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Another ex-wife told police virtually the same story. >> he told me he shot him in the head. and he told me that he had a silencer on the gun. >> reporter: now she too was called to the stand. that was enough. the jury was out less than a hour. the verdict was guilty. at the sentencing, life in prison, david jackson's family confronted michael wolfe. not just to condemn him, but to ask a question because there was still a piece missing. something that still didn't make sense. what was david doing in that motel room the night they killed him? why did he walk into that trap? >> why would he go t...

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...

And you will join him one day because that is where you should be. in hell. david's brother mark was not at all sure that justice was served. >> if you lose in trial, that's god's will. you can't control that. but i think it should have gone to trial. >> reporter: but his mother? >> there was justice, yes. and she's a felon now for life. she's got to live with all that. i don't. >> every time i get out of bed in the morning, one leg says, "guilty" and the other one says, "felon." >> reporter: and as for the detective who so doggedly pursued the case, who now thinks a murderer got away? >> at f...

Delivering the product. >> and he told me that someone was placing drugs on his coca cola truck, and through his route, they were being taken off of the truck. i said, "wow." i said, "that's pretty serious." and she says, "yeah." >> reporter: interesting. >> very. >> reporter: to detective velasquez that sounded like a made up story, almost as if she was trying to divert suspicion away from someone. an ex-wife would qualify, of course, as a person of interest in this kind of case, but as velasquez and we learned, barbara had an alibi. she wasn't anywhere near florida, she said, when david disa...

Me? >> still, in december of 2007, it was detective velasquez who got what she wanted. she had worked hard to prove what she believed to be true, that barbara was an integral part of the plot to kill david jackson. and finally, now, barbara britton was arrested and charged with murder. now, perhaps, a jury could answer the question. do you believe this woman? a woman whose hands literally shook, whose tears flowed at the mere mention of her departed ex-husband. do you believe the things she said? >> all the time we thought he was -- it's always been -- he's missing. >> "buried clues" returns a...