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This time it happened at sandras preliminary hearing. judge ruled there wasnt enough evidence to hold her. she was free to go. >> oh, i sobbed all the way home. i dont know how i made it back to marietta from santa ana. >> reporter: only brett schrauben was to face a murder trial. it was the summer of 2006, eight years after jack jessees murder. and justice? not yet, if ever. coming up -- finally, the break detectives had been waiting for. >> she wanted jack dead. she wanted it done at the hou...

A get your questions answered by awesome experts store. its a now theres one store that connects your life like never before store. the xfinity store is here. and its simple, easy, awesome. welcome back. much had changed for the jessee clan in the years since jack jessee had been stabbed to death. his wife sandra had moved to arizona to be near her son, tom. jacks murder investigation, once big news in the little town of placentia, had gone cold. but now there was a new detective on the case a...

Crime, which was his daughter cheryl. >> the daughter, we had to look at her as a potential suspect. she was the one who found him. >> back at the station, wyatt interviewed all of jacks relatives, 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 wanted to cooperate and wanted to help solve the murder of her husband. >> and she told him about life with jack, married 14 years, ble...

And a string of homicide detectives, the jack jessee 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 case, i had no feeling for the family, no feeli...

>> matter of proving it is a different story. >> until someone found the perfect bait. >> hey, dude, its me. you need to [ bleep ] call me asap. >> could they set the perfect trap? >> these people might literally get away with murder. >> "deadly conspiracy." hello and welcome to "date line: extra." im craig melvin. with doting grandfather jack jesse at the helm, his big and blended california family seemed like one big happy bunch, then jack was found stabbed to death in his living room and po...

To begin with, it was 1998. "shak . >> cheryl got a change call from her dad, jack jesse. >> i was getting ready for bed and my phone rings. its my dad on the phone. >> what time was this? >> 20 after 9:00. >> he was worried about his wife sandra. she was missing. >> what did he think had happened? >> he thought maybe she had gotten into an accident or something. >> she had run to this nearby mall, but was gone so long, would cheryl please find her, asked her dad. >> went through there, the luck...

Son tom and soon her daughter followed, too. they all lived within a couple of blocks of each other in homes sandra helped purchase with jacks insurance money and savings. >> when everything was said and done, she got close to $700,000. >> and as the months slipped past, leads failed to connect the investigation, hit one dead-end after the other and wyatt was promoted out of homicide. the case bounced from the pd to the orange county sheriffs department, where before long it became a case to avo...

Attorney and she refused to meet with us again. >> same thing happened with sandras kids, jacks stepchildren, while jacks blood relations basically begged to solve the case. so what happened to that big happy family in the video? a mirage, perhaps? in fact, living with sandra, said jacks daughter shari and cheryl, was like a fairytale. >> its too late now. >> the kind writtener by the brothers grim. >> she was just mean to me. she wanted me completely gone. she did everything she could to try to...

>> reporter: jack tracked him down to a distant suburb in the mojave desert. parked in the drive way was a 1999 pickup truck and a sea-doo, just what the anonymous bartender said. >> this was a huge break for us. we now have the name of somebody thats involved in jack jessees murder. coming up -- >> often people throw away valuable evidence. >> detective dove finds treasure in trash. >> this is too good to be true. i thought good things were going to happen. somebodys back on our side again. >...

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...