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,
Welcome back to dateline extra. Im craig melvin. Detectives were convinced garrett kopp was involved in the family shooting, and they didnt think he acted alone. But with no evidence tying chris to the crime, they needed a confession to connect chris to the case. Could they get garrett to come clean . Returning to our story, here is Keith Morrison. Detectives Larry Bellevue and art manning had a theory to explain the shooting of john sutton and the murder of his wife susan which was that Christopher Sutton hired his dopesmoking buddy, garrett kopp to kill his parents. It was really just a theory. While the case against kopp was fairly strong, remember the murder weapon was found in his possession. The evidence against christopher was circumstantial. Little more than guilt by association. The samoa boot camp may have given christopher a motive. But. I certainly needed more than that to make the arrest. I decided it was time to act. We are going to need a confession, i believe. Given wha
their star witness. juliette and garrett. after all, without them, the states case was week. why do you suppose they came forward anyway? because they were forced to. or so . juliet driscoll for example, why did she tell police christopher talked about killing his parents? they eventually tell her, if you don t tell us what we want to know you are going to be arrested in this murder. what did she do? she tells them what they want to know. in fact, the defense attorney got juliet to admit that state wouldn t have talked unless the state had threatened her. they told me that didn t hear what they want to hear that they were going to rest me instead. they threw my purse across the room. they slammed their hands on the desk. did they tell you was going to be for first degree murder?
made the best of it. and when his parents and melissa came to visit, they all had a wonderful time together. hardly a dysfunctional family. in the story the photos told. we happened with their parents? i was very happy to see my parents. i love them very much. so it given the jury an alternative. he had tried, at least, to defuse asylum mueller mode. enough? not nearly, said prosecutor what motive did garrett koch have to go and attempt to assassinate both of those people? none. what would ve did christopher sutton have to want both his parents dead? plenty. what is the story here? they have the statement of garrett koch, the drug praised the hug who gives this story to save himself from the death penalty. and the core statement of juliette driscoll. where is the evidence in this