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>> in the deliberation room. >> these members of the jury told us 11 voted for conviction. but there was one lone juror who felt some level of compassion for sandra. >> she related to the sandra jessee concern that jack jessee's illness would eat up their nest egg. >> i felt like she was enjoying the control she had. >> there was nothing. nothing we could do or say. >> people were getting so heated and there was so much anger that she started to shut down even more. >> and that scene played out for three and a half days until the judge said enough and declared a mistrial. >> i was in tears. >>...

The shock, of course, but one of two shocks for sandra, and to those around her, the second seemed somehow worse. her beloved son, tom, up and moved to arizona. >> and she was flipping out about it. >> yeah. >> just she had to go there. >> she demanded jack move to arizona too. >> that woman was off her rocker. the tone was scary. like somebody else's voice coming out of her. >> surely that was not the motive enough for murder, and with plenty of suspicion, but little else to go on, wyatt spent months pouring over sandra and jack's phone records, credit card bills, statements, searching for --...

Hunting for years. the bartender. who called in the anonymous tip years earlier. >> and the first words out of my mouth were, hi, mike, i'm here about brett, and the face went completely flush, and he said, i knew you'd find me sooner or later. >> what story did he tell you? >> brett confided in him for whatever reason telling him details of the murder of jack jesse including his involvement. that was a huge, huge quantum leap for us in putting this case to rest. >> now the time had come to spring the trap. brett was arrested and soon thereafter sandra jesse, herself, in handcuffs. finally to ...

There was small piece of note paper with the name, which appeared to me, at that time, to say schreuver. that's all it said. i thought. >> but where would he find this person? he unearthed another clue when asking wyatt about tom's friend, sandra said the boys were once work buddies. so detective doug crossed california looking for employment records at every target store for this name in the employment records. nobody had heard of it. >> we were getting to a dead end there. >> that's when jack's daughter got strange packages in the mail from sandra saying they were

>> they thought they knew the motive, too, but -- >> a matter of proving it is a different story. >> until someone found the perfect bait. >> hey, dude, it's me, you need to [ bleep ] call me asap. >> could they set the perfect trap in. >> these people might literally get away with murder. >> "deadly conspiracy." >> hello, welcome to "dateline extra," i'm craig melvin, with doting grandfather jack jesse at the helm, his big and blended california family seemed like one happy bunch. then jack was found stabbed to death in his living room, and police wondered if the jesses were not as close as t...