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,
work. my son charged with first degree murder. he listened to the awful story of the way john losses eyesight. they explained him the amazing thing they were doing here. by growing corneas in a petri dish. of course, working on optic nerve regeneration. john took it all in. amazed. and for the first time since the shooting he felt his search of positive excitement. and a little germaphobic. had launched itself in its stubborn mind. and you are thinking i said i am in the right spot. he talked, the leading researchers. have you done any studies with the severed optic nerves? he pepper them with questions like he was cross-examined witnesses. they offered sutton a glimmer we will be able to
watched his careful note taking, his whispered asides whose attorney. he felt that he was wrongfully prosecuted. the only way we can type lot of things and actually prove things, disprove thinks, let s buy him testifying. how would he convey his innocence? first, by describing his hospital vigil, a concern sign on the night of the shooting. did he acknowledge? he could squeeze your hand but you can speak. how did you feel when you saw your father at the trauma center? shocked, hurt, worried, scared. not that chris first claimed to be a perfect son. in fact, he told the jury he was a drug dealer. garrett koch was one of his best customers but had good reason to turn on him. why? because years earlier, christopher said, he turned police informant to give drug
bloodstained hands that she dropped when the gun opened fire. who was she talking to? that person heard something? detectives got their answer almost right away. john sutton s law partner teddy montoto had shown up at the house even before the first reports of the shooting hit the news that night. he was also armed. he was talking to susan sutton on the telephone when he heard a loud bang, or what he said maybe gunshots, he didn t know. that s what he told police? depending on the amount of truth in his statement, he could be a suspect? absolutely. but that had to be impossible. teddy and susan worked together! they talked often and frequently late at night. it is my mom s best friend. i call him my godfather, pretty much. like a relative. but police were suspicious. why had montoto arrived so quickly after the shooting? why was he armed with a handgun? a few questions, and perhaps more important, some testing to do. we interviewed him extensively.
christopher? no real evidence to show that he would do a thing. there were a lot of pieces of the puzzle that we were putting together. we couldn t prove anything. like for example this big piece of evidence, right here. what s in evan s name might an island in the far pacific have to do with the shooting of john and susan sutton? coming up. double paradise, for a young christopher and his family. he was kidnapped in the middle of the night and he was 17 years old. we knew that christopher son complained that he had been hanging tied, beaten. when dateline continues. ere is trying to look cool, things are about to heat up. uh-oh. darn it, kyle! and if you don t have the right home insurance coverage, you could end up paying for this yourself. sorry mr. sanchez! get allstate, and be better protected from mayhem, like me. that s a hard no. martial arts is my passion. i work out whenever i can.