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
i can. thinking you unfairly convicting their father. absolutely. it weighs on me. but at the same time, i know who i am dealing with when it comes to chris hall. in fact, he is the one that s stolen their mother from it had been a peculiar fact of this case that the victims and defendants families stood solidly together against the prosecution. but what nunn knew was the truth was more complicated. after the verdict at chris hall s sentencing, a letter was introduced from one of chris hall s brother, billy carlton, who until now had said not one public word about the case. we would like to ask his honor for the maximum sentence, wrote billy. the pain that my family has suffered through this tragedy is i didn t want to hurt the i had to say what was on my mind. there was a deep divide in the family, said billy. some of the relatives believed chris was innocent but he and he said others including cristi s uncle
they were ready. chris hall and his daughters rushed to court. and in the end it was very quick. guilty of first degree murder. their father would not be coming home. probably ever. he was being cuffed. and potentially put away for life. and yeah, it hurts, and we are angry about that. you can still hear those daughters. i can. thinking you unfairly convicting their father. absolutely. it weighs on me. but at the same time, i know who i am dealing with when it comes to chris hall. in fact, he is the one that s stolen their mother from them. it had been a peculiar fact of this case that the victims and defendants families stood solidly together against the prosecution. but what nunn knew was the truth was more complicated.
rushed to court. and in the end it was very quick. guilty of first degree murder. their father would not be coming home. probably ever. he was being cuffed. and potentially put away for life. and yeah, it hurts, and we are angry about that. you can still hear those daughters. i can. thinking you unfairly convicting their father. absolutely. it weighs on me. but at the same time, i know who i am dealing with when it comes to chris hall. in fact, he is the one that s stolen their mother from them. it had been a peculiar fact of this case that the victims and defendants families stood solidly together against the prosecution. but what nunn knew was the truth was more complicated. after the verdict at chris hall s sentencing, a letter was
solidly together against the prosecution. but what nunn knew was the truth was more complicated. after the verdict at chris hall s sentencing, a letter was introduced from one of chris hall s brother, billy carlton, who until now had said not one public word about the case. we would like to ask his honor for the maximum sentence, wrote billy. the pain that my family has suffered through this tragedy is unforgivable. i didn t want to hurt the girls. i had to say what was on my mind. there was a deep divide in the family, said billy. some of the relatives believed chris was innocent but he and he said others including cristi s uncle steve mundy urged on the prosecutor silently. half the family was convinced he was innocent and half was convinced he wasn t. that s hard to do when you have a big family and you all have to be together once in a while. when it involves a member as loved as cristi was. exactly.