ju . happy to help, he said. whatever gets him back home to comfort his daughter as quickly as possible. chris told investigators what happened and how courtney slept and he and christie were in the spa bathing. s she got out and went in and went in to the bathroom and got more coffee. she came back down. as christie return to the spa, they passed each other on the patio. he went into the house and stop by courtney s room to make sure she s awake and went back outside and sawing his wife faced down on the spa. he called courtney and began a frantic effort to revive her. from what? a fall? must have been.
s lyndsey was sure she saw physical contact. he was given the opportunity explaining any physical contact that could explain what lyndsey patterson saw. were they washing each other or a sex act or was there anything that she could have miss interpreted and at the end of the day, you are not just stuck with the fact that lyndsey patterson made a mistake. you have to believe that lyndsey patter southern hallucinated everything that she saw? what made lyndsey story more convincing said the prosecutor was she told before finding out what happened to christie. she dialled 911 a full minute and a half before any one in the hall did. here is what the jury heard her say in the call. she was still on the phone with 911 when chris came outside and found his wife s body
francisco s da s office, senior da of riverside. that takes skills and persuasive power. the murder case against the former police chief and family man, chris hall. mr. hall on the surface of what looks like a loving family man and a good father. he s somebody that had the support of his family. so he did. no, when he heard about chris hall s grief and the whaling that went on after this so-called accident. what caused his mind is an act. it is a wonderful performance by the defendant acting like a good husband. when you look at his action, how little he did to help his wife? who tried harder to save christie? not chris, said the prosecutor. she called 911 and she helped
jacuzzi. investigators were getting a good look at christie s body of wounds of struggles and more than one nasty blow on the head. police had to choose which version, chris hall or lyndsey s patterson of the truth story. tom doug is the senior investigator of the da. i think they felt that this was not an accidental drowning. it was suspicious. before the night was over. chris hall was arrested and charged with the murder of his wife, the girls could stop waiting. he was not coming home. it was a tragedy losing our mother that day and this was a tragedy on top of our tragedy now. knowing our parents, the fondest thing. christie was the love of their father s life after all. the center of everything for
needed to explain what patterson saw or did not see? we were not able to explain to the jury why she did not see christie at that point. i think that allowed the defense making the argument that christie hall was inside. the prosecution hired a water expert to do a recreation at the hall s spa. andrea ferris had been insisting and drowning investigations for the last 20 years. she got in the spa from the spot where lyndsey was watching. from the center of the pool and words where lyndsey was standing. anywhere i was laying, you could not see from lyndsey s point. you could not see me at all from lyndsey s viewpoint. now the prosecutor was ready. may 2011, one hereafter the first jury deadlock.