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"wow, you know, would it work, what if?" >> reporter: 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 eerie feeling. you know, that he was in that area, that i didnt even know about. >> reporter: such an odd coincidence. too odd, maybe? time for a chat. detective ve...

And that bait, said wolfe, was barbara. barbara, who did not require persuasion. quite the contrary, said mr. wolfe. >> barbara britton is in the middle, from what i was able to learn about david, he would have never gone to that hotel room to meet harry britton. he would have never gone to that hotel room to met michael wolfe. >> reporter: he agreed to come meet barbara. the woman who wept tears of love for her long lost david, who professed to have held a torch all those years, was the very sa...

Of a young man named david jackson and the file offered no hints, no pointers, nothing beyond the basic bio. to unearth the truth, even the rookie cop knew she would have to learn about the victim. she began with something easy, his mother, judy carlson. it was his mom who called his mom. >> are you sitting? yes. he says, they reopened davids case. >> the detective and the mother talked about david for hours. it wasnt a problem for judy. she loves talking about her boy. even now to us. >> david ...

Velazquez had come up with was an increasingly complicated web of stories and relationships. david jackson was married to barbara britton. her father, harry, disliked david. barbara went on to become the fifth wife of a man named michael wolfe. they divorced and he later married two more times. and now, finally, one of wolfs ex-wives, woman named nancy, was sitting with detective velazquez, telling police she knew everything about what happened to david. >> can you tell me again? >> because i kn...

Had he died accidentally, surely a sign of him would have appeared. no, she believed, when bodies arent found its because someone has intentionally hidden them. but 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 anywhere, somewhere along the line, youre going to pop up. maybe, the detective thought, remains had popped up...

>> he look out for me. he was that way with his friends, with everybody. >> bill brown was one of those friends. in 1982 after high school, brown and david jackson worked together at a burger king where david became a manager. brown also had a front row seat to the budding romance between jackson and a pretty 16-year-old co-worker named barbara britain. >> they were together. thats awesome. if you can find love, thats what we all want. >> so all these years later, detective velasquez paid a visi...

Promising, but exhausting. >> im there typing away and typing and typing. and it pops up about 100 matches. >> reporter: but she was determined. she finally winnowed it down to a possible three. >> and one of them really stands out for me in that it says, white male. and it says, over six foot. >> reporter: davids a tall guy, and hes a white male. possibly. those particular bones, just a few, a partial skeleton, turned up during construction of a walmart parking lot not far from the place where ...

Grave, so all they had to do was just lay his body in there and cover him up. >> reporter: but that wasnt the end of wolfes tale. a year after the murder, he said, he got a call from harry britton. >> he had learned that they were going to build a new walmart right there at the corner where they were -- >> reporter: where the bones were buried. >> where the bones were. and harry, michael wolfe said, told him, "you have to come back down here and move the bones," almost as an order. >> reporter: ...

Wolfe and harry britton, barbaras father, rented a motel room on that long ago july night, invited david to a meeting there. >> 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. >> reporter: 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 mean there w...

Middle? >> i had no doubt in my mind that -- >> reporter: based on what? >> she was the catalyst. >> reporter: barbara, meanwhile, maintained her innocence, claimed there was a certain reason michael wolfe lied about her that way. it was payback, she said, for something that happened when they were married. and here came another one of those odd stories. earlier, remember, there was the one suggesting drug running on davids delivery truck. now, a story about michael and gun running. >> i was put...