually got a call from a friend who that i hope your dad is going to be okay, and i went, what? like, maybe a heart attack or something. out of the blue? out of the blue. practically melissa called every never she could back home. called my mom, she didn t answer. i called teddy montoto, my dad s partner, extremely close family friend and he didn t answer. i called my brother, he said he couldn t talk right now. are you frantic? i didn t know what, what level. eventually, melissa reached teddy montoto overlooked utley broke the news to her on the phone you brought her back to miami at the hospital her father was an intensive care. her brother, 26-year-old christopher had already
he d been on the phone with susan, heard the unmistakable sound of gunfire, rushed over to the sutton house with a gun of his own to try and help. was that the whole story? they gave montoto a polygraph. it showed he d been deceptive, hiding something. what we learned was he was having an affair with misses sutton. so, montoto hadn t been straight with them or with his good friend and partner, john sutton. but was he off the hook for murder? well, maybe. maybe not. when they checked phone records, it appeared teddy montoto montoto was still being deceptive. he told the affair had been recent and brief. that s not about the phone records said. did teddy montoto have some secret reason to kill his lover and her husband? they tested him for gunshot