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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 he'd shot him in the head. an...

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 children. and mark jackson idolized his older brother....

Compare the samples. and ten days later, detective velasquez called the testing facility. >> she comes to the phone and she says, i hope you're sitting down. and i said, why? you've got a 100% match. oh, my gosh?! i said, what? because i'm not believing that i'm hearing what i'm hearing. >> 15 years after he disappeared, david jackson had finally been found. question now was, what happened to him? how did he end up here? coming up, a strange coincidence or was it? >> it's an eerie feeling, you know, that he was in that area that i didn't even know about. >> when "buried clues" continues. als...

I said, wow. i said, that's pretty serious. and she says, yeah. >> interesting. >> very. >> 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....

>> it was the culmination of 16 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 virt...