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David's bones had been recovered from a construction site just a year after he vanished but how? and why did his body end up there? turns out that location had significance to someone, a woman, who was about to make some alarming claims about the young dad. once again, here's keith morrison >> it was good detective work that identified david jackson's earthly remains. what was left of them, but pure chance that the partial skeleton was found at all, as david's brother, mark, found out >> they were getting ready to build a walmart and a construction worker came across some bones reported it, th...

>> her father was a meticulous record keeper. >> what's to say it wasn't an answering service that picked it up >> they testified there was no answering machine. >> something changed in december 2010 >> there was new evidence discovered >> the prosecutor who inherited the case >> and that new evidence was what we consider a jail house snitch and he came forward and stated that michael wolf told him he had fabricated the entire story about barbara participating in the murder of david jackson. >> a particular jail house snitch who's well-known, the da, said mostly for the false information he pr...

Months of such a long, grueling, up and down is tiresome investigation, of nights of not sleeping, of days of going to work and living off of coffee, and i thought, you know what, this is what it's all about. >> it was november of 2007 when michael wolfe went on trial for murder after so many years, any physical evidence that might have tied him to the crime was long gone. but what prosecutors did have was the verbal confession, the drunken story his ex-wife said he had told her. >> i'm sure he told me -- >> and then, checkmate another ex-wife told police virtually the same story >> he told me...

To unearth the truth, even the rookie cop knew she'd have to learn about the victim and so she began with something easy she found david jackson's mother, judy carlson she found judy's son, actually, who called his mom >> and he said, are you sitting? and i said, yes, and they said, they reopened david's case >> the detective and the mother talked about david for hours it wasn't a problem for judy, she loves talking about her boy, even now, to us. >> david was my first child. he was just -- loved everything and everyone ♪ happy birthday to you >> david jackson was the eldest of judy's three ...

>> to detective velasquez, that sounded like a made-up story, almost as if she was trying to divert suspicion away from someone. an ex-wife would qualify, of course, as a person of interest in this kind of case, but as velasquez and we learned, barbara had an alibi she wasn't anywhere near florida, she said, when david disappeared. >> i was not in florida. i was in arizona, in the apartment. i was nowhere around here. >> and lacking any further evidence, detective velasquez was stalled, dead in the water unless, maybe the man barbara was married to at the time knew something, michael wolfe a l...