room. who was the room who arranged to have you shoot john and susan sutton? christopher. how many money were you expected to get in. upwards of 100,000. up until this moment john sutton had been a spectator, his thoughts and feelings his own. he was a victim, too. staying out of it wasn t an option for him hand now came the moment that he both dreaded and demanded. he testified against his own son, first about the night his world went dark. the only thing i saw was for an instant a snap. i didn t even seat gun, but in an instant, bam, and then the next thing you knew i woke up and inwas on the floor. john sutton answered the questions as if the defendant sitting before him was a man he had never met, as if this was not the boy he had raised from birth. neither father nor son displayed the slightest emotion.