And right in the middle of preparations he vanished . It didnt make sense but the days turned into weeks, months, middle. Hello and welcome to dateline. Years. Not a sign of david the police for years, judy lived in the most painful kind of limbo. Her son david disappeared without a trace. Went on to cases but his mother the case went unsolved, sitting cold for more than a decade never let up. Until the rookie detective was she knew david was out there assigned to investigate. Somewhere. On to americas most wanted digging into davids past, she and then a picture of him in the uncovered a twisted tale of love back and i got a list of all the gone bad and a grizzly family big Trucking Companies that did all the letters but it was it secret. But the detective still needed took me a long time to finish to knowte what motive was at th any letter about him because i heart of this crime. Heres Keith Morrison with didnt want the ending to be buried secrets. Like i thought it was. It was, she said, a horrible limbo. A little piece of her still its a strange thing. Hoping for good news. Part of her mourning a loss. The soft soil here in coastal i found a therapist right away. Florida. Things have a way of coming up. Take 20 minutes out of every day things buried in the ground in and scream and cry in the the past. Morning or scream and cry at it was july 2003, beaches quite, night. Anybody know what its like snow birds back up north so no for a mother. No. One noticed at first in a town years later the investigation was back in high gear. Called Pembroke Pines where judy said in some corner of her donna, threes months a detecti, heart she hoped david might turn a rookie really had just been up safely some day. The detective was not inclined assigned to a brand new cold to false hope. She did not for a minute think case unit. The sergeant came into the he was still alive. Office and dropped a box of papers right on my desk and said surely a sign of him would have here, see what you can do with appeared. No, she believed when bodies this and i began to wonder, is arent found its because someone has intentionally hidden this a test to see can she but David Jackson might show up. Really do this. But the case was a challenge just not alive. And my wheels started turning was an understatement. And i started thinking we live now all but forgotten mystery. The disappearance 15 years in florida with the crazy weather that we have and the water table that we have, if he earlier of a young man named were ever buried anywhere, David Jackson. And the file offered no hints, no pointers, nothing really somewhere along the line youre going to pop up. Beyond the basic file. Maybe the detective thought even the rookie cop knew she remains had popped up. Would have toco learn about the after all it had been a decade victim. So she began with something and a half since he disappeared. Easy. She found David Jacksons so she googled unidentified mother,da judy carlson. Remains. It lead her down an endless she found judys son, actually. Internet trail. Its probably going on 10 00 he said are you sitting . Or 11 00 and im sure my husband i said yes. He is saying where the heck is that said they reopened davids case. Thepe detectivene and the mo girl. One site after another. Talked about david for hours. Dead end until she got to one it wasnt a problem for judy. Created by a Florida Medical shefo loves talking about her b, examiner. Even now to us. Promising but exhausting. Im there typing away and david was my first child. Typing and typing and it pops up he loved everything and about 100 matches. Everyone. She was determined. He would walk in a room and she finally got it down to a possible three. One of them really stands out everyone would be a magnet to him. He was the eldest of judys for me. It was white male. It says over 6 foot. David is a tall guy. Three children and he idolized hes a white male. His older brother. He looked out for me. Possibly. Those particular bones, just he was f that way with his friends, with everybody. A few, a partial skeleton turned bill brown was one of those friends. In 1982 after High School Brown up during construction of a walmart parking lot not far from and David Jackson worked together at burger king where the place where david lived. David became a manager. Surfaced just a year after david brown also had a front row seat died and have been gathering dust in storage for 15 years. To the romance between jackson and a coworker named barbara the detective went to see a forensic anthropologist but when britain. They were together. If you can find love thats what the doctor measured the bones she comes out and she says its we all want. So all of these years later, looking like hes only about the detective played a visit to 59. Still she had a hunch that the woman that had been the girl she had finally found david that had fallen in love with jackson and she wasnt the sort David Jackson. Happy to help she told the of person to give up on a hunch. And i said can we please do detective. Same thing when we called on her to talk about the david she this one more time. She comes back and she said hey, knew. He was a very goodlooking i was wrong the first time. Man. We had an attraction for each other and started talking. She says this person is anywhere sweet,d nice, kind, swept me o between 59 and 61. My feet. He was a good guy. And as she talked it became and i said oh my gosh. Clear, deep emotions would not i think i hit pay dirt. She got dna from davids stay beneath the surface. Mother and waited for a lab to i was young. I was still going to school. Cam pair the samples and ten days later she called the testing facility. This is my first love. She comes to the phone and she said i hope youre sitting two youngsters in love and then well things happen dont down. I said why. They. I got something to tell you. You got 100 match. Oh my gosh. I said what, because im not i said what. Barbara is pregnant. Believing that im hearing what judy was surprised a little im hearing. 