the gold coast. the sun, the sea, and this million dollar home, a mystery. he was talking on the telephone when he heard a loud bang. a woman, murdered. her husband went blind. are you bleeding? do you see any blood? i m bleeding all over, yes. okay. i can t see. but who? everyone is somewhat of a suspect. and why? what brings someone to make a decision they are going to do this. was it love? what we learned was that she was having an affair with the sun. was that money? nobody knows what happened except for him and garrett. what was the truth, hidden here on this tropical paradise? it was an assassination, a hit, no question. it was august, hot in coral gables. the air was short sticking thick as night fell. the small debris pushed the palms. and the artificial pool of attorney john sutton house was a party already known early. it was susan sutton s birthday attending their son, his girlfriend, and john s law partner. melissa,
who else is in the house with you? my wife, susan. and where is she? i don t know. somehow, he made it out the front door on his own. he was met by a paramedic. the holes in his head, in his face. i mean, i couldn t believe how he made it out of the house, walking to us. they stabilized sutton, rushed him off in an ambulance. an hour north of sutton s home homicide larry belyeu was getting home after a long shift. i was pulling into my driveway when i got the phone call. he was injured but he called 9-1-1 and made his way to the door and opens the door. they didn t want to go on until he came out? they wanted to know whether the persons involved were inside. they backed off until the swat team arrived and made entry into the house. not knowing if a gunman was still in the house, swat teams cleared the house room by room, binding entering the bedroom where susan sutton had been on the phone. when they went into the room where mr. sutton was they didn t see anybod
at the front row seat. the prosecutor told the jury a horror story. the states version of what happened during 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 was their son, christopher sutton. then graphic as vince. a crime scene soaked in blood and littered with bullet casings. medical examiner place nickel to show where susan was shot six times christopher to the breath and recoiled. but how the state prove that christopher was behind it all? raise your right hand to administer the oath. here s how it started. this man once worked with christopher. was an occasional pop customer to. but was shocked, he said, when christopher asked them certain questions. what did the defendant ask you? he asked me if i knew of any hitmen that would kill his
even 30 years i want you to think about what you have planned it what you did that night. you can be assured that my blindness, every minute every day i will not forget you. with that, the murder trial of christopher sutton had begun. florida law again now prosecutors could use the sworn testimony in courts of both the girlfriend and the hitmen. even with that, the case was what prosecutors knew all too well, rather weak. this was a circumstantial case, extremely circumstantial. really based on motive. sutton wanted the law to convicted his son of murder, but was christopher actually guilty? coming up, in court, the killer returns to the scene of the crime. what did you do at the end of the hallway? i proceeded to shoot. who did you shoot at first? john.
radio. we can t provide any info, but does look like he has a gunshot wounds to the head. i don t know if it was defensive wounds. he had wounds to his hands, which would make it clear that was defense type wounds that somebody else must of shot because he put his hands up. obviously first blue, this is not this is not murder suicide. who or why would anyone want to harm john or susan sutton? the sutton s lived exemplary lives, had it all. a beautiful house with a 31 foot boat out back. an exclusive coral gables, the upscale enclave south of miami. his law practice, susan worked his office manager, it was booming. that, week he received a check for 1 million dollars for a case he d settled. so, was robbery the motive? and if so, how did the killer get into the house? officers tsai curtain blowing in the wind the race lighting glass door in the rear of the house near the pool. the door last showed signs it had been broken long before that night. the killer had gone and