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You had no part in killing david? >> no, i did not. i had no knowledge. i have no part. and, you know, little lies here in there that might might keeps changing his story. i think he's just psychotic. i think is psychotic for the things that he has said. i was 21 back then. i was very, i don't think i could play much. you know? i'm not stupid. but i'm not that smart. you know? >> no, said barbara. it was all ex-husband michael wolfe's doing. his guilt, she said, made sense of his strange behavior during their time in arizona. particularly the weekend david disappeared. the weekend when, barber...

Michael wolfe told him he fabricated the entire story about barbara participating in the murder of david jackson. >> particular jailhouse snitch was well known, the da said. mostly for the false information he provided. still, after three years in jail, it was enough to get barber released and placed on house arrest, pending trial. and then? prosecutor bandell met michael wolfe to ask him about testifying against barbara. didn't go well. >> the blow came to me when he said what am i getting in return? what will my sentence be reduced to? >> now the state reassessed its options. >> i think, wit...

>> and sure enough, unlike, that was consistent with the investigation. >> along with that story came out sounded like a motive. david disappeared, remember, as he was preparing for a visit from his five year old son, john. >> they decided that david need to be gotten rid of, because they never wanted david to be in johnny's life. >> david was murdered in cold blood just to keep him out of his son's life? >> and boom. it click for me all of a sudden. i said, wow. that's over tell custody. that's why he's not here today. >> that was the motive? >> that was the motive. >> that was wolfe's confes...

Investigation, you know, deep down in their guts are sure that she was at the center of it? did you also sink think so? >> when i think as a person and but i think as a prosecutor i have to keep them separate. 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 david's murder, meaning she acknowledged knowing about ...

Told a cell mate of his that that's it, you know? >> pay the price? >> and i was -- yes. >> interesting, but true. wolfe hasn't commented. but keith seltzer, barbara's defense attorney's expressed stick suspected wolfe had a more practical motive. >> michael wolfe was offered a 15-year plea bargain. to take 15 years and testify against whoever is accomplices might be -- >> sure. >> lo and behold the week after the jury convicts them a first degree murder, there was an option at that point to maybe get that 15 years back. that was his motivation. >> in other words, santa barbara's attorney, wol...