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>> he went out there a with friend of his and they saw johnny for three days. i got pictures of johnny in, like, the old western town and everything. >> reporter: and maybe it was something about the distance, said barbara -- >> david and i became very good friends when i was out in arizona. and we used to talk a lot. >> reporter: in fact, what she felt deep in her heart, she said, never did go away. >> i'll always love david. >> reporter: and then it was june 25th, 1988. david's brother mark was flying into town to visit the family. david was to pick him up at the airport. but when mark arriv...

Swam in -- through pipes, under the little bridges on the little dirt roads, anywhere. you see a car that looked like his go by, you do a u-turn and you chased it. >> reporter: how long did that go on? >> that went on until they found his car. >> reporter: which, more than three months later, turned out to be at the airport. so did he just take off? his close friend didn't think so. >> maybe he got on a plane and he -- maybe he wanted to do something different. and then i was like, "no, he wouldn't do that." >> reporter: for one thing, david had been preparing for the arrival, in two weeks, of...

"wow, you know, would it work, what if?" >> reporter: strange how things turn out. barbara had moved back to florida. remarried again, had a daughter, took a job at walmart. but still held a candle for david, even as he lay under the ground practically next door to the very walmart where she worked. what did that do to you? >> it's an eerie feeling. you know, that he was in that area, that i didn't even know about. >> reporter: such an odd coincidence. too odd, maybe? time for a chat. detective velasquez called barbara, got herself invited over to barbara's house. barbara seemed to have no pro...

Thing. >> we were just too young. and to have a baby all the time, i -- you know, he was -- it was difficult for him. and it was difficult for me. >> reporter: so who was the first person to say, "you got to get a divorce?" >> my dad. >> reporter: how'd david take it? >> so he was just kind of, like, let's just -- >> reporter: get it over with -- >> let's just find somebody, some lawyers and, you know, see what we have to do. and that was it. >> reporter: the two divorced in 1985. david arranged weekend visits with john. how were they together? >> oh, wonderful. johnny just clung to him. they ...

Motive. david disappeared, remember, as he was preparing for a visit from his five year old son, john. >> they decided that david needed to be gotten rid of because they never wanted david to be in johnny's life. >> reporter: david was murdered in cold blood just to keep him out of his son's life? >> and boom, it clicked for me all of a sudden. i said, "wow." i said, "that's over child custody. that's why he's not here today." >> reporter: that was the motive? >> that was the motive. >> reporter: but was wolfe's confession to an ex-wife a true story, or just alcohol fueled bravado? there was n...