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
welcome back. chris hall s first trial ended in a deadlocked jury. but with new evidence presented by both sides first trial ended in a deadlocked jury. but with new evidence presented by both sides during his retrial, the jury was able to reach a verdict. now, with the conclusion to our story, here is keith morrison. may, 2011. for the second time, 12 men and women of riverside county, california, filed out of the courtroom, a second jury, to make a life decision about chris did he murder his wife? which of the medical examiners should they believe? whose account of the defendant s character and, perhaps most important, what did lindsay patterson see when she peeked three times into the halls back
lindsay. so she called 9-1-1. 9-1-1, state your emergency. i heard a woman screaming. so now, hours an hours later, the detectives confronted chris with lindsey story. why, they asked, didn t her story matches? so am i supposed to believe the witnesses lying? i m not going to say she s lying, she sounds like a truthful person or whatever. but i do not know. i cannot explain what she is saying that she saw. so now, that question that we posed as we began, did lindsay patterson really know what she saw? dateline returns after the break! r th break! hey, you should try new robitussin honey medi-soothers for long-lasting cough and sore throat relief. try new robitussin lozenges with real medicine
could not in his opinion have been the result of a single accidental and the m.e. argued the particular type of bruising on cristi s face and body was the hallmark of a the totality of injuries were not consistent with somebody slipping and falling and then a rescue attempt. and there was a clump of hair in the bottom of the spa, still entwine with a broken plastic hair that, said the prosecutor, could have only come from a violent when you lose that amount of hair, it s not explained by any kind of fall. there were minor hiccups in the lindsay patterson, for example, was a little inconsistent about how long she looked over the backyard wall that first time she saw something going on. was it just a few seconds? or as long as a minute? but either way, said