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Complicated. because doug wanted more than just a getaway driver, he wanted everyone connected to jack gemsys murder. >> the only way we could tie them together in this conspiracy was to do a wiretap. >> reporter: but wiretaps are notoriously difficult to get. dove needed permission from a judge, and to get that, he needed to prove schrauben was still in contact with tom and toms mother sandra. it was a catch-22. so time to get creative. >> it had been my experience when i had worked in the narc...

Because doug wanted more than just a getaway driver, he wanted everyone connected to jack gemsys murder. >> the only way we could tie them together in this conspiracy was to do a wiretap. >> reporter: but wiretaps are notoriously difficult to get. dove needed permission from a judge, and to get that, he needed to prove schrauben was still in contact with tom and toms mother sandra. it was a catch-22. so time to get creative. >> it had been my experience when i had worked in the narcotics section...

Jacks killer? heres keith morrison. >> reporter: after five years and a string of homicide connects, the jack gemsy murder case had become a game to avoid. then one day the whole impossible business was handed off to tom dove. >> i cant tell you how many times that i thought, just move on. give up. move on. >> reporter: there was no hope of any new evidence, of course, like fingerprints or dna. there was just the infuriating puzzle which had become more difficult with each passing year. >> after...

>> reporter: the jack jessee investigation had been six years of dead ends, bad breaks, blind alleys. now on the trail of a suspect, tom dove was about to start a new game, one where he could write the rule book. but it would be very complicate. because doug wanted more than just a getaway driver, he wanted everyone connected to jack gemsys murder. >> the only way we could tie them together in this conspiracy was to do a wiretap. >> reporter: but wiretaps are notoriously difficult to get. dove n...

Tom dove was about to start a new game, one where he could write the rule book. but it would be very complicate. because doug wanted more than just a getaway driver, he wanted everyone connected to jack gemsys murder. >> the only way we could tie them together in this conspiracy was to do a wiretap. >> reporter: but wiretaps are notoriously difficult to get. dove needed permission from a judge, and to get that, he needed to prove schrauben was still in contact with tom and toms mother sandra. it...

Knew each other. >> reporter: protocol told him look at the person who reported the crime, daughter cheryl. >> the daughter, we had to look at her as a potential suspect. she was the one who found him. >> reporter: back at the station, wyatt interviewed all of jacks relativelies, including cheryl, and jacks wife sandra, who hadnt been missing at all, just out on a shopping trip. >> mrs. jesse came to the station with us voluntarily, told us she would cooperate, wanted to help us solve the murder...

Heres keith morris. >> reporter: after five years and a string of homicide connects, the jack gemsy murder case had become a game to avoid. then one day the whole impossible business was handed off to tom dove. >> i cant tell you how many times that i thought, just move on. give up. move on. >> reporter: there was no hope of any new evidence, of course, like fingerprints or dna. there was just the infuriating puzzle which had become more difficult with each passing year. >> after i reviewed the ...

To begin with, it was 1998. "shakespeare in love" won the oscar. monica lewinsky was freshly famous. it was a sweltering august night, hottest of the year, when cheryl deedham got a strange call from her dad, jack gemsy. >> i was getting ready for bed and my phone rings and its my dad on the phone. >> what time was this? >> 9:20. >> reporter: he was worried about his wife sandra. she was missing. >> he thought she may have got in an accident or something. >> reporter: shed run to this nearby mal...

Time. he immersed himself in sandras old phone bills. seized by detective wyatt years before. >> what i did is i went through every telephone call on those phone records looking for somebody related to this case. there had to be some communication. >> hit anywhere? >> yeah. >> reporter: what dove found that had been overlooked before was a cluster of calls not long before the murder, all short, within minutes of each other. one of those calls was to a target store, one was to a pager, one was to...

>> i was referred to her attorney and she refused to meet with us again. >> reporter: same thing happened with sandras kids, jacks stepchildren. while jacks blood relations practically begged to help solve the case. so what happened to that big happy family in the video? a mare raj, perhaps? in fact, living with sandra, said jacks daughter cher re and cheryl, was a fairy tale, the kind britain by the brothers grimm. >> she was mean to me. she wanted me completely gone. she did everything she cou...