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Year, then move up? become a sergeant or something and move on? and tom dove says to me, listen, buddy, nobody likes me in my department. he says, i'm not going nowhere. he says, i got five years to put in your brother's case. he says, i retire and i'm out of here. he said, but i'll give it my all. i will give everything to this case that i have. i looked over at him, i said, you're the man. >> reporter: what david didn't know but clearly sensed was that detective tom dove was the real deal, a legendary law man who seemed to have stepped out of his own primetime drama. >> there wasn't a whole ...

>> we were paying her rent. >> power. >> paying food for her children. >> she was going to the food bank for food. >> my mother was paying for her school and her computers. >> fascinating how the issues of a divorce can seem to change depending on who's doing the looking. now the detectives were. and they at least began to make that kind of progress that comes from dead ends. >> i was able to eliminate tom walker and john kenlein. >> one name they hadn't been able to cross off their list seemed more and more important. >> clay starbuck was never eliminated as the suspect. >> clay starbuck, the...

And went through every single one of them until we found the one that marie's car had received. >> reporter: and? yes, they got a print. but no, it wasn't clear enough to tell whose it was. then, another thought. >> hey, let's go pull surveillance video. and of course -- >> reporter: you looked at all of it. >> well, no. the video didn't wor -- it wasn't working. >> reporter: oh. >> -- during the time that we needed. this case, for sure, was an investigator's worst nightmare. >> reporter: dead ends everywhere. >> yes. >> reporter: and weeks went by. no sign of marie anywhere. time to embrace t...

Buddy. nobody likes me in my department. he said, i'm not going nowhere. he says i got five years to put in your brother's case and then i retire and i'm out of here. he said, but i'll give it my all. i will give everything to this case that i have. i looked over at him, and i said you're the man. >> what david didn't know but clearly sensed was that detective tom dove was the real deal, a legendary law man who seemed to have stepped out of his own prime time drama. >> there wasn't a whole lot to go on. there wasn't any physical evidence, there wasn't any eyewitnesses. >> in other words, the p...

Here's keith morrison. the jack jessee investigation had been six years of dead ends, bad breaks, blind alleys. now on the trail of a suspect, tom dove was about to start a new game. one where he could write the rule book. but it would be very complicated because dove wanted more than just the get-away driver, bret schrauben. he wanted everyone connected to jack jessee's murder. >> the only way to tie them together in this conspiracy was to do a wiretap. >> but wiretaps are notoriously difficult to get. dove needed permission from a judge, and in order to do that, he needed to prove schraube...