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>> i think the photographs of tom aehlert and sandra jessee was worth a million words as to the depth of their involvement and how far they would go to conceal what they had done. in their minds they had thought they got away with the perfect crime. >> reporter: meanwhile, dove would hop on flights back to orange county to pressure schrauben's friends for information. he was, of course, relentless. chased down anybody who knew the man. followed one tip to another. until dove finally encountered the man he'd been hunting for years. the bartender who called in the anonymous tip years earlier. >>...

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 continued to go through the trash, he...

>> happy new year! >> reporter: even got together for a monthly game of 10-pins. what these grainy home videos don't show is what is yet to come. which is murder, conspiracy. one branch of the family against the other. a game so twisted, mice so clever that crafting a trap to catch the plotters just might be impossible. to begin with, it was 1998. "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...

Was in moscow for a wedding. the state department says it's seeking access to wheelland now. president trump's first meeting with the leaders since the partial shut down began december 22nd tomorrow. for now back to "deadly conspiracy." welcome back to "dateline extra." i'm craig melvin. detective tom dove had just secured a warrant to wiretap murder suspect brett schrauben's shown, then he learned schrauben was relocating to arizona, a move that threatened to derail the investigation. dove didn't miss a beat, he simply engineered another plan, an elaborate trap requiring the help of nearl...

>> 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 on to them. that they would talk about the murder of jack jessee. >> so what was the little piece of cheese you put into that trap? >> we nailed a simple copy of the newspaper article when jack jessee was murdered anonymously to sandra jessee, tom aehlert, and brett schrauben. the significance of that was they didn't know we knew about brett schrauben. they're going to know something's up. >> reporter: sure enough, as soo...