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She was the one who found him. >> reporter: back at the station, wyatt interviewed all of jack's relatives, 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 in the jessee clan, she said, a teddy bear of a man, well liked, well to do. >> jack was a very, very loving person who doted ...

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. >> the information that he provided would blow the case wide open. >> until something slammed it shut again when "dateline" continues. eline" continues. these are real people, not actors, who've got their eczema under control. with less eczema, you can show more skin. so roll up those sleeves. and help heal your skin f...

"shakespeare in love" won the oscar. monica lewinsky was freshly famous. it was a sweltering august night, hottest of the year, when cheryl deedham got a strange call from her dad, jack jessee. >> i was getting ready for bed and my phone rings and it's my dad on the phone. >> what time was this? >> 9:20. >> reporter: he was worried about his wife sandra. she was missing. >> what did he think had happened? >> he thought she may have got in an accident or something. >> reporter: she'd run to this nearby mall on a quick errand, said cheryl's dad, but was gone so long. would cheryl please find her...

I believe there was a del taco place. there he went inside to clean himself up. >> the information he provided, if we could corroborate what he said, would blow the case wide open. >> police questioned schrauben's friend. he denied everything. he said he wasn't in the car and he didn't kill jack jessee. no evidence that he was involved at all. police let him go. investigators focused on building their case against tom and sandra by documenting money transfers, phone calls, air travel. so when you add all that together, what'd you think? >> i thought we were starting to put together a pretty go...

Story. >> reporter: schrauben described the whole affair on tape, laid detail. anatomy of a murder. the conspiracy was launched with a phone call from tom. >> he told me he'd offer $50,000 to kill his dad. >> reporter: he said he met with sandra in a parking lot. she gave him a $5,000 deposit. >> she wanted jack dead and she wanted it at the house and to look like a robbery. she told me she would leave for x amount of time and that's when it would need to be done. >> reporter: schrauben said he hired his good friend, a local drifter, to be the getaway driver. and on the afternoon of august 13t...