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Little ball came off the track again. this time it happened at sandra's preliminary hearing. judge ruled there wasn't enough evidence to hold her. she was free to go. >> oh, i sobbed all the way home. i don't know how i made it back to marietta from santa ana. >> reporter: only brett schrauben was to face a murder trial. it was the summer of 2006, eight years after jack jessee's murder. and justice? not yet, if ever. coming up -- finally, the break detectives had been waiting for. >> she wanted jack dead. she wanted it done at the house and make it look like a robbery. >> the information tha...

Here's keith morris. >> reporter: after five years and a string of homicide connects, the jack gemsy murder case had become a game to avoid. then one day the whole impossible business was handed off to tom dove. >> i can't tell you how many times that i thought, just move on. give up. move on. >> reporter: there was no hope of any new evidence, of course, like fingerprints or dna. there was just the infuriating puzzle which had become more difficult with each passing year. >> after i reviewed the case, i had no feeling for the family, no feeling for jack jessee. >> reporter: so to get his hand...

Other investigators outside and said, put a call in now to the phone. i heard him answer the phone. so i was able to say that is his phone, he talks on it. we've put the phone in his hand. >> reporter: but as they continue to sift through trash they find something more important than the phone bill, something quite unexpected. this day planner. >> from the years '96, '97, 1998. >> reporter: what were the chances of that? here, six years later, was the day planner for 1998, the year jack jessee was murdered. crucial evidence tossed in schaub's garbage. >> a treasure we didn't expect to find, bu...

>> they thought they knew the motive, too. but -- >> 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? >> these people might literally get away with murder. >> "deadly conspiracy." hello and 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 weren't as close as they seem...

Arguing with sandra about moving to arizona. >> if anything ever happens to me, he says, it's her. >> reporter: not the only time jack said such a thing, it turned out. >> he actually told me, i wouldn't be surprised if the bitch killed me. he said that. >> reporter: so dove picked through all the original files, hoping he might come across something that had been overlooked. and buried inside, he found this. a simple two-page report apparently unread by any detective. remember the guy who walked into the bar, the one who told a story about the jessee murder? well, years later when the case ha...