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little intricate pieces of him you wouldn t have known it was him. reporter: you faced the shocking prospect of becoming an orphan. i don t think that ever crossed my mind. he was still alive. reporter: melissa wondered why her parents? who could have done this? gators describing investigators describing it as a hit. reporter: did you have any idea? teddy told me what happened. i didn t know who, i thought it was some sort of break in. was my first instinct. that s what i thought for a long time until we started talking about my dad s clients. reporter: the homicide detectives were also thinking about sutton s clients and those he sued on their behalf. at this point, john sutton couldn t provide any information. he was clinging to life in a drug induced coma.
of break-in was my first instinct. that s what i thought for a long time until we started talking about my dad s clients. homicide detectives larry and art were also thinking about sutton s clients, those he sued on their behalf. at this point john sutton couldn t provide any information. he was clinging to life in a drug-induced coma. stlie went several times to talk to john sutton. he was on pain medication. he was intube ated. we re looking at maybe an incident in his law firm where he had people angry at him. civil attorneys take a lot of money from people, and he they make people mad. find out if any of these people have reason for revenge on john sutton. john sutton ran his law firm like he ran most things in life. efficient and hard-driving. in fact, detectives heard about one woman who lost a $97,000 lawsuit and was so mad she threatened to shoot up john s
when i heard his date during the trial, i remembered the joy of bringing my son home just like mr. sutton had. so at this time, as to count one, mr. sutton, the court poses a sentence of life in prison, without the possibility of parole. reporter: that was that. barring a successful appeal. christopher sutton will die in prison. a result he found so shocking he decided he needed to explain that they got it so very wrong. reporter: the verdict did seem to be a big surprise. yeah, i definitely wasn t expecting to be found guilty. i was shocked, you know, to know you didn t do something, yet to have people feel you did, you know. reporter: the words fairly gushed from his mouth as if it wasn t time to say everything that needed to be said. a lot of this comes down to there is me and there is garrett and then everybody else is talking about what i did years before or or maybe after
reporter: the homicide detectives were also thinking about sutton s clients and those he sued on their behalf. at this point, john sutton couldn t provide any information. he was clinging to life in a drug induced coma. i went several times to try to talk to john sutton. he was on pain medication. he was intubated. we are looking at maybe, incidents in his law firm, he may have had made people angry. reporter: civil attorneys take a lot of money from people and make people mad. i said find out if any of these people had reason for revenge. reporter: john sutton ran his law firm like most things in life. efficient and hard driving. in fact, detectives heard about one woman who lost a $97,000 lawsuit and was so mad she threat tuned shoot up john s firm. and the very night of the murder, the neighbor heard a