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>> reporter: jack tracked him down to a distant suburb in the mojave desert. parked in the drive way was a 1999 pickup truck and a sea-doo, just what the anonymous bartender said. >> this was a huge break for us. we now have the name of somebody that's involved in jack jessee's murder. coming up -- >> often people throw away valuable evidence. >> detective dove finds treasure in trash. >> this is too good to be true. i thought good things were going to happen. somebody's back on our side again. >> when "deadly conspiracy" continues. it's absolute confidence in 30,000 precision parts. or it i...

Years after the murder, the mother and son team went on trial for the murder of jack jessee. >> going to court was like going to my dad's funeral every day. i mean, it really was. >> being around people that you know killed your dad, it was a ridiculous feeling. you can't even put it into words. just soul-wrenching. >> schrauben testified against them. in court it was argued sandra had a variety of motives for killing jack. she wanted his money before medical bills ate up their savings. and she couldn't bear being away from her son tom. >> do you think the case had gone well? >> i thought the ...

>> reporter: the jack jessee investigation had been six years of dead ends, bad breaks, blind alleys. now on the trail of a suspect, tom dove was about to start a new game, one where he could write the rule book. but it would be very complicated. because doug wanted more than just a getaway driver, he wanted everyone connected to jack jessee's murder. >> the only way we could tie them together in this conspiracy was to do a wiretap. >> reporter: but wiretaps are notoriously difficult to get. dove needed permission from a judge, and to get that, he needed to prove schrauben was still in contact...

Welcome back. after years of relentless police work, bret schrauben and sandra jessee were arrested for the murder of jack jessee. but in a devastating blow to jack's loved ones, the judge released sandra, citing a lot of evidence. then the detectives got a lucky break. someone had a story to tell and it would send this case into overdrive. once again, keith morrison. >> 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 bret schrauben had an epiphany. just days before his mu...

The crime, which was his daughter cheryl. >> the daughter, we had to look at her as a potential suspect. she was the one who found him. >> back at the station, wyatt interviewed all of cheryl's relatives, including his wife sandra. who hadn't been missing at all. she had been out on a shopping trip. >> mrs. jessee came to the station with us said she wanted to help solve the murder of her husband. >> and she told him about life with jack, married 14 years, blended family, four kids between them. jack was the patriarch of the jessee clan, she said. a teddy bear of a man, well liked, well to do....