Page 2 - Jon Sat News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Minnesota. >> now, how would they get rid of the impostor before something awful happened to the family? coming up, jon's family confronts the truth about an accused killer. >> i was totally distraught. >> will they also have to confront the suspect himself? [ male announcer ] you sprayed them. thought they were dead. [ laughter ] [ grunting ] huh? [ male announcer ] should've used roundup. america's number one weed killer. it kills weeds to the root, so they don't come back. guaranteed. weeds won't play dead, they'll stay dead. roundup. no root. no weed. no problem.

>> what did you think? >> i was like, what? i don't understand this. >> jaime explained that he wanted his 65-year-old wife to be happy. since she seemed infatuated with david 18 years her junior and together they were doing a good job raising the grandsons, jaime felt his best option was to step aside on one condition. >> he says i've made the decision but before i do that, i want you to help me find out who this david carson really is. i said, what do you mean? i thought you guys already did a background check. well, yes, but we didn't get satisfactory results. he had ran the social security...

He was not front and center with lights blaring. >> then one night in late 2002, 2 1/2 years after david arrived in oregon, a friend of jon's called to say he caught the tale end of "america's most wanted" and had seen a picture of a man who looked eerily like david. jon immediately called his mom. >> what was your mother's response? >> ridiculous. that's just absurd. she said, honey, we already did a background check on him and he came out clean. >> i said, mom, this is really serious. i can just call them. they can verify. he doesn't even have to know. >> was she game? >> she's like, no, no,...

Their community. >> he's becoming like a big hit in the home, with everybody. >> but not exactly with everybody. there was one member of the family who was never quite comfortable with him. jon himself had doubts about david carson. just who was this guy? was he really who he claimed to be? >> i tried to do some research, trying to look up a name david carson, anything i could find, even a story about some family that died in a car crash in maine. >> and did you have any luck? >> no, i couldn't find anything. >> his father even had a criminal background check conducted on david carson, and tha...

They also met up with him a couple of times in other cities over those years. and from letters he wrote to his parents, it's clear they were in on the plot from the beginning. in one he wrote, like mom said, try out your options. you can always kill yourself later. one of those options was to try to take on the identity of a real person. he suggested someone with aids, cancer or some form of terminal disease. that was particularly disturbing to jaime, who, as gordon weaver knew, had had cancer and his son, who is hiv positive. >> it sent chills through me when i read it. >> jon says gordon wea...