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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 that he provided would blow the case wide...

>> called scott, they want to talk to him about me. >> about you? >> yeah. >> what are you on right now? >> i'm on my cell phone. >> are you comfortable or no? >> no. >> that little mousetrap ball was making its way through the maze. but after a few days of the game, sandra, tom and brett began to wonder if they were getting played. suspected their phones were tapped. maybe even their houses bugged. >> i want to talk for a couple of seconds -- >> okay. >> no, i'd rather pick you and up and go back to the church or something. >> the church? >> well, just somewhere outside. >> oh, okay. >> away ...

A get your questions answered by awesome experts store. it's a now there's one store that connects your life like never before store. the xfinity store is here. and it's simple, easy, awesome. welcome back. much had changed for the jessee clan in the years since jack jessee had been stabbed to death. his wife sandra had moved to arizona to be near her son, tom. jack's murder investigation, once big news in the little town of placentia, had gone cold. but now there was a new detective on the case and as he began to dig, he uncovered what looked like a clue. a single name scrawled on a slip of...

Me, he says, it's her. >> reporter: not the only time jack said such a thing, it turned out. >> he actually told me, i wouldn't be surprised if the bitch killed me. he said that. >> reporter: so dove picked through all the original files, hoping he might come across something that had been overlooked. and buried inside he found this. a simple two-page report apparently unread by any detective. remember the guy who walked into the bar, the one who told a story about the jessee murder? well, years later when the case had gone cold, the bartender decided to call the placentia cops. an officer too...

And a string of homicide detectives, the jack jessee murder case had become a game to avoid. then one day the whole impossible business was handed off to tom dove. >> i can't tell you how many times that i thought, just move on. give up. move on. >> reporter: there was no hope of any new evidence, of course, like fingerprints or dna. there was just the infuriating puzzle which had become more difficult with each passing year. >> after i reviewed the case, i had no feeling for the family, no feeling for jack jessee. >> reporter: so to get his head in the game, dove met with the people closest t...