bathroom with his gun. he said so i had the gun wrapped in a towel and he showed me like this i fired one shot and about that time harry britton came into the room and said he s not dead yet. he s still breathing. shoot him again. so he said i shot him again and that shot killed him and they put david s body in the back of predug the grave so all they had to do was lay his body in there and cover him up. but that wasn t the end of wolf s tale. a year after the murder he said he got a call from harry britton. he learned they were going to build a new walmart where the bones were buried. where the bones were. and harry told him you have to come back up to here and move the bones, almost as an order. wolf flew back to florida. michael says he went out in the middle of the night and
i know how he was killed and what they did with him. how did she know? according to her, michael drank a lot. every night he would almost down a whole bottle of scotch and i guess he just needed to talk. and the story wolf told according to the ex implicated more than just himself. here s what happened as nancy heard it. wolf and harry britton rented a motel room on that long ago july night. invited david to a meeting there. when he gets at the hotel. they have a very small conversation and michael shot david in the head. he said he had to get so drunk to do it. the first shot didn t kill him. he had to shoot him again. afterwards as nancy relayed the story. they took his car to the airport and left it there and then he took him there was an
in detail but there s one staggering new wrinkle. was david jackson s murder a family affair? once again here s buried secrets. david jackson was murdered in 1988 in florida. that much detective donna velasquez could say for certain. but the rest, after more than a year of phone calls and late nights, all velasquez had come up with is a web of stories and relationships. david jackson was married to barbara briton. her father harry disliked david. she went on to become the fifth wife of a man named michael wolf. they divorced and he later married two more times. now, finally, one of wolfs ex-wives was telling police she knew everything about what happened to david. can you tell me again.
i don t. oh, my god, every time i get out of the morning, one says guilty, the other says felon. as for the detective who so doggedly pursued the case who thinks a murderer got away at first i was disappointed. i had to make peace with it. when i put my head down on the pillow at night, at the end of the day, she s a felon. mentally, when you re in prison here, do you ever escape that? as for barbara, she spent the remainder of her house arrest at her father s home. old vw, the one that allegedly carried david s body still parked outside. that s all for this edition of dateline. i m craig melvin. thank you for watching. good morning. i m garrett haake at msnbc world headquarters in new york.
sell out barbara anyway he could to get a reduced sentence. of course, there was the uncomfortable fact of the two unprompted confessions he had made to his ex wives, confessions in which he portrayed barbara as a sort of black widow intent of having david killed. well, there are two versions that he gave to each of those ex wives. the stories were not entirely consistent says attorney celtser. besides, barbara was at home in arizona the night of the murder. how does he know that? a phone bill from her mother s home placing calls to her home in arizona that night when nobody else could have been there. what s a phone bill of that age doing lying around where it can be grabbed for evidence by defendant? the father was a meticulous record keeper. what s to say it wasn t an answering service that picked it up. michael wolfe testified in their first deposition they had no answering machine. could have been somebody else in the house.