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I said, thats pretty serious. and she says, yeah. >> interesting. >> very. >> to detective velasquez, that sounded like a made-up story, almost as if she was trying to divert suspicion away from someone. an ex-wife would qualify, of course, as a person of interest in this kind of case, but as velasquez and we learned, barbara had an alibi. she wasnt anywhere near florida, she said, when david disappeared. >> i was not in florida. i was in arizona, in the apartment. i was nowhere around here. >> ...

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 im hearing what im h...

Theyd been in storage for 15 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 b...

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 storage for 15 years. the detective we...

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Evidence by the defendant? >> her father was a meticulous record keeper. >> whats to say it wasnt an answering service that picked it up. >> they testified there was no answering machine. >> something changed in december 2010. >> there was new evidence discovered. >> the prosecutor who inherited the case. >> and that new evidence was 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 th...

David became a manager. brown also had a front row seat to the budding romance between jackson and a pretty 16-year-old coworker named barbara britton. >> they were together, and thats awesome. i mean, if you can find love, thats what we all want. >> and so all of these years later, detective velasquez paid a visit to the woman who had been the girl that had fallen in love with david jackson. happy to help, she told the detective. same thing when we called on her to talk about the david she knew...

Things have a way of coming up. things buried in the ground in the past, or both. it was july 2003, beaches quiet, snowbirds back up north. so no one noticed at first what was starting inland, a little, in a town called pembroke pines, where donna velasquez, just three months a detective, a rookie, really, had just been assigned to a brand-new cold case unit. >> the sergeant came into the office and dropped a box of papers right on my desk and said, here, see what you can do with this. and i beg...

To unearth the truth, even the rookie cop knew shed have to learn about the victim. and so she began with something easy. she found david jacksons mother, judy carlson. she found judys son, actually, who called his mom. >> and he said, are you sitting? and i said, yes, and they said, they reopened davids case. >> the detective and the mother talked about david for hours. it wasnt a problem for judy, she loves talking about her boy, even now, to us. >> david was my first child. he was just -- lov...

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 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. >> w...