Family Secrets
48 Hours
CBS News
4.1 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In 2004, successful Florida lawyer, John Sutton, and his wife, Susan, were gunned down in their home. Susan died and John sustained a serious head injury. Initially, suspects included John's law partner, who was having a secret affair with Susan, and other individuals who had issued death threats against John, but they all had alibis. “48 Hours" Correspondent Troy Roberts reports. This classic "48 Hours" episode last aired on 7/20/2013. Watch all-new episodes of “48 Hours” on Saturdays, and stream on demand on Paramount+.
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| 0:00.0 | On Sunday, August 22nd, 2004, two days after my wife, Susan Sutton's birthday, we were having a family get-together, our son, Christopher, and his girlfriend, |
| 0:25.0 | Juliet, my law partner, Teddy Montoto. We had a birthday cake. John and Susan lived in a very |
| 0:34.3 | fancy neighborhood, Carl Gables. John was a local attorney. |
| 0:38.3 | The firm had had a very successful week. |
| 0:41.3 | The firm got a settlement over a million dollars. |
| 0:44.3 | After dinner was over, we were watching the Olympics in swimming and diving. |
| 0:51.3 | Everything was fine that evening. |
| 0:53.3 | Everybody was relaxed. |
| 0:56.0 | John and Susan's son Christopher |
| 0:57.8 | and his girlfriend, Julia Driscoll, |
| 0:59.5 | had plans to go to the movies, so they left. |
| 1:01.5 | Shortly thereafter, my law partner, Teddy Montoto, left. |
| 1:06.0 | Approximately 10 o'clock, I decided to go in to bed. |
| 1:13.6 | Susan retired to one bedroom, John to the other. |
| 1:16.6 | Susan oftentimes slept in the second room because her husband John snored. |
| 1:22.6 | Settling into the evening, unaware that at that time, about four blocks away, |
| 1:33.3 | there was a man who had driven up, |
| 1:36.3 | Glock 9mm, semi-automatic pistol on his waistband, |
| 1:40.3 | with one intention. |
| 1:42.3 | He was there on a mission, |
| 1:45.6 | a mission to murder John and Susan. |
| 1:50.2 | Next thing you know, I saw someone come in. |
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