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Months before the murder. stephen kamp was a motor with the new palm times and read his letter. all he would admit to was meeting harry at a park, a place where davids bones would later come out of the ground. >> he said, he pointed over to that plot of land and said, if you needed to bury a body, that would be a good place to do it. and he concluded this letter with, and i dont know if he had listened or not. >> apparently he did. >> if michael wolfe had really not known anything beyond that po...

Years. davids bones had been recovered from a construction site just a year after he vanished. but how? and why did his body end up there? turns out that location had significance to someone, a woman, who was about to make some alarming claims about the young dad. once again, heres keith morrison. >> it was good detective work that identified david jacksons earthly remains. what was left of them, but pure chance that the partial skeleton was found at all, as davids brother, mark, found out. >> t...

What we consider a jail house snitch. and he came forward and stated that michael wolf told him he had fabricated the entire story about barbara participating in the murder of david jackson. >> a particular jail house snitch whos well-known, the da, said mostly for the false information he provided. still, after three years in jail it was enough to get barbara besides, barbara was at home in arizona the night of the murder. how does he know that? >> a phone bill from her mothers home placing cal...

Smile on his face, hes combing his hair, hes putting on his cologne and david jackson left the apartment at that point. that was the last that any of his friends saw him at that point. >> what really happened in the motel? wolfe said he hid in the bathroom when david arrived. >> barbara answered and he was glad to see her. he said, they walked in, sat down on the edge of the bed, and barbara had a stun gun. and barbara hit david with the stun gun. >> but the stun gun malfunctioned. so wolfe step...

Typing and typing and it pops up about a hundred matches. >> but she was determined. she finally whittled it down to a possible three. >> one of them really stands out for me. it says, white male, and it says, over 6 foot. davids a tall guy and hes a white male. possibly. >> those particular bones, just a few, a partial skeleton, turned up during construction of a walmart parking lot not far from the place where david lived. surfaced just a year after david died, had been gathering dust in stora...

This one more time. and she comes back and she goes, honey, i was wrong the first time, she says, this person is anywhere between 59" and 61". i said, oh, my gosh, i think ive hit paydirt. >> she dot dna from davids mother, waited for a lab to compare the samples. and ten days later, detective velasquez called the testing facility. >> she comes to the phone and she says, i hope youre sitting down. and i said, why? youve got a 100% match. oh, my gosh?! i said, what? because im not believing that ...

But she was a felon now. >> you have a title over your head. its life changing. its very life changing. >> do you swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth? >> yes, i do. >> detective velasquez joined barbara at the sentencing hearing. >> judge, for the record, david jacksons mother would like to speak. >> of course. >> davids mother read an impact statement. >> barbara, ive cried endlessly for 24 years. ive wanted to die myself to be with david. >> her gaze fixed...

Been haunted by the disappearance of her son, david. now, detective donna velasquez was reaching deep into the past for clues. there she found the tale of two love-struck teenagers who married, had a baby, and divorced in quick secession. common sense and an exhaustive internet search were about to lead the investigator to a stunning discovery. here again is keith morrison. >> it was june 25th, 1988, ft. lauderdale, the day the mystery began. when a young man named david jackson failed to meet h...

Had been married seven times. number six, a woman named nancy graham, lived in alabama. velasquez called her. >> i told her, im investigating the disappearance to have david jackson. and she said to me, how much evidence do you have against him? and i said, i cant discuss the evidence with you, but i can tell you that its enough for me to put him away right now. i was just totally bluffing. i had really, nothing. im just throwing it out there, you know, fishing that long line and if something bi...

To extradite michael wolfe back to florida. >> how did he react? >> he said some pretty harsh words. its not very ladylike if i said it, though. >> you can say it. >> he said, im [ bleep ]. >> this was it. velasquez had her momentum. finally, after 15 years, she had made sure that someone was going to be held accountable for the death of david jackson. >> it was the culmination of 16 months of such a long, grueling, up and down is tiresome investigation, of nights of not sleeping, of days of goi...