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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 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, ...

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...

The clock, the relentless 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 ma...

And wrote letters, but it took me a long time to write a letter about him, because i didn't want the ending to be like i thought it was. >> it was a horrible limbo, a little piece of her still hoping for a piece of good news, the rest mourning a loss. >> i found a therapist that said, take 20 minutes out of every day and either scream and cry in the morning or scream and cry at night. >> can anybody that's never been in your shoes know what it's like for a mother? >> no. >> now years later, the investigation was back in high gear. judy told detective velasquez in some corner of her heart, she ...

>> 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 would have to sort the players fr...