a doughy christopher sutton by the time his trial finally began. it was july 2010, a son charged with hiring a hit man who murdered his mother, blinded his father, and here he sat apparently confident, highly prepared ignoring most of the time the surviving members of his family a scant few feet away. >> you know, we locked eyes but i have nothing to say to him. >> melissa sat with her father, their father, front row seat. prosecutor karen kagan told the jury a horror story, the state's version of what happened the night of the murder. >> the man for whom the gunman had signed on to commit a double murder, a man who was intimately familiar with john and susan sutton. that man, their son, christopher sutton. >> then graphic evidence. a crime scene soaked in blood