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A possible three. >> one of them really stands out for me. it says, white male, and it says, over 6 foot. david's a tall guy and he's a white male. possibly. >> those particular bones, just a few, a partial skeleton, turned up during construction of a walmart parking lot not far from the place where david lived. surfaced just a year after david died, had been gathering dust in storage for 15 years. the detective went to see a forensic anthropologist. but when the doctor measured the bones. >> she comes out and she says, no, she said, it's looking like he's only about 5'9". >> but still, velasq...

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...

Where you could grab for evidence by the defendant? >> 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 >> 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 ...

And they sat in a morgue for 15 years. >> sat there all those years, even as those who loved david held out a shred of hope that he was alive, somewhere. >> as far as i know, he was disappeared. he was missing. >> but now detective velasquez had a hard truth to tell. david jackson was dead. not missing. and the way he had been hidden made it perfectly clear he had been murdered all those years ago. most likely before his friends or family even noticed he was gone. which have put a final period on his mother's lingering hope for his return. and apparently an ex-wife's what ifs. were you serious...

Where david's bones would later come out of the ground. >> he said, he pointed over to that plot of land and said, if you needed to bury a body, that would be a good place to do it. and he concluded this letter with, and i don't know if he had listened or not. >> apparently he did. >> if michael wolfe had really not known anything beyond that point, it would get him off the hook and leave it all in the hands of harry britton. >> so michael was pinning the murder on no one but harry, who have safely dead and could tell no tales. but now detective velasquez believed she had enough evidence to br...