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>> the game is called mouse trap. the little ball on its track, the tiny 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 awed that what really happened could so eerily mimic a children's game. >> oh, how nice. >> these are the people it happened to. the jessee clan of orange county, california. they vacationed together. >> i'm tired. i'm ready to go home. >> shared birthdays. even got together for a monthly game of ten pin. but what these grainy home videos don't show is what is yet to come. which is murder, cons...

The judge ruled there wasn't enough evidence to hold her. she was free to go. >> i sobbed all the way back home. i don't even know how i make it back to marietta from santa anna. >> only bret schrauben was to face a murder trial. it was the summer of 2006, eight years after the death of jack jessee's murder. and justice? not yet, if ever. coming up, finally the break detectives had been waiting for. >> she wanted jack dead. and she wanted it done at the house and to look like a robbery. >> the information that he provided would blow the case wide open. >> until something slammed it shut agai...

Here's keith morrison. 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 dove wanted more than just the get-away driver, bret schrauben. he wanted everyone connected to jack jessee's murder. >> the only way to tie them together in this conspiracy was to do a wiretap. >> but wiretaps are notoriously difficult to get. dove needed permission from a judge, and in order to do that, he needed to prove schraube...

And anywhere along the line there could be a snag. there could be something 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 mouse trap? >> 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 onto them, that they would talk about the murder of jack jessee. >> so what was the piece of cheese you put into that trap? >> we mailed a simple copy of the newspaper article when jack jes...

Look at the person who reported the crime, daughter cheryl. e >> the daughter, we had to look at her as a potential suspect. she was the one who found him. >> reporter: back at the station, wyatt interviewed all of jack's relativees, including cheryl, and jack's wife sandra, who hadn't been missing at all, just out on a shopping trip. >> mrs. jessee came to the station with us voluntarily, told us she would cooperate, wanted to help us solve the murder of her husband. >> reporter: she told him about life with jack, married 14 years, blended family, four kids between them. jack was a patriarch ...