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Search for evidence was about to take him in an unexpected direction. here's keith morris. >> reporter: the jack jessee investigation had been six years of dead ends, bad breaks, blind alleys. now on the trail of a suspect, tom dove was about to start a new game, one where he could write the rule book. but it would be very complicate. because doug wanted more than just a getaway driver, he wanted everyone connected to jack gemsy's murder. >> the only way we could tie them together in this conspiracy was to do a wiretap. >> reporter: but wiretaps are notoriously difficult to get. dove needed pe...

Clive still felt the government's case was a sham, as illustrated by the additional murder they tried to pin on smitty. >> 9 government said through carl hawley that smitty had committed another murder and his getaway driver was another outlaw called junkyard. well, i say to smitty, who's this junkyard? and smitty laughs and says that's the outlaws' dog. and it was just a farce. >> after nearly two months of trial smitty's jury was deadlocked. typically, this would have resulted in a mistrial and smitty going free. >> but the judge then gives the the jury an instruction, called an allen charge...

The, to be his getaway driver. and on that afternoon, while sandra was out having her nails done, schrauben claims they drove to the house to murder jack. >> i was already having cold feet on the way there. by the time i was down the street i was really having cold feet. i got in the house, standing in the garage now. and i put on rubber gloves and reached inside the door and unlocked it and shut it. i was chicken. i couldn't do it. i called tom, said the door's locked. he said he would call his mom and get back to me. >> and according to schrauben tom called back within minutes with a backup ...

Problem. if we don't lay it at the feet of the republican party, we are letting them get away. >> i want to ask you about the words in this document in this day and age. this is the affidavit. 12 pages long. the words are clearly different to people across this country. what does that mean for law enforcement that you have the kind of doubt we've seen extended to something like this. >> let's be clear. that criminal complaint is a sworn affidavit the by an fbi agent that these are the facts that we've found so far in this early stage of our investigation. what i'm most troubled by, we've heard...

Dove wanted more than just the getaway driver. he wanted everybody related to the murder. >> the only way to tie them together in the conspiracy was a wiretap. >> wiretaps are difficult to get. dove needed permission from a judge, and to get that, he needed to prove schr amount uau still in contact with tom and tom's mom. it was a catch-22. time to get creative. >> it was uh my experience in the narcotics section of the sheriff's department that often people throw away valuable evidence. >> dove asked his fellow detectives to help him because he decided to search the garbage. what did they tel...