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>> i think the photographs of tom aehlert and sandra jessee was worth a million words as to the depth of their involvement and how far they would go to conceal what they had done. in their minds they had thought they got away with the perfect crime. >> reporter: meanwhile, dove would hop on flights back to orange county to pressure schraubens friends for information. he was, of course, relentless. chased down anybody who knew the man. followed one tip to another. until dove finally encountered t...

Day planner for 1998, the year jack jessee was murdered. crucial evidence tossed in schraubens garbage. >> a treasure we didnt expect to find, but what that day planner did was connected all the people back in 1998 that were associated with brett schrauben >> what did you think? >> this is too good to be true, i thought, good things were going to happen. somebodys back on our side again. >> reporter: with this evidence, dove was able to get a judge to approve a wiretap on brett schraubens phone....

>> happy new year! >> reporter: even got together for a monthly game of 10-pins. what these grainy home videos dont show is what is yet to come. which is murder, conspiracy. one branch of the family against the other. a game so twisted, mice so clever that crafting a trap to catch the plotters just might be impossible. to begin with, it was 1998. "shakespeare in love" won the oscar. monica lewinsky was freshly famous. it was a sweltering august night, hottest of the year, when cheryl deedham got...

Was in moscow for a wedding. the state department says its seeking access to wheelland now. president trumps first meeting with the leaders since the partial shut down began december 22nd tomorrow. for now back to "deadly conspiracy." welcome back to "dateline extra." im craig melvin. detective tom dove had just secured a warrant to wiretap murder suspect brett schraubens shown, then he learned schrauben was relocating to arizona, a move that threatened to derail the investigation. dove didn...

>> we believed that if we did something to get these people uptight, if we were able to rattle the tree, if we were able to put some fear into them that maybe the police were on to them. that they would talk about the murder of jack jessee. >> so what was the little piece of cheese you put into that trap? >> we nailed a simple copy of the newspaper article when jack jessee was murdered anonymously to sandra jessee, tom aehlert, and brett schrauben. the significance of that was they didnt know we...

Place. there he went inside to clean himself up. >> the information he provided, if we could corroborate what he said, would blow the case wide open. >> t.j. garrick was questioned and denied everything. he said he wasnt in the car and he didnt kill jack jessee. police let him go. investigators focused on building their case against tom and sandra by documenting money transfers, phone calls, air travel. >> so when you add all that together, whatd you think? >> i thought we were starting to put t...

Something that had been overlooked. and buried inside, he found this. a simple two-page report apparently unread by any detective. remember the guy who walked into the bar, the one who told a story about the jessee murder? well, years later when the case had gone cold, the bartender decided to call the placentia cops. an officer took the call, typed up the report, and stuck it away in the file where it sat unseen until tom dove came along. >> two things caught my mind. when i read it. one, whoev...

Big motivating factor. >> reporter: but david also had some provocative information. something jack told him after arguing with sandra about moving to arizona. >> if anything ever happens to me, he says, its her. >> reporter: not the only time jack said such a thing, it turned out. >> he actually told me, i wouldnt be surprised if the bitch killed me. he said that. >> reporter: so dove picked through all the original files, hoping he might come across something that had been overlooked. and buri...

An elaborate trap requiring the help of nearly 100 officers across two states. could the detective pull it off? or was he headed toward another dead end? here again is keith morrison. >> reporter: after two years of relentless police work, tom doves investigation of the murder of jack jessee had generated enough evidence to fill this mail cart. all apparently for naught. the suspect and his key to cracking the case had skipped the state, and detective doves jurisdiction. >> we were so close. >> ...

13th, 1998, while sandra was out having her nails done, schrauben claimed he and his friend drove to the jessee house to murder jack. >> i was already having a cold feeling on the way there. by the time i was walking down the street i was really having cold feet. i got in the house, im standing in the garage now. i put on a rubber glove. and reach inside the door and unlock the it and shut it. i was chicken. i couldnt do it. i called tom. i told tom, the doors locked. and he said he would call h...