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This one more time. and she comes back and she goes, honey, i was wrong the first time, she says, this person is anywhere between 5'9" and 6'1". i said, oh, my gosh, i think i've hit paydirt. >> she dot dna from david's mother, waited for a lab to 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 bee...

But she was a felon now. >> you have a title over your head. it's life changing. it's very life changing. >> do you swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth? >> yes, i do. >> detective velasquez joined barbara at the sentencing hearing. >> judge, for the record, david jackson's mother would like to speak. >> of course. >> david's mother read an impact statement. >> barbara, i've cried endlessly for 24 years. i've wanted to die myself to be with david. >> her gaze fixed on the woman her son once loved. >> you are guilty. michael wolfe is where he should be in pr...

Been haunted by the disappearance of her son, david. now, detective donna velasquez was reaching deep into the past for clues. there she found the tale of two love-struck teenagers who married, had a baby, and divorced in quick secession. common sense and an exhaustive internet search were about to lead the investigator to a stunning discovery. here again is keith morrison. >> it was june 25th, 1988, ft. lauderdale, the day the mystery began. when a young man named david jackson failed to meet his brother, mark, at the airport. >> it was a gut feeling something was wrong. and i knew it. >> 15 ...

Had been married seven times. number six, a woman named nancy graham, lived in alabama. velasquez called her. >> 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 tick...

To extradite michael wolfe back to florida. >> how did he react? >> he said some pretty harsh words. it's not very ladylike if i said it, though. >> you can say it. >> he said, i'm [ bleep ]. >> this was it. velasquez had her momentum. finally, after 15 years, she had made sure that someone was going to be held accountable for the death of david jackson. >> 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. >>...