and this is dateline! this is a tragedy on top of a tragedy now. it happened so quickly. their parents in the backyard spa. their mom in trouble. my dad just panicked. a sudden slip. a fatal fall. you re losing your mother. you re watching her go right in front of you. someone else was watching her. a curious neighbor. it was scary. the look on his face was almost undescribable. what had she seen? was this drowning really an accident? she s got a huge gash on her head, something like that is not consistent with just falling down. a husband and father is suddenly under suspicion. he s crying and we re crying. he said, they think i hurt mom. three daughters stand by their dad, and one prosecutor stands firm. he s holding his wife of almost three decades under the water. my job is to get justice for cristi hall. was it murder? hello and welcome to dateline a young woman peers into her neighbor s yard and sees something for a few mysterious seconds, a
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
A woman peers into a neighbors yard and sees something for a few mysterious seconds a man, a woman and a moment thats unsettling. What she saw and what she. What had she seen . Was this drowning really an accident . Shes got a huge gash on her head. Something like that is not consistent with just falling down. A husband and father is suddenly under suspicion. Hes crying and were crying. He said, they think i hurt mom. Three daughters stand by their dad. And one prosecutor stands firm. Hes holding his wife of almost three decades under the water. My job is to get justice for cristi hall. Was it murder . Hello and welcome to dateline extra. Im craig melvin. In this hour, a story that calls to mind the master of suspense. A plot straight out of an Alfred Hitchcock film. A young woman peers into her neighbors yard and sees something for a few seconds. A man, a woman, and a moment that was unsettling. Was it some kind of accident . A crime . Maybe even a murder . What she saw and what she d
more than one nasty blow to the head. so the police had to choose. which version, chris hall s or lindsay patterson s, was more likely the true story of what happened? tom dove is a senior investigator for the riverside d.a. i think they felt this was enough to say this was not an accidental drowning. it was purely much more suspicious than that. and so before the night was over, chris hall was arrested and charged with the murder of his the girls could stop waiting. he wasn t coming home. it was obviously a tragedy, losing our mother that day. but this is a tragedy on top of a tragedy now. because knowing our parents, it s the farthest thing from and one that felt infected by some kind of madness, said the cristi was the love of their father s life. the center of everything for him. how could he, someone so happy in
one crucial detail from what lindsay described seeing that first time she peered over the wall and into the hall s backyard. that specifically, me holding her down in there, there s nothing that took place in that jacuzzi that would explain that. there was no sex. there was no i don t even think we had any contact while we were in the jacuzzi other than when i was getting her out. but investigators were getting a good look at cristi s body and saw wounds that to them suggested a struggle and more than one nasty blow to the head. so the police had to choose. which version, chris hall s or lindsay patterson s, was more likely the true story of what happened? tom dove is a senior investigator for the riverside d.a. i think they felt this was enough to say this was not an accidental drowning. it was purely much more suspicious than that. and so before the night was over, chris hall was arrested and charged with the murder of his wife. the girls could stop