15 years after he worried maybe but nowhere near as worried as barbaras parents. Disappeared, David Jackson had finally been found. The question now was what particular her dad. Happened to him . A marine that was not so how did he end up here . Impressed with mr. Jackson. Coming up, a strange he didnt liked him. Consequence or was it . I dont know why. Still david said his mother its an eerie feeling that he was walking on air. Heon came home one day and said was in that area that i didnt im going to have to sell the even know about. When dateline continues. Truck. I said why. Even know about. When dateline continues he said im going to be a father you have the support of a probiotic and a husband and its not and the gastroenterologists who developed it. Appropriate to have a truck. Align naturally helps to soothe so the pretty girl and the your occasional digestive upsets, 24 7. Handsome boy got married. A big wedding too even though so, where you go, the pro goes. Go with align, the pros in digestive health. They were just kids and very soon parents also to a son, john jackson and they fought, made up, fought again. Babies having babies is no easy thing. They were just too young. It was difficult for him and it was difficult for me. So who was the firstperson to say you got to get a divorce. Myo dad. How did david take it . He was just kind of like, lets just 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 him. They loved each other. They all moved on. A couple of years later barbara married again. Ba michael mawolf. An exmilitary man like her dad. About the same age as her dad too. Your dad and your new husband probably saw eye to eye a lot. They sure t did. Y they had a lot in m comcommon. Wolf took barbara and john to live with them in arizona but david wanted to be apart of his childs life so he travelled out west to see the boy. He saw johnny for three days. I have pictures of johnny in the old western town and everything. Maybe it waswn something abo thes distance said barbara. We became very good friends when i was out in arizona. We i used to talk a lot. In fact, what she felt deep in her heart neff did go away. Ill always love david. And l then it was june 25th, 1988. Brother, mark, was flying into town to visit the family. David was tovi pick him up at t airport but when mark arrived he waited and waited. No w david. And mark jackson had a terrible feeling. No matter what he would have been there for me. I knew something was wrong. W i knew something bad happened. Oh, yes, very bad. And as the rookie detective poked around deep in the past that something was reaching up some things are too important to do yourself. Through the mud to tell her its get customized security long neglected story. With 24 7 monitoring from xfinity home. Awarded the best professionally installed system by cnet. The case was both cold and simple. Easy. Awesome. Call, click or visit a store today. Baffling but maybe nature in south florida could help the investigation. Coming up. With the crazy weather and the water table that we have if he were ever buried anywhere somewhere along the line youre going to pop up. When dateline continues. Pop. When dateline continues she said she needed one. Good thing walgreens is right around the corner with great gifts for her. Get in. Get out. Get jolly. Where did we hide dannys gift . Really . Good thing walgreens is right around the corner with lots of great toys. Get in. Get out. Get jolly. It was good detective work that identified David Jacksons early remains. Whats left of them. But a chance that it was found at all. A construction worker came with lots of great toys. Hi susan honey . Across bones. Yeah . They went out and dug up a bunch i respect that. But that cough looks pretty bad. Try this robitussin honey. The real honey you love. Of bones. They were found about a year plus the powerful cough relief you need. After he disappeared and they mind if i root through your trash . Sat in the morgue for 15 years. Robitussin honey. Because its never just a cough. Uh, fifteen minutes could save you 15 ain . As far as i know he was or more on car insurance. Disappeared. He was missing. I think were gonna swap over to over seventyfive but now the detective had a hard truth to tell. Years of savings and service. David jackson was dead. What, were just gonna swap over . Not missing. Yep. Pump the breaks on this, swap it over to that. And the way he had been hidden pump the breaks, and, uh, swap over . Made it perfectly clear he had thats right. Instead of all this that ive already . Been murdered all those years ago. Yeah. Most likely before his friends what are we gonna do with these . Keep it at your desk, and save it for next time. Or family even noticed he was geico. Over 75 years of savings and service. Gone which put a final period of his mothers lingering hope for his return. And apparently an ex wifes what ifs. Are you seriously thinking, maybe some day ill get back together with him . When its your first love you always think, wow, what if. Strange how things turn out. Barbara had moved back to florida, remarried again. Had a daughter. Took a job at walmart and 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 that he was in that area that i didnt even know about. Such an odd consequence. Too odd maybe . Time for a chat. The detective called barbara. Got herself invited over to barbaras house. Barbara seemed to have no problem talking about david. She said she cared about him a lot and i say well how is david as a father . Im part of a community of problem solvers. Well, david became abusive we make ideas grow. Toward johnny physically and from an everyday solution. Emotionally, verbally. To one that can take on a bigger challenge. Wait a minute. This was a whole new thing. From packaging tape. To tape that can bond materials up until now everything about to buildings. And planes. Davids history had been squeaky one idea can unlock a breadth of solutions. Clean. As an