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>> like it happened all over again. >> that one juror, you know, i saw her. i went and talked to her. >> what did you say? >> i said she was an idiot. >> it was certainly difficult for me. it was far more difficult for the family. >> murray promised the family justice. spent two years putting a new case together. and just weeks before trial, he got a call. it was from tom's attorney saying his client was ready to cut the apron strings and testify against his mom. >> there's no way that we ever suspected that tom aehlert would ever turn on his mother. he was known to be a mama's boy. >> but a m...

I said put a call in now to the phone. i heard him answer the phone. i was able to say that was his phone. he talks on it. we put the phone in his hand. >> but as they continued to sift through trash week after week, they found something even more important than the phone bill. something quite unexpected. this day planner. >> from the years '96, '97, and 1998. >> what were the chances of that? here six years later was the day planner for 1998, the year jack jessee was murdered, crucial evidence, tossed in schrauben's garbage. >> a treasure we didn't expect to find, but what that day planner di...

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. it really was. you're 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 case had g...

The person had used a back door or a window to enter the residence that night. that was significant in that this person had specific details unknown to the general public about the murder of jack jessee. >> most of the tipster's information was frustratingly vague like a riddle, yet another game to be played. there were two killers, though he gave no names. one had a knife, the other had the getaway car. both worked at a big box department store. the man who told the story in the bar that day had been the driver of the car, and with the blood money, he bought a truck and a sea doo. but on the ...

Be near her son tom. and soon her daughter followed, too. and they all lived within a couple blocks of each other with homes sandra helped purchase with jack's insurance money and savings. >> when everything was said and done, she got about $700,000. >> >> and as the months slipped past, leads failed to connect, and the investigation hit one dead end after another, and wyatt was promoted out of homicide. the case bounced from the p.d. to the orange county sheriff's department where before long it became a case to avoid. killer. until five years after his brother's murder when david jessee met ...