a very big rush. she s still nowhere to be seen. the look on his face was almost undescribable. it was almost as if he had just gone into another world. it was scary. it was instinct that told her something was wrong, said lyndsay. so she called 911. 911, state your emergency. i heard a woman scream. so now, hours and hours later, the detectives confronted chris with lyndsay s story. why, they asked, didn t her story match his? so, am i supposed to believe the witness is lying? i m not going to say she s lying. sounds like a truthful kid, whatever. i don t know, you know. i can t explain what she s saying she saw. so now that question we posed as we began, did lyndsay patterson really know what she saw? to your bumper, cause..
explain what lyndsay patterson saw or didn t see. why didn t she see christy s drowned body when she peeked over the wall a second time? we were not able to explain to the jury why she didn t see christy at that point. and i think that allowed the defense to make the argument that christy hall was inside. the prosecution hired a water expert to do a recreation of the hall spa. andrea has been assisting law enforcement nationwide with drowning investigations for the past 20 years. she got in the spa while she was videotaped in the spot lyndsay was watching. from the center of the pool and towards where lyndsay was standing, anywhere i was laying, you could not be seen from lyndsay s viewpoint. so ones i sank below the surface and hit that bottom, you could not see me at all from lyndsay s viewpoint. and now the prosecutor was ready. in may 2011, one year after the first jury deadlocked, he went
waiting for their father to return from the police station. and they wondered, why was it taking so long? then the phone rang, and they had their answer. you know, it broken up words and he s crying and we re crying, and that was when he said, they think i hurt mom. i mean, he was very upset. but he didn t sound surprised when he said he was crying, he was crying. very upset. but by the time police investigators were questioning chris, remember, they had heard from lyndsay patterson. and at the station chris s version of events in the spa differed in one crucial detail from what lyndsay described seeing that first time she peered over the wall and into the halls 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
the wife getting into the jacuzzi, slimg, falling into the jacuzzi, hitting her head, going unconscious, and drowning. see this sharp corner sticking out into the spa? hitting her head on this would certainly have opened a gash and knocked christy out, said the attorney. she didn t see what was really happening during the times when she was not looking. that scream that made lyndsay patterson look over the wall, she was in a bathroom that faced the street. she wasn t in the backyard when she heard it. could have been anybody. and courtney who was inside her house near the spa didn t hear a thing. we don t think she s lying. she misinterpreted what she saw. anyway, lyndsay, to a certain degree, didn t know what she was seeing in her glimpses that morning. something was wrong. and yet you hadn t seen anything. no, but i knew something was wrong. i don t know if in my brain i
coffee. lyndsay patterson was on leave from her i.t. job in the navy visiting her mom who lives just over the backyard wall from the hall house. lyndsay was inside in the bathroom that faced away from the hall house and out onto the street when she heard a noise. it was a horrible scream. it was just something was wrong kind of scream. a woman s, she thought? she went outside to tell her mom. and i said, did you hear that scream? and she said, yeah, but i think it s just kids playing in the pool. kids, at 6:00 something in the morning? lyndsay walked over to the 6-foot brick wall between their yard and the halls . she stepped on the planter and looked over the wall. at that point i saw a man with his hand, one hand on top of a woman s head. and then one hand on her back. and she was face down in the water. like something was going on? yeah.