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And there that mike keeps changing his story. i think it's just psychotic. i think he -- it's just psychotic for the things that he has said. i was 21 back then. i was very, like -- i don't think i could plan much, you know? i mean, i'm not stupid, but i'm not that smart, you know? >> reporter: no, said barbara, it was all ex-husband michael wolfe's doing. his guilt, she said, made sense of his strange behavior during their time in arizona, particularly the weekend david disappeared. a weekend when barbara says her ex-husband was not with her at home. >> he would always go on business trips. a...

The price. >> that i was -- yeah. >> reporter: interesting, if true. wolfe hasn't commented, but keith seltzer, barbara's defense attorney, suspected wolfe had a much more practical motive. >> michael wolfe was initially offered a 15-year plea bargain to take 15 years and testify against whoever his accomplices might be. >> reporter: sure. >> and, lo and behold, a week after the jury convicts him of first-degree murder, there was an option at that point to maybe get that 15 years back. that was his motivation. >> reporter: in other words, said barbara's attorney, wolfe would sell out barbara a...

>> and i said, "can we please do this one more time?" and she comes back and she goes, "honey," she says, "i was wrong the first time." she says, "this person is anywhere between 5'9" and 6'1." i said, "oh, my gosh, i think i've hit pay dirt." >> reporter: she got dna from david's mother, waited for a lab to compare the samples. and ten days later detective velasquez called the testing facility. >> she comes to the phone and she says to me, "well, i sure hope you're sitting down." i said "why?" "you got a 100% match." oh my gosh. i said, "what?" because i'm not believing that i'm hearing what ...

Bunch of bones. >> reporter: and put the bones somewhere and forgot all about it. >> they were found about a year after he disappeared and they sat in the morgue for 15 years. >> reporter: sat there all those years, even as those who loved david held out a shred of hope that he was alive somewhere. >> as far as i know, he was disappeared. he was missing. >> reporter: but now, detective velasquez had a hard truth to tell. david jackson was dead, not missing. and the way he had been hidden made it perfectly clear, he had been murdered all those years ago, most likely before his friends or family...

She knew david was out there, somewhere. >> i wrote letters to oprah winfrey. i wrote them to "america's most wanted". and then i thought, "okay, maybe i can have the semis put a picture of him on the back of the semis." so i got a list of all the big trucking companies and did all the letters. but it was -- it took me a long time to finish any letter about him because i didn't want the ending to be like i thought it was. >> reporter: it was, she said, a horrible limbo. a little piece of her still hoping for good news, part of her mourning a loss. >> i found a therapist right away. she said ta...