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Within minutes of each other. one of those calls was to a target store, one was to a pager, one was to a boarding house. he called that last number, asked if anybody there knew a guy named schreiber. and the landlady said, nope. but there was one a tenant named schrauben, she said, could that be the man the detective was looking for? >> brett schrauben. >> reporter: jack tracked him down to a distant suburb in the mojave desert. right there parked in the drive way was a 1999 pickup truck and a sea-doo, just what the anonymous bartender said. >> there was a huge break for us. we now have the na...

Pager, one was to a boarding house. he called that last number, asked if anybody there knew a guy named schreiber. and the landlady said, nope. but there was one a tenant named schrauben, could that be the man the detective was looking for? >> brett schrauben. >> reporter: jack tracked him down to a distant suburb in the mojave desert. parked in the drive way was a 1999 pickup truck and a sea-doo, just what the anonymous bartender said. >> there was a huge break for us. we now have the name of somebody that's involved in jack jessee's murder. coming up -- >> often people throw away valuable ...

Time. he immersed himself in sandra's old phone bills. seized by detective wyatt years before. >> what i did is i went through every telephone call on those phone records looking for somebody related to this case. there had to be some communication. >> hit anywhere? >> yeah. >> reporter: what dove found that had been overlooked before was a cluster of calls not long before the murder, all short, within minutes of each other. one of those calls was to a target store, one was to a pager, one was to a boarding house. he called that last number, asked if anybody there knew a guy named schreiber. a...

Schrauben's garbage. >> so what did they tell you when you came up with that idea? you're crazy. >> i think their first idea was i'm really starting to lose it now, i want to dig through somebody's trash. >> reporter: so faithfully, once a week on gar back pickup day, dove got up at daybreak and made the hour-long adjourn tee to brett's neighborhood, where a trash truck used just for schrauben's garbage brought it to a nearby parking lot. >> we'd have the truck dump the trash in somewhat of a pile here, regardless of the size. >> right on the tarmac? >> right on the tarmac. scatter everything ...

Number, how often would that pop up? >> i think the average we figured out was about 24 times in a billing cycle about a month. anywhere from every day to every other day. >> almost every day? >> every day, correct. it was almost like going through a crime scene and finding pieces of evidence. it's an excitement that you realize, this is going to work. we are going to find what we're looking for. >> reporter: but there was yet again a problem. schrauben's phone was in someone else's name. and to get a wiretap, dove would have to prove that he was the primary user. how would he do that? >> what...