investigator and as a at 3m, we are solving problems that improve lives. Mom i begin to say did you ever call the police . She said oh, no, i never called the police. I just thought he would change. She proceeds to tell me that i documented the injuries with photographs. Never produced any photographs for me. For us by the way barbara changed her story and said it was really her father and not her who accused david of abusing his son. My dad was having him Fort Lauderdale when he evaluated and stuff like that failed to meet his brother mark because i would just be like at the airport. This is david, you know, what 15 years later she relived are you talking about . But of course the detective that puzzling time. Couldnt talk to barbaras father about the murder or anything else. Harry britton had been dead for got a call. Barbara said she wasnt years but she had more information for the detective. She recalled a troubling conversation with david. At the time david was working for cocacola. Delivering the product. He told me that someone was placing drugs on his cocacola truck. And through his route they were being taken off of the truck. I said wow, thats pretty serious. And 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 exwife would qualify of course as a person of interest in this kind of case but as we learned, barbara had an alibi. She wasnt anywhere near florida when david disappeared. I was in arizona in the apartment. I was nowhere around here. And lacking any further evidence, the detective was the man barbara was ater unless married to at the time knew something, michael wolf. A little checking revealed wolf had been married seven times. Number six, a woman named nancy graham lived in alabama. She called her. I told her, im investigating the disappearance of David Jackson. And she said to me, how much evidence do you have against him. And i said i cant discuss the evidence with you but i can tell you that its enough for me to put him away right now. I was just totally bluffing. I had really nothing. Im just throwing it out there, you know, fishing that long line and if something bites im reeling it in and she says, honey, she said, let me call you back. The minutes tick by. She waited by the phone and when nancy called back, what she said blew the case wide open. She started telling me about who was involved, how it happened. Where it happened. What they did. How they did it. How they planned it. They . Why yes, they. And by the way, be ware of the sting of an exwifes tale. She said im going to tell you everything that you need to know. Michael wolfs exwife nancy has a jaw dropping story to share and it will send the investigation into overdrive. Coming up the first shot didnt kill him. They had to shoot him again. When date line continues. N d. The man suspected of stabbing multiple people in new york is found in new york city. A senior Law Enforcement official says he was taken into custody in harlem and is suspected of stabbing people on the 7th night of hanukkah. New york city already stepped up patrols after a wave of attacks in recent weeks. Back to dateline. Ecent weeks. Back to dateline welcome bah to dateline. Im craig melvin. Divorced dad David Jackson had been murdered. His body buried in a shallow grave and then years later a stunning development. Rookie detective Donna Velasquez tracked down a woman that said davids killer confessed to her in detail but theres one staggering new wrinkle. Was David Jacksons murder a Family Affair . Once again heres buried secrets. David jackson was murdered in 1988 in florida. That much detective Donna Velasquez could say for certain. But the rest, after more than a year of phone calls and late nights, all velasquez had come up with is a web of stories and relationships. David jackson was married to barbara briton. Her father harry disliked david. She went on to become the fifth wife of a man named michael wolf. They divorced and he later married two more times. Now, finally, one of wolfs exwives was telling police 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 her, michael drank a lot. Every night he would almost down a whole bottle of scotch and i guess he just needed to talk. And the story wolf told according to the ex implicated more than just himself. Heres what happened as nancy heard it. Wolf and Harry Britton 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 said he had to get so drunk to do it. The first shot didnt kill him. He had to shoot him again. Afterwards as nancy relayed the story. They took his car to the airport and left it there and then he took him there was an empty lot there and thats where he buried him. He did not spare the detail, said nancy. He did tell me he poured some corrosive on him. That was consistent with the investigation. David disappeared as he w preparing for a visit from his 5yearold son john. They decided that david needed to be gotten rid of because they never wanted david to be in johnnys life. David was murdered in cold blood just to keep him out of his sons life. And boom, it clicked for me all of a sudden i said wow, thats over child custody. Thats why hes not here today. That was the motive. That was the motive. But was wolfs confession to an exwife a true story or alcohol fuelled bravato . There was no way to know for sure but it was enough to at least bring about the arrest, october 2004 of michael wolf, now living in ohio. But an arrest is not a conviction and as michael wolf cooled his very sober heels in an ohio jail he professed his innocence to anybody that would listen including the local police to whom wolf sent a letter to which he claimed all he knew of a crime centered on a conversation with his exwifes barbaras father a few months before the murder. He read michaels letter. All michael would admit to was meeting harry in a park near the walmart overlooking the place where davids bones would later come out of the ground. Michael wolf said he had basically pointed 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 conc