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>> we had walkie-talkies, and he called on it when it was done and to pick him up. he had blood on his we looked for a place to clean himself up. i believe there was a del taco we found to clean himself up. >> the information he provided, if we could corroborate what he said, would blow the case wide open. >> police questioned his friend. he denied everything. he said he wasn't in the car, wasn't at the scene. he didn't kill jack jessie. so he was allowed to walk. and investigators focused on building their case against tom and sandra by documenting money transfers, phone calls, air travel. >>...

The shock, of course, but one of two shocks for sandra, and to those around her, the second seemed somehow worse. her beloved son, tom, up and moved to arizona. >> and she was flipping out about it. >> yeah. >> just she had to go there. >> she demanded jack move to arizona too. >> that woman was off her rocker. the tone was scary. like somebody else's voice coming out of her. >> surely that was not the motive enough for murder, and with plenty of suspicion, but little else to go on, wyatt spent months pouring over sandra and jack's phone records, credit card bills, statements, searching for --...

So, with that new perspective on the case, doug revisited sandra's interview, hours of mostly useless chatter. >> how many times did you listen to that interview? >> at least ten times. >> and then it jumped out at him, right about here on the tape. sandra is going through slips of paper in her day planner. she looks at one and says. listen to it again. >> this is my son's friend. >> this is my son's friend. one phrase in hours of material, but it got doug's mind racing. if the bartender was right about sandra, could that be the key? he tore through bags of evidence, and there it was, the day ...

Time. he immersed himself in sandra's phone bills, seized by detective wyatt years before. >> what i did was go through every telephone call on those phone records looking for somebody related to this case. there had to be some communication. >> get anywhere? >> yep. >> there was a cluster of calls before the murder, short. one was at a target store, another to a pager, and one to a boarding house. so he called that last number. asked if anybody there knew a guy named schriber and the landlady said, nope. but, there was once a tenant named schrobin. is that the name? >> it was schrobin. >> he ...

There was small piece of note paper with the name, which appeared to me, at that time, to say schreuver. that's all it said. i thought. >> but where would he find this person? he unearthed another clue when asking wyatt about tom's friend, sandra said the boys were once work buddies. so detective doug crossed california looking for employment records at every target store for this name in the employment records. nobody had heard of it. >> we were getting to a dead end there. >> that's when jack's daughter got strange packages in the mail from sandra saying they were