do you have one that got away? he s my first love. the guy who disappeared. except, in her case, he really disappeared. he s going to call me in a couple days. he never called. his family, in agony. i called everyone from oprah winfrey to america s most wanted . a rookie detective finally broke the case. i said, oh my gosh. i think i hit pay dirt. a sweet strange phone call revealed a secret. david needed needed to be gotten rid of. then we got the real story. a bombshell revelation. was she really a believed ex? i always love david. or just maybe a black widow? barbara britton is in the middle. hello and welcome to dateline . four years, judy carlson lived in the most painful kind of limbo. her son david had disappeared without a trace. the case went unsolved. sitting called for more than a decade before rookie detective donna velazquez was assigned to investigate. digging into david s past, she uncovered a twisted tale of love gone bad. and
he s gonna comey in a couple of days, he never called. his family in agony. america s most wanted. a rookie detective finally broke the case. i said oh my god. a strange phone call revealed a secret. david needed to be gotten rid of. a bombshell revelation. was she really a bereaved acts? i always loved him. or just maybe a black widow? she is in the middle. hello and welcome to dateline. for years judy carlson lived in a most painful kind of limbo, her son david had disappeared without a trace. the case went unsolved, setting cold for more than a decade before a detective was assigned to investigate. she uncovered a twisted tale of love gone bad and a grizzly family secret. the detective still needed to know what motive was at the heart of the crime. here s keith morrison with buried secrets. it s a strange thing that happens among the here in coastal florida. things have a way of coming up. things buried in the ground in the past. or both. it was
jail, he professes innocence to anybody who would listen. including the local police. to whom wolfe sent a letter. which he claimed all he knew of a crime centered on a conversation with his ex-wife barbara s father, harry. a few months before the murder. stephen kemp was a reporter with broward palm beach new times and read michael s letter.
all michael would add mitt to was meeting harry near a park over the place where david s bones would later come out of the grounds. michael wolf said that he had basically pointed over to that plot of land and said, well, if you needed to bury a body, that would be a good place to do it. and then he concluded his letter with, and i don t know if he had listened or not. apparently, he did. if michael wolfe had really not known anything beyond that point to get him off the hook. it would leave it all in the hands of harry britton. so, michael was pretty pinning the murder on the one by harry. who was safely dead and could tell no tales. but now detective velazquez believed she had enough
to david. can you tell me again? because i know how he was killed and what they did with him. how did she know? according to the ex, michael drink. a lot. every night he would almost down a whole bottle of scotch. i guess he just needed to talk. and the story wolfe told according to the ex, implicated more than just himself. here s what happened as he heard it. wolfe and harry britton, barbara s father, granted a motel room on that long ago july night. invited david to a meeting there. and when he gets at the hotel, they have a very small conversation. and michael shot david in the head. he told me he had to get so drunk to do it. and that was the first shot didn t kill him. he had to shoot him again. afterwards, as nancy related the story they did take his car to the airport and left it there. then they took him over to, i mean, there was an empty lot there. and that s worth he buried him. he did not spare the detail, said nancy. and he did tell me he poured so