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Was she really a bereaved ex -- >> i always loved david. >> -- or just maybe a black widow? >> barbara britton is in the middle. >> "buried clues." hello and welcome to "dateline extra." i'm craig melvin. the case sat cold for more than a decade, and then rookie detective donna velasquez got the file and turned up the heat. she'd been given the basics. 24-year-old divorced dad david jackson had vanished without a trace. digging into david's past, she uncovered a twisted tale of love gone bad and a chilling family secret. but to learn the full truth behind david's disappearance, the detective w...

>> i told her, i'm investigating the disappearance to have david jackson. and she said to me, how much evidence do you have against him? and i said, i can't discuss the evidence with you, but i can tell you that it's enough for me to put him away right now. i was just totally bluffing. i had really, nothing. i'm just throwing it out there, you know, fishing that long line and if something bites, i'm reeling it in. and she says, honey, she says, let me call you back. >> the minutes ticked by, velasquez waited by the phone. and when nancy called back, what she said blew the case wide open. >> sh...

Investigator had tracked down a woman who had claimed david's killer had confessed to her in horrifying detail. the 15-year-old cold case was now red hot and there was about to be an astonishing new wrinkle. was david's murder a family affair? once again, here's keith morrison. >> david jackson was murdered the 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 an increasingly complicated web of stories and relationships. david jackson was married to barbara britton, ...

Welcome back. barbara brittto was charge would the murder of her first husband, david jackson, a man she claimed to still love. in a jail house confession barbara's second husband, convicted killer, said barbara had led him into a deadly trap. but there was one more surprise in store. here with the conclusion of our story is keith morrison. >> barbara britton, the woman who sobbed at the mere mention of jackson's name was now in jail for killing him. she made it happen, she was the instigator as well as being the one in the middle? >> i had no doubt in my mind that she was the catalyst. >> bar...

Medical examiner's office, where they'd been in storage for 15 years. 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...