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All michael would admit to was meeting harry in a park near the walmart overlooking the place where the bones would come out. >> michael looked over to that plot of land and said, well, if you needed to bury a body, that would be a good place to do it. and then he concluded his 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 in the hands of harry britton. ...

Heres what happened, as nancy heard it. wolfe and harry britton rented a hotel room on that long july night, invited david to a meeting there. >> and when he gets at the hotel, they have a very small conversation and michael shot david in the head. >> he told me he had to get so drunk to do it and that the first shot didnt kill him. he had to shoot him again. >> after which, as nancy relayed the story -- >> they did take his car to the airport and left it there. then they took him over to -- i m...

>> its a strange thing that happens among the bogs of marshes, the soft soil here in coastal florida. things of a way of coming up, things buried in the ground, in the past, or bones. it was july 2003, beaches quiet, snowbirds back up north. so no one noticed at first what was starting inland in a town called pembrooke pines, where donna, 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 s...

This one more time? she comes back and she says, 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 paid dirt. >> she waited for a lab to compare samples and ten days later called the testing facility and she said, i hope youre sitting down and i said why, and she said we have a 100% match? and i said, what? because im not believing what im hearing. >> 15 years after he disappeared, david jackson had finally been found. ...

>> davids brother mark was not at all sure that justice was served. >> if you lose in trial, thats gods will. you cant control that. but i think it should have gone to trial. i think society in two years when she comes off of house arrest needs to worry. >> we have a picture of david. >> but his mother -- >> there is justice. yes. and shes a felon now for life. shes got to live with all that. i dont. every time i get out of bed in the morning, one leg says guilty and the other one says felon. >>...

>> forced? >> yeah. >> you dont have to force a willing participant. >> and you believe she was willing? >> yes. >> the detective couldnt help remembering, she said, what barbara told her when she heard that davids bones had been identified. >> strangely enough, the first thing she said to me was, how many bones do you have? >> come on. >> she had participated in retrieving those bones and they thought they had gotten them all. when they had left about 50% behind. >> all this time, said the dete...

Up with was an increasingly web of relationships. david jackson was married to barbara britton. her father disliked david. barbara later married wolfe and they divorced and he married two more times. but now finally one of wolfes ex-wives, a woman named nancy, was telling her she knew everything about what happened to david. >> can you tell me again? >> i know how he was killed and what they did with him. >> how did she know? according to the ex, michael drank, a lot. >> every night he would alm...

True, there was no prison time, but she was a felon now. >> you have a title over your head. its life changing. its very life changing. >> do you swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth? >> yes, i do. >> detective velasquez joined barbara at the sentencing hearing. >> judge, for the record, david jacksons mother would like to speak. >> of course. >> davids mother read an impact statement. >> barbara, ive cried endlessly for 24 years. ive wanted to die myself to ...

And while i may have believed that barbara was a full participant in this, what i can prove is totally different. >> so you made an offer? >> we made an offer. >> barbara britton was offered two more years of house arrest and eight years of probation. she would avoid trial but she had to plead guilty to accessory after the fact in davids murder, meaning she acknowledged knowing about the crime but only after it occurred. something she had always denied. >> youve got to remember, hi the option to...

>> strange how things turn out. barbara had moved back to florida, remarried again, had a daughter, took a job at walmart, but still held a candle for david even as he lay under the ground practically next door to the very walmart where she worked. >> what did that do to you? >> its an erie feeling, you know, that he was in that area that i didnt even know about. >> such an odd coincidence, too odd, maybe? time for a chat. detective velasquez called barbara got herself invited over to barbaras h...