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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 did was connected all the people back in 1998 that were associated with brett schrauben. >> what did you think? >> this is too good to be true, i thought, good things were going to happen. somebody's back on our side again. >> reporter: with this evidence, dove was able to get a judge to approve a wiretap on brett schrauben's phone. then as dove waited for his wiretap to go into effect, he conti...

And they all lived within a couple of blocks of each other in homes sandra helped purchase with jack's insurance money and savings. >> when everything was said and done, she got close to $700,000. >> reporter: and as the months slipped past, leads failed to connect, the investigation hit one dead end after another. wyatt was promoted out of homicide. the case bounced from the placentia pd to the orange county's sheriff's department, where before long it became a case to avoid, toxic, an unsolvable career killer. so five years after his brother's murder, when david jessee met a detective named ...

"mousetrap." a little ball on its track. the tiny taunting mice which, unless every lever works in unison, will not be caught. and how often things go wrong to allow the mice to get away. so odd that what really happened could so eerily mimic a children's game. >> oh how nice! >> reporter: these are the people it happened to, the jessee clan of orange county, california. they vacation together -- >> i'm tired, i'm ready to go home. >> reporter: shared birthdays -- >> this one's for bev. >> happy new year! >> reporter: even got together for a monthly game of 10-pins. what these grainy home vide...

And reach inside the door and unlock the it and shut it. i was chicken. i couldn't do it. i called tom. i told tom, the door's locked. and he said he would call his mom and get back to me. >> reporter: and according to schrauben, tom called back within minutes with a backup plan. >> he told me his mom was going to go out that night and that they needed it to happen tonight because his mom can't take it anymore. he said we didn't do it tonight, his mom was going to do it. >> reporter: they returned that night about 9:00. schrauben's stor by was he dropped his friend off at the house and drove a...

>> like the whole night 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 bo...