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
a sudden slip, a fatal fall you losing your mother, watching her go right someone else was watching her too, a curious neighbor. it was scary. the look on his face was almost indescribable. what had she seen? was this drowning really an accident? she s got a huge gash on her head. consistent with just falling down. a husband and father is suddenly under suspicion. who is crying, were crying. he said, they got three daughters stand by their dad, and one prosecutor stands firm. he s holding his wife of almost three decades under the water and justice for christie hall. was it murder? hello, a young [inaudible] yard in 1 million and the moment it s unsettling. what she saw and what she did would set in motion a chain of events that would divide a family and a jury. here is keith we know the truth. and we know everything that happened. how do we know what we know? emotionally unsatisfying not to have that answer. so it is. even if w
A woman peers into a neighbors yard and sees something for a few mysterious seconds a man, a woman and a moment thats unsettling. What she saw and what she. What had she seen . Was this drowning really an accident . Shes 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. Hes crying and were crying. He said, they think i hurt mom. Three daughters stand by their dad. And one prosecutor stands firm. Hes 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 extra. Im craig melvin. In this hour, a story that calls to mind the master of suspense. A plot straight out of an Alfred Hitchcock film. A young woman peers into her neighbors yard and sees something for a few seconds. A man, a woman, and a moment that was unsettling. Was it some kind of accident . A crime . Maybe even a murder . What she saw and what she d
see this sharp corner sticking out into the spa? hitting your head on this would certainly have opened a gash and knocked cristi out, said the attorney. she didn t see what was really happening during the times when she was not looking. that scream that made lindsay patterson look over the wall? lindsay, they pointed out, was in a bathroom that faced the street. she wasn t in the backyard when she said she heard it. could have been anybody. and courtney, near the spa, inside her own house, didn t hear a thing. we don t think she was lying. we think she misinterpreted what she saw. lindsay concedes she didn t know what she was seeing in those glimpses that morning. something was wrong. yet you hadn t really seen no. but i knew something was i don t know if in my brain i was putting things together. but from between the scream, the position that he was
it was a lie they said. it was hard to hear someone basically say, we know your parents better than we do. and we know our father is a sociopath. and we know and we didn t see it. and that we re blind to it and he knows that there was hidden you re basically tell us violent in our parent s marriage that we did not know our whole lives. and we just didn t see it. you re there s no proof of that. basically telling us that we didn t know our whole lives we re to top it off, there s no proof of that. chris paul had chris hall had never been violent, argue the defense, had no motive, no reason to suddenly turn never been on his wife. it had to be a freak so, said the defense, lindsay patterson didn t really know what violent, argued the defense. and there was no reason to deter and on his wife. it had to be a freak accident. so, said the defense. lindsay patterson did not really know what she saw. in fact, if she really witnessed chris hall drowning his wife, why then didn t she c