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Moved to arizona. >> and she was flipping out about it. >> yeah. >> just -- she had to go there. >> reporter: she demanded jack move to arizona too. >> that woman was off her rocker. her tone was just scary. it was like somebody else's voice coming out of her. >> reporter: but surely that wasn't motive enough for murder? and with plenty of suspicion but little else to go on, wyatt spent months poring over sandra and jack's phone records, bank statements, credit card bills, searching to -- well, he didn't know exactly what he was searching for. but he was getting basically nowhere. >> we couldn...

After years of relentless police work, brett schrauben and sandra jessee were arrested for the murder of jack jessee. brett was in jail awaiting trial. but in a devastating blow for jack's loved ones, the judge released sandra citing a lack of evidence. then detectives got a lucky break. someone had a story to tell. and it would send this case into overdrive. once again, keith morrison. >> reporter: sitting in a cell, month after month, can do a lot to alter a person's take on the world. even more so if the inmate is looking at a possible life sentence. and that's when brett schrauben had an e...

In order to lower the trap and catch the mouse. and anywhere along the line there could be a snag. there could be something that we hadn't planned for that could throw this ball completely off the board. >> okay, so what was the plan? what was the nature of your trap, of your mousetrap? >> we believed that if we did something to get these people uptight, if we were able to rattle the tree, if we were able to put some fear into them that maybe the police were on to them. that they would talk about the murder of jack jessee. >> so what was the little piece of cheese you put into that trap? >> we...

Little ball came off the track again. this time it happened at sandra's preliminary hearing. judge ruled there wasn't enough evidence to hold her. she was free to go. >> oh, i sobbed all the way home. i don't know how i made it back to marietta from santa ana. >> reporter: only brett schrauben was to face a murder trial. it was the summer of 2006, eight years after jack jessee's murder. and justice? not yet, if ever. coming up -- finally, the break detectives had been waiting for. >> she wanted jack dead. she wanted it done at the house and make it look like a robbery. >> the information tha...

Despite the fact there was no forensic evidence, his case went to trial. in february 2013 aehlert's jury found him not guilty. would a jury believe tom's story. as jury deliberated and the family waited, there was no euphoria. they knew from bitter experience that anything could happen. >> it's a lot harder this time not knowing what's going to happen. >> on the second day, they got word the jury had a verdict. >> my stomach's in knots. >> i'm shaking. >> we're just really very nervous at this moment. >> 13 years after jack jessee's murder, sandra jessee was found guilty. and finally that litt...