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>> do you have one that got away? >> hes my first love. >> the guy who disappeared. except, in her case, he really disappeared. >> hes going to call me in a couple days. he never called. >> his family, in agony. >> i called everyone from oprah winfrey to "americas most wanted". >> a rookie detective finally broke the case. >> i said, oh my gosh. i think i hit pay dirt. >> a sweet strange phone call revealed a secret. >> david needed needed to be gotten rid of. >> then we got the real s...

>> hes gonna comey in a couple of days, he never called. >> his family in agony. >> americas most wanted. >> a rookie detective finally broke the case. >> i said oh my god. >> a strange phone call revealed a secret. >> david needed to be gotten rid of. >> a bombshell revelation. was she really a bereaved acts? >> i always loved him. >> or just maybe a black widow? >> she is in the middle. >> hello and welcome to dateline. for years judy carlson lived in a most painful kind of limbo, he...

What she believed to be true, that barbara was an integral part of the plot to kill david jackson. and finally, now, barbara britton was arrested and charged with murder. now, perhaps, a jury could answer the question. do you believe this woman? a woman whose hands literally shook, whose tears flowed at the mere mention of her departed ex-husband. do you believe the things she said? >> all the time we thought he was -- its always been -- hes missing. with discounts on car insurance. -what? ♪ -...

Because it sure didnt satisfy me? >> still, in december of 2007, it was detective velasquez who got what she wanted. she had worked hard to prove what she believed to be true, that barbara was an integral part of the plot to kill david jackson. and finally, now, barbara britton was arrested and charged with murder. now, perhaps, a jury could answer the question. do you believe this woman? a woman whose hands literally shook, whose tears flowed at the mere mention of her departed ex-husband. do y...

>> still, in december of 2007, it was detective velasquez who got what she wanted. she had worked hard to prove what she believed to be true, that barbara was an integral part of the plot to kill david jackson. and finally, now, barbara britton was arrested and charged with murder. now, perhaps, a jury could answer the question. do you believe this woman? a woman whose hands literally shook, whose tears flowed at the mere mention of her departed ex-husband do you believe the things she said >> a...

>> he told me he shot him in the head and he told me that he had a silencer on the gun. >> now she, too, was called to the stand. that was enough. the jury was out less than an hour. the verdict was guilty. at the sentencing, life in prison, david jacksons family confronted michael wolfe, not just to condemn him, but to ask a question because there was still a piece missing, something that didnt make sense. what was david doing in that motel room the night they killed him? why did he walk into t...

>> a phone bill from her mothers home placing calls to her home in arizona that night when nobody else could have been there. >> whats a phone bill of that age doing lying around somewhere where it can be grabbed for evidence by the defendant? >> the father was a meticulous record keeper. >> whats to say that wasnt an answering service that picked it up. >> michael wolfe testified in their first deposition that they had no answering machine. >> could have been someone else in the home. >> we que...

>> two youngsters in love and then things happen, dont they? >> mom, ive got something to tell you. i said, what? and he said, barbara is pregnant. >> judy was surprised, a little worried maybe but nowhere near as barbaras parents, particularly her dad, an ex-marine who was not very impressed with young mr. jackson, or so judy heard. >> mr. britton did not like him. i dont know why. >> still, david was walking on air. >> he said, mom, im going to have sell the truck and i said why and he said im...

Friend of his and they saw johnny for three days. ive got pictures of johnny in like the old western town and everything. >> maybe it was something about the distance, said barbara. >> we became very good friends and we used to talk a lot. >> in fact, what she felt deep in her heart never did go away. >> ill always love david. >> and then it was june 25th, 1988, davids brother mark was flying into town to visit the family. david was to pick him up at the airport but when mark arrived, he waited ...

>> he told me that someone was placing drugs on his coke-cola route and through his route they were being taken off of the truck. i said, wow. thats pretty serious. she says, yeah. >> interesting. >> very. >> to the detective, 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 learn, barbara had an alibi. she wasnt anywhere near florida, she...