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Sign would appear. when bodies are not found, its because someone intentionally hid him. david jackson might show up, just not alive. >> and my wheels started turning and i started thinking, you know, we live in florida. with the crazy weather that we have and the water table that we have, if he were ever buried somewhere, somewhere along the line he will pop up. >> maybe, detective velasquez thought, remains had popped up. after all, it had been a decade and a half since he disappeared. she goo...

The file offered nothing, really, beyond the basic bio. to unearth the truth, even the rookie cop knew shed have to learn about the victim. so she began with something easy. she found david jacksons mother, judy carlson. >> he said, are you sitting? i said yeah. he said, they reopened davids case. >> the detective and judy talked about david for hours. she loves talking about her boy, even now to us. >> david was my first child. he was just -- loved everything and everyone. ♪ happy birthday to...

>> but that wasnt the end of wolfes tale. a year after the murder he got a call from harry britton. >> he learned that they were going to build a walmart. >> where the bones were? >> where the bones were. >> and harry, michael wolfe told him, youve got to come back down here and move the bones. >> wolfe flew back to florida. >> michael says he found what he could and put them in a trash bag and put the bones out for the trash in a plastic bag. >> michael wolfes story seemed to tell it all and to...

The apartment at that point. that was the last that any of his friends saw him at that point. >> what really happened at the motel? wolfe said he hid in the bathroom when david arrived. >> barbara answered and he was glad to see her. they sat on the edge of the bed and barbara had a stun gun and barbara hit david with a stun gun. >> but the stun gun malfunctioned so wolfe stepped out of the bathroom with his gun. >> he had the gun wrapped in the towel and about that time harry britton came into ...

Lauderdale, the day the mystery began, when a young man named david jackson failed to meet his brother mark at the airport. >> it was a gut feeling that something was wrong and i knew it. >> 15 years later, donna relived that puzzling time. davids ex-wife barbara, by then remarried and living in arizona, got a call from davids worried mother. barbara says she wasnt worried. not then. >> i thought, well, okay, he was with one of his girlfriends and she said, were doing a missing persons report an...

>> as an investigator and as a mom, i began to say, did you ever call the police? she said, oh, no. i never called the police. she says, i just thought he would change. she proceeds to tell me that, i documented the injuries with photographs. never produced any photographs for me. >> barbara changed her story, said it was really her father, not her, who accused david of abusing his son and today she questions the allegation. >> by dad was looking to counselors and having them evaluate it and stu...

Attorney, suggested wolfe had a much more practical motive. >> michael wolfe was initially offered a 15-year plea bargain to testify against whoever his accomplices might be and lo and behold, there was an option at that point to maybe get that 15 years back. that was his motivation. >> in other words, said barbaras attorney, wolfe would sell out barbara any way he could to get a reduced sentence. of course, there was the uncomfortable fact of the two unprompted confessions of his ex-wives, in w...

But exhausting. >> im there typing away and typing and typing and it pops up about 100 matches. >> but she was determined. she finally dwindled it down to a possible three. >> one of them really stands out for me that says white male and it says over 6 foot. davids a tall guy. and hes a white male. possibly. >> those particular bones, just a few partial skeletons, turned up during possible construction at a walmart parking lot not far from the place where david lived, surfaced just a year after ...

>> we were just too young and to have a baby and all the time -- it was difficult for him and it was difficult for me. >> so who is was the first person to say, youve got to have a divorce? >> my dad. >> how did david take it? >> he was just kind of like -- lets just -- >> get it over with? >> find somebody, some lawyers and see what we have to do and that was it. >> the two divorced in 1985. david arranged weekend visits with john. >> how were they together? >> wonderful. johnny just clung to h...

>> i wrote letters to oprah winfrey, to americas most wanted. and then i thought, okay, make i can have a picture of him on the semis. i did all of the letters. but it was -- it took me a long time to finish any letter about him because i didnt want the ending to be like i thought it was. >> a little piece of her still hoping for good news. part of her mourning a loss. >> i found a therapist right away. she said take like 20 minutes every day, either scream and cry in the morning, scream and cry...