viewpoint. now the prosecution was ready. in may 2011, one year after the first jury deadlocked, burke strunsky went back to court armed with his new evidence for a brand new panel of hall s peers. jurors heard medical experts testify about the injuries to christi s head and once again heard lindsay s 911 call. i saw him put her under water. cristi s co-workers testified for the prosecution. and jerry winkle traveled from idaho to tell jurors what he thought of chris hall. i was ashamed to admit that he was once a police officer. but, if the prosecution had upped its game in the year between the two trials, so had the defense. that s when well-known attorney steve harmon and paul grech entered the scene, and they came out swinging. that story about cristi s affair, for example? there s a shadow hanging over all of this stuff. very human sort of shadow, which is that she was having a little affair. right? had a boyfriend. yes. if the husband knew about it.
have a client in a murder case out on bail, but he was a special man and this was a special situation. reporter: these are attorneys who would eventually defend him, though at first they d only heard about the case. steve harmon and paul grech. you said two things, special man, special situation. i think both of us can say this is a man that we like and that we know and we don t feel he could have done anything like this. reporter: so chris hall and his daughters prepared for a trial which they hoped would make clear to everybody, the police, the neighbor, the world, that chris would not, could not, did not harm the love of his life. there was never in 30 years of marriage one moment of violence. there was no motive for this man to kill his wife. reporter: harmon and grech had a look at neighbor lindsay patterson s eyewitness account and suggested it was really not conclusive at all.
first jury deadlocked, burke strunsky went back to court armed with his new evidence for a brand new panel of hall s peers. jurors heard medical experts testify about the injuries to christi s head and once again heard lindsay s 911 call. i saw him put her under water. cristi s co-workers testified for the prosecution. and jerry winkle traveled from idaho to tell jurors what he thought of chris hall. i was ashamed to admit that he was once a police officer. but, if the prosecution had upped its game in the year between the two trials, so had the defense. that s when well-known attorney steve harmon and paul grech entered the scene, and they came out swinging. that story about cristi s affair, for example? there s a shadow hanging over all of this stuff. very human sort of shadow, which is that she was having a little
meet his $1 million bail. and then he went back to what was to be his retirement retreat to prepare with the help of his daughters for a murder trial. that s very surprising to have a client in a murder case out on bail, but he was a special man and this was a special situation. reporter: these are attorneys who would eventually defend him, though at first they d only heard about the case. steve harmon and paul grech. you said two things, special man, special situation. i think both of us can say this is a man that we like and that we know and we don t feel he could have done anything like this. reporter: so chris hall and his daughters prepared for a trial which they hoped would make clear to everybody, the police, the neighbor, the world, that chris would not, could not, did not harm the love of his life. there was never in 30 years of marriage one moment of violence. there was no motive for this man to kill his wife. reporter: harmon and grech had a look at neighbor li
playing professional volleyball in europe. and all of them have heard the story of how their parents met. it was 1978. skris at this had gone to see a relative at the air force base and quite by chance while she was there encountered a security guard who to her at least looked just like elvis. it was blair christopher hall. chris to his friends. apparently she was a little flirty at the gate. in short order, chris and christie got married. she was 17, he 206789 and as the girls grew up, they said they never doubted for a single moment, the powerful bond of love. their parents with them and with each other. we were probably closer to our parents than most children. they re the parents that i hope to one day be. for many years chris was a police officer until he was shot in the line of duty. then he went offer to become police chief in idaho. then in 2005 anticipating an empty nest and eventual retirement the halls bought this place, which they loved for its back yard p