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>> 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...

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 years later, detective donna velasquez relived that puzzling time. david's ex-wife, barbara, by then remarried and living in arizona, as she told detective velazquez, got a call from david's worried mother. barbara said she wasn't worried, not then. >> i thought, okay, he was was with one of his girlfriends. and she was like, no, we're doing a missing person report. and i said, no, he's going to call me in a couple of days, i know he is. he's ...

>> 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 seriously thinking, you know, maybe some day i'll get back together with him? >> when it's your first love, you're always think, you know, wow, you know, could it work? what if? >> strange how things turn out. barbara ...

To reveal everything, including the accomplice he said led david straight into the ambush. here again is keith morrison. >> in november of 2007, the man who shot david jackson to death was found guilty of the crime and sent to prison for the rest of his life. but a couple of days after he was sentenced, wolfe sent out word that he was ready to tell the rest of the story. sure, he said, he was the trigger man and yes, his father-in-law was determined to get rid of david permanently. but to set their trap, to lure david to the kill site, the motel, they needed bait. and that bait, said wolfe, wa...

Meet mr. britton when mr. britton was ten minutes down the road? i mean, david is not a stupid child at 24. why would mr. britton want to see him in a motel? >> tell them what you know, they demanded. there would be no justice, they told wolfe, unless everyone involved was held accountable. outside the courtroom, david's brother encountered the state's attorney and said -- >> he's going to tell you, and he said, he's not going to tell me anything. i saw it in his eyes, he'll tell you. and then we got the real story. >> in fact, it was just two days later when wolfe finally confessed the true m...