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Designed to provoke exactly the reaction the sisters felt. >> hatred. more than i had before. >> reporter: sandra seemed to be telling them she'd beaten them, got away with it, won the game. >> we just said, are we cursed? is there something with this case that's just not going to be solved? >> it's frustrating for him putting all this work in. to think these people might get away, literally get away with murder. >> oh, isn't that the -- >> reporter: patty is tom's wife, been together since high school, knows him better than anyone. she was used to his compulsive perfectionism. >> it's comfort...

Sandra announced she had now helped as much as she could. she was done. >> i was referred to her attorney and she refused to meet with us again. >> reporter: same thing happened with sandra's kids, jack's stepchildren. while jack's blood relations practically begged to help solve the case. so what happened to that big happy family in the video? a mirage, perhaps? in fact, living with sandra, said jack's daughter cheree and cheryl, was a fairy tale, the kind britain by the brothers grimm. >> she was mean to me. she wanted me completely gone. she did everything she could to try and get rid of me...

And tom dove says to me, listen, buddy, nobody likes me in my department. he says, i'm not going nowhere. he says, i got five years to put in your brother's case. he says, i retire and i'm out of here. he said, but i'll give it my all. i will give everything to this case that i have. i looked over at him, i said, you're the man. >> reporter: what david didn't know but clearly sensed was that detective tom dove was the real deal, a legendary law man who seemed to have stepped out of his own primetime drama. >> there wasn't a whole lot to go on. there wasn't any physical evidence, there wasn't a...

Liked to talk. 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 in the game, dove met with the people closest to jack. like his brother david. >> and when i met with david, he inspired me. his determination not to let the love for his brother go was a big motivating factor. >> reporter: but david also had some provocative information. something jack told him after arguing with sandra about moving to arizona. >> if anything ever happens to me, he says, it's he...

>> reporter: after two years of relentless police work, tom dove's investigation of the murder of jack jessee had generated enough evidence to fill this mail cart. all apparently for naught. the suspect and his key to cracking the case had skipped the state, and detective dove's jurisdiction. >> we were so close. >> reporter: the jessee family sensed dove had been beaten and sandra jessee had won. had gotten away with murder. >> i put his pictures away. i couldn't -- it's tough. because he was so -- he was so