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What times, and why she had gone there. >> reporter: as for cheryl, she told detectives shed do anything to find out what happened to her dad in those 15 minutes she was away from the house. >> her actions were very, very consistent with somebody who understands, the police are looking at me right now, i know i didnt do anything, im going to do everything i can and give full disclosure. >> the day after the jack jessee murder, a guy walked into a bar, sat down on the barstool, and told the barte...

She was the one who found him. >> reporter: back at the station, wyatt interviewed all of jacks relatives, including cheryl, and jacks wife sandra, who hadnt been missing at all, just out on a shopping trip. >> mrs. jessee came to the station with us voluntarily, told us she would cooperate, wanted to help us solve the murder of her husband. >> reporter: she told him about life with jack, married 14 years, blended family, four kids between them. jack was a patriarch in the jessee clan, she said,...

"shakespeare in love" won the oscar. monica lewinsky was freshly famous. it was a sweltering august night, hottest of the year, when cheryl deedham got a strange call from her dad, jack jessee. >> i was getting ready for bed and my phone rings and its my dad on the phone. >> what time was this? >> 9:20. >> reporter: he was worried about his wife sandra. she was missing. >> what did he think had happened? >> he thought she may have got in an accident or something. >> reporter: shed run to this ne...

>> reporter: he was worried about his wife sandra. she was missing. >> he thought she may have got in an accident or something. >> reporter: shed run to this nearby mall on a quick errand, said cheryls dad, but was gone so long. would cheryl please find her, asked her dad. >> went through there, the luckys, the burger king where she was supposed to be, walmart, back 15 minutes later. >> reporter: when she went back into her dads house she found -- >> one of the worst sights ive ever seen in my l...

>> happy new year! >> reporter: even got together for a monthly game of 10-pins. what these grainy home videos dont show is what is yet to come. which is murder, conspiracy. one branch of the family against the other. a game so twisted, mice so clever that crafting a trap to catch the plotters just might be impossible. to begin with, it was 1998. "shakespeare in love" won the oscar. monica lewinsky was freshly famous. it was a sweltering august night, hottest of the year, when cheryl deedham got...

Surgery. sandra told the detectives shed been running a bit of a mercy mission for jack and dawdled too long at the mall. >> five minutes one direction, five minutes in traffic, maybe i was on the road almost 15 minutes -- >> she was very, very specific about where she had gone, at what times, and why she had gone there. >> reporter: as for cheryl, she told detectives shed do anything to find out what happened to her dad in those 15 minutes she was away from the house. >> her actions were very, ...

Person who doted on his children, doted on his stepchildren, doted on his grandchildren. >> reporter: jack was ill. housebound after colon cancer surgery. sandra told the detectives shed been running a bit of a mercy mission for jack and dawdled too long at the mall. >> five minutes one direction, five minutes in traffic, maybe i was on the road almost 15 minutes -- >> she was very, very specific about where she had gone, at what times, and why she had gone there. >> reporter: as for cheryl, she...

Clever that crafting a trap to catch the plotters just might be impossible. to begin with, it was 1998. "shakespeare in love" won the oscar. monica lewinsky was freshly famous. it was a sweltering august night, hottest of the year, when cheryl deedham got a strange call from her dad, jack jessee. >> i was getting ready for bed and my phone rings and its my dad on the phone. >> what time was this? >> 9:20. >> reporter: he was worried about his wife sandra. she was missing. >> he thought she may h...

Long at the mall. >> five minutes one direction, five minutes in traffic, maybe i was on the road almost 15 minutes -- >> she was very, very specific about where she had gone, at what times, and why she had gone there. >> reporter: as for cheryl, she told detectives shed do anything to find out what happened to her dad in those 15 minutes she was away from the house. >> her actions were very, very consistent with somebody who understands, the police are looking at me right now, i know i didnt do...

To begin with, it was 1998. "shakespeare in love" won the oscar. monica lewinsky was freshly famous. it was a sweltering august night, hottest of the year, when cheryl deedham got a strange call from her dad, jack jessee. >> i was getting ready for bed and my phone rings and its my dad on the phone. >> what time was this? >> 9:20. >> reporter: he was worried about his wife sandra. she was missing. >> he thought she may have got in an accident or something. >> reporter: shed run to this nearby ma...