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Verdict. john and melissa sutton took their seats in the front row. christopher sutton stood stone-faced as jurors filed in. thank you, you may be seated. were those tears from some members of the jury? ladies and gentlemen, i understand you have reached the verdict? judge stanford read the verdict. christopher sutton, we the jury, the 21st day of july, 2010, find the defendant, christopher patrick sutton, as to count one, guilty of first-degree murder as charged in the indictment. guilty. with that, christopher s head stuck back as he was struck. count three, first-degree felony murder. melissa wept. her father, their father, looked his jaw. sentencing would be immediate. john sutton was offered time to speak and years of stoic resolve crumbled. regardless of the result, ....
Full-time mom, but susan kept trying to get pregnant and had been suffering through years of failed fertility treatments and miscarriages. finally, adopted a sister for christopher, melissa. she was and always has been a little angel. absolutely. shild probably be upset with me saying this, but she was pretty close to perfect. it would seem to describe the family too. the children had been told they were adopted, and didn t seem to worry them at all. my mom and my dad are my mom and my dad. it wasn t these are my biological and these are my adopted. i had a great cheeildhood. there were advantages when your brother is seven years older. someone made fun of me in school one time. he came, and he gave the kid a ....
john, ever the atrney, wanted to know what the evidence was, had the reports read to him and was convinced. i think that i was somewhere in between being completely outraged and upset and somewhere where i knew that he had done it. but melissa, so grief stricken, wasn t focused on who did it so much as what she had lost. a lot of people chased the killer and i think i chased missing my mom. police are looking for 25-year-old christopher patrick sutton. and christopher was nowhere to be found. day after day as police looked for him, john sutton had time to think, remember. one event he had perhaps suppressed, it happened nine years earlier when christopher was 16. it was the deciding factor in sending him off to samoa. susan was going through christopher s room and found a ....
People s property. they sent him off to boarding schools then, but he didn t last at any of them. failed or got kicked out. of course, the whole family tried, said is had sister, melissa. the trouble wasn t a lack of love. not at all. was it your sense that christopher was loved? oh, no doubt about it. but neither love nor money could prevent christopher from always ending back in the same place. trouble. i know that he dealt drugs and at one point he was arrested for it when i was younger and, you know, that was something that my father being a lawyer and as well as a parent, you know, what do with he do? finally, in 18995 when christopher was 16, when counsellors and boarding schools and tough love had all been tried and found wanting, john and susan looked away. far, far away to find some help. on the pacific island of western ....
they hung around a lot doing drugs, playing video games, whatever. in the months after the record phone records showed a spike in the call between the two, 300 calls between 3 months. that s an awful lot of drugs to be dealing if you had 300 some odd phone calls. could they have been talking murder? speculation, of course, but then after the murder when cobb was arrested on the gun charge, prosecutors understood it was christopher who bonded him out, drove him to court, hardly the sort of thing a drug dealer would do for a mere customer. going to court for him, bonding him out, there was more to this friendship. john and melissa sutton knew nothing what they were discovering. garrett cobb was still coming around. solid evidence or no, detectives decided it was time to act. ....