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Impossible. to begin with, it was 1998, shakespeare in love won the osc oscar. monica lewinski was freshly famous. it was the hottest night of the year when sheryl got a call from her dad, jack jesse. >> i was greating ready for bed, and my phone rings, it was my dad. >> what time was it? >> 20 after 9:00. >> she was worried about sandra, his wife, she was missing. >> she ran to a nearby mall on a quick errand but was gone so long. could you find her? >> i went there. >> and when she went back i...

Nails done, brett claimed he and his friend drove to the house to murder jack. >> i was having cold feelings there, and walking down the street, i was having cold feet. i got in the house, standing in the garage now, and i put on a rubber glove, reached inside the door and shut it. i was chicken. i couldnt do it. called tom. i told tom, the doors locked. he said he would call his mom and get back to me. >> according to brett, tom called back within minutes with a backup plan. >> he said his moms...

>> i was referred to her attorney, and she refused to meet with us again. >> same thing happened with sandras kids, jacks stepchildren. while jacks blood relation begged to help solve the case, so what happened to the big happy family in the videos? a mirage, perhaps? in fact, living with sandra, said jacks daughter, was like a fairy tale. >> its too late now. >> she was just mean to me, and wanted me completely gone and did everything she could. >> when it came to her own children, she said, sa...

Trial for the murder of jack jesse. >> going to court was like going to my dads funeral every day. it really was. youre around people that you know killed your dad. it was a ridiculous feeling. you cant even put it into words. just soul-wrenching. >> schrauben testified against them. in court it was argued sandra had a variety of motives for killing jack. she wanted his money before medical bills ate up their savings. and she couldnt bear being away from her son tom. do you think the case had go...

Going to take them in an unexpected direction. heres keith morrison. >> the jack jesse investigation was six years of dead ends, bad breaks, and blind alleys, but now on a new trail, it was a new game, one where he could write the rulebook, but it would be very complicated because doug wanted more than just the get away driver, but everyone connected to jacks murder. >> only way to tie them together was for a wiretap. >> wiretaps are difficult to get. he needed permission from a judge, and to ge...

There parked in the driveway 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 a name of somebody thats involved in jack jesses murder. coming up -- >> often people throw away valuable evidence. >> reporter: the detective finds treasure in trash. >> this is too good to be true. i thought good things were going to happen. somebody was on our side again. >> when "deadly conspiracy" continues.

Stated that the person had used a back door or a window to enter the residence that night. that was significant in that this person had specific details unknown to the general public about the murder of jack jesse. >> most of the tipsters information was vague, like a riddle, another game to be played. there were two killers, though he gave no names. one had a knife. the other had the getaway car. both worked in a big box department store. the man who told the story in the bar that day had been ...

Against the others, that ball came off the track again. this time, at sandras preliminary hearing. the judge ruled there was not enough evidence to hold her. she was free to go. >> i sobbed all the way home. i dont know how i made it back from santa ana. >> only brett was facing a murder trial. it was the summer of 2006, eight years after jacks 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 in th...

Just thrown together in order to lower the trap and catch the mouse. anywhere along the line, there could be a snag. there could be something that we had not planned for that could throw this ball completely off the board. >> okay. >> so what was the plan? what was the nature of the trap? of the mouse trap in. >> we believed that if we did something to get these people uptight, rattle the tree, able to put fear in them, maybe the police were on to them, that they would talk about the murder of j...

In california, moved to arizona to be near her son, tom, and soon, her daughter followed too. they all lived in homes blocks from each other that sandra helped purchase with jacks insurance money and savings. >> when it was all said and done, it was close to $700,000. >> as months past, leads failed to meet up, and wyatt was promoted out of homicide. the case bounced from the pd to the sheriffs department where before long it was a case to avoid, toxic, unsolvable career killer until five years ...