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>> i always loved david. >> -- or just maybe a black widow? >> barbara britton is in the middle. >> "buried clues." hello and welcome to "dateline extra." im craig melvin. the case sat cold for more than a decade, and then rookie detective donna velasquez got the file and turned up the heat. shed been given the basics. 24-year-old divorced dad david jackson had vanished without a trace. digging into davids past, she uncovered a twisted tale of love gone bad and a chilling family secret. but to l...

When a young man named david jackson failed to meet his brother, mark, at the airport. >> it was a gut feeling something was wrong. and i knew it. >> 15 years later, detective donna velasquez relived that puzzling time. davids ex-wife, barbara, by then remarried and living in arizona, as she told detective velazquez, got a call from davids worried mother. barbara said she wasnt worried, not then. >> i thought, okay, he was was with one of his girlfriends. and she was like, no, were doing a missi...

>> but now detective velasquez had a hard truth to tell. david jackson was dead. not missing. and the way he had been hidden made it perfectly clear he had been murdered all those years ago. most likely before his friends or family even noticed he was gone. which have put a final period on his mothers lingering hope for his return. and apparently an ex-wifes what ifs. were you seriously thinking, you know, maybe some day ill get back together with him? >> when its your first love, youre always t...

To reveal everything, including the accomplice he said led david straight into the ambush. here again is keith morrison. >> in november of 2007, the man who shot david jackson to death was found guilty of the crime and sent to prison for the rest of his life. but a couple of days after he was sentenced, wolfe sent out word that he was ready to tell the rest of the story. sure, he said, he was the trigger man and yes, his father-in-law was determined to get rid of david permanently. but to set th...

Meet mr. britton when mr. britton was ten minutes down the road? i mean, david is not a stupid child at 24. why would mr. britton want to see him in a motel? >> tell them what you know, they demanded. there would be no justice, they told wolfe, unless everyone involved was held accountable. outside the courtroom, davids brother encountered the states attorney and said -- >> hes going to tell you, and he said, hes not going to tell me anything. i saw it in his eyes, hell tell you. and then we got...

>> if michael wolfe had really not known anything beyond that point, it would get him off the hook and leave it all in the hands of harry britton. >> so michael was pinning the murder on no one but harry, who have safely dead and could tell no tales. but now detective velasquez believed she had enough evidence to bring michael wolfe back to florida to stand trial for the murder of david jackson. >> we did the arrest warrant and within a couple of days we were flying out to kettering, ohio, to ex...

As these may increase the risk of serious side effects. with the botox® savings program, most people with commercial insurance pay nothing out of pocket. talk to your doctor and visit botoxchronicmigraine.com to enroll. welcome back to "dateline extra." im craig melvin. detective donna velasquez was laser focused on finding david jacksons killer, working around the clock, the relentless investigator had tracked down a woman who had claimed davids

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 going to work and living off of coffee, and i thought, you know what, this is what its all about. >> it was november of 2007 when michael wolfe went on trial for murder. after so many years, any physical evidence that might have tied him to the crime was long gone. but what prosecutors did have was the...

While later, hes all spruced up, ready to go out, hes got a 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 th...

Killer had confessed to her in horrifying detail. the 15-year-old cold case was now red hot and there was about to be an astonishing new wrinkle. was davids murder a family affair? once again, heres keith morrison. >> david jackson was murdered the 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 an increasingly complicated web of stories and relationships. david jack...