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You had no part in killing david? >> no, i did not. i had no knowledge. i have no part. and, you know, little lies here in there that might might keeps changing his story. i think hes just psychotic. i think is psychotic for the things that he has said. i was 21 back then. i was very, i dont think i could play much. you know? im not stupid. but im not that smart. you know? >> no, said barbara. it was all ex-husband michael wolfes doing. his guilt, she said, made sense of his strange behavior dur...

Michael wolfe told him he fabricated the entire story about barbara participating in the murder of david jackson. >> particular jailhouse snitch was well known, the da said. mostly for the false information he provided. still, after three years in jail, it was enough to get barber released and placed on house arrest, pending trial. and then? prosecutor bandell met michael wolfe to ask him about testifying against barbara. didnt go well. >> the blow came to me when he said what am i getting in re...

>> and sure enough, unlike, that was consistent with the investigation. >> along with that story came out sounded like a motive. david disappeared, remember, as he was preparing for a visit from his five year old son, john. >> they decided that david need to be gotten rid of, because they never wanted david to be in johnnys life. >> david was murdered in cold blood just to keep him out of his sons life? >> and boom. it click for me all of a sudden. i said, wow. thats over tell custody. thats why...

Investigation, you know, deep down in their guts are sure that she was at the center of it? did you also sink think so? >> when i think as a person and but i think as a prosecutor i have to keep them separate. and while i may have believed that barbara was a full participant in this, what i can prove is totally different. >> so, you made an offer? >> we made an offer. >> barbara britton was offered two more years of house arrest and eight years of probation. she would avoid trial, but she had to...

Told a cell mate of his that thats it, you know? >> pay the price? >> and i was -- yes. >> interesting, but true. wolfe hasnt commented. but keith seltzer, barbaras defense attorneys expressed stick suspected wolfe had a more practical motive. >> michael wolfe was offered a 15-year plea bargain. to take 15 years and testify against whoever is accomplices might be -- >> sure. >> lo and behold the week after the jury convicts them a first degree murder, there was an option at that point to maybe g...

That he gave to each of those ex-wives. >> the stories were not entirely consistent, said attorney seltzer. besides, he said, barbara was at home in arizona the night of the murder. how does he know that? >> a phone bill from her mothers home, placing calls to her home in arizona that night, where nobody else could have been there. >> whats a phone bill of that age doing lying around somewhere, where it can be grabbed for evidence by the defendant? >> the father was a meticulous record keeper. >...

But to set their trap, to lure david to the kill side at the motel, they needed beat. and that be, said wolfe, was barbara. barbara who did not require persuasion. quite the contrary, said mr. wolfe. >> barbara britton is in the middle. from what i was able to learn about david, he would have never gone to that hotel room to meet harry britton. he wouldve never gone to that hotel room to meet michael wolfe. there he agreed to come meet barbara. the one >> woman who wept tears of love for her lon...

No easy thing. >> we were just two young. it was difficult for him and it was difficult for me. >> so who is the first person to say youve got to get a divorce? >> my dad. >> how did david ticket? >> he was like, lets just find somebody. some lawyers, and see what we have to do. and that was it. >> the two divorced in 1985. david arranged we can visits with john. how are they together? >> oh, wonderful. >> johnny just clung to him. they love each other. >> and they all moved on. couple years lat...

Michael wolfe is where he should be, in prison. your father is where he should be, and you will join him one day because that is where you should be. in hell. >> davids brother, mark, was not at all sure the justice was served. >> if you lose on trial, thats gods will. you cant control that. but i think it should have gone to trial. i think society in two years when she comes out for house forest needs to worry. >> a picture of david. >> but his mother? >> there is justice. yes. and shes a felon...

Long gone. but what prosecutors did have was the verbal confession. the drunken story his ex-wife said he had told her. >> then, check me. another ex wife told police virtually the same story. >> he told me he shot him in the head. and he told me that he had a silencer on the gun. >> now she too was called to this stand. that was enough. the jury was out in less than an hour. the verdict was guilty. at the sentencing, life in prison. david jacksons family confronted michael wolfe. not just to co...