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>> and put the bones somewhere and forgot about it? >> they were found about a year after he disappeared and they sat in the morgue for 15 years. >> sat there all those years, even those that loved david held out a shred of hope that he was alive somewhere. >> as far as i know he was disappeared, he was missing. >> but now detective velasquez had a hard truth to tell. he was dead. not missing. he had been murdered all of those years ago, likely before his friends and family even knew that he was gone, which put a final on his mother's hope for return and apparently an ex-wife's what ifs. >> we...

Dad. i couldn't accept it. and what satisfaction did it get, you know? did it satisfy him? because it sure didn't satisfy 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 belie...

Did it satisfy him? because it sure didn't satisfy 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 alway...

We want to keep the power on for our customers. we want to keep our communities safe. this is our community. this is where we live. we need to make sure that we have a beautiful place for our children to live. together, we're building a better california. >> reporter: barbara britton, the woman who sobbed at the mere mention of david jackson's name, was now in jail, awaiting trial for killing him. exactly where barbara belonged, said detective donna velasquez. she made it happen. she was the instigator as well as just being the one in the

Not entirely consistent, said attorney seltzer. besides, he said, barbara was at home in arizona the night of the murder. how does he know that? >> a phone bill from her mother's home placing calls to her home in arizona that night when nobody else could have been there. >> reporter: and what's a phone bill of that age doing lying around somewhere that can be grabbed for evidence by the defendant? >> the father was a meticulous record keeper. >> reporter: what's to say that wasn't an answering service that picked them up? >> michael wolfe testified in his first deposition that they had no answ...