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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 answering machine. >> 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 mostly...

David became a manager. brown also had a front row seat to the budding romance between jackson and a pretty 16-year-old coworker named barbara britton. >> they were together, and that's awesome. i mean, if you can find love, that's what we all want. >> and so all of these years later, detective velasquez paid a visit to the woman who had been the girl that had fallen in love with david jackson. happy to help, she told the detective. same thing when we called on her to talk about the david she knew. >> he was a very good-looking man. you know, we just had an attraction for each other and starte...

Things have a way of coming up. things buried in the ground in the past, or both. it was july 2003, beaches quiet, snowbirds back up north. so no one noticed at first what was starting inland, a little, in a town called pembroke pines, where donna velasquez, just three months a detective, a rookie, really, had just been assigned to a brand-new cold case unit. >> the sergeant came into the office and dropped a box of papers right on my desk and said, here, see what you can do with this. and i began to wonder, mm, is this a test to see, can she really do this? >> that the case was a challenge wa...

To unearth the truth, even the rookie cop knew she'd have to learn about the victim. and so she began with something easy. she found david jackson's mother, judy carlson. she found judy's son, actually, who called his mom. >> and he said, are you sitting? and i said, yes, and they said, they reopened david's case. >> the detective and the mother talked about david for hours. it wasn't a problem for judy, she loves talking about her boy, even now, to us. >> david was my first child. he was just -- loved everything and everyone. ♪ happy birthday to you >> david jackson was the eldest of judy's...

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 bring michael wolfe back to florida to stand trial for the murder of david jackson. >> we did the arrest warrant and within a couple of days we were flying out to kettering, ohio, to extr...