years. david s bones had been recovered from a construction site just a year after he vanished. but how? and why did his body end up there? turns out that location had significance to someone, a woman, who was about to make some alarming claims about the young dad. once again, here s keith morrison. it was good detective work that identified david jackson s earthly remains. what was left of them, but pure chance that the partial skeleton was found at all, as david s brother, mark, found out. they were getting ready to build a walmart and a construction worker came across some bones. reported it, they went out and dug up a bunch of bones. and they sat in a morgue for 15 years. sat there all those years, even as those who loved david held out a shred of hope that he was alive, somewhere. as far as i know, he was disappeared. he was missing. but now detective velasquez had a hard truth to tell. david jackson was dead. not missing. and the way he had been hidden made it perfectly
what we consider a jail house snitch. and he came forward and stated that michael wolf told him he had fabricated the entire story about barbara participating in the murder of david jackson. a particular jail house snitch who s well-known, the da, said mostly for the false information he provided. still, after three years in jail it was enough to get barbara besides, barbara was at home in arizona the night of the murder. how does he know that? a phone bill from her mother s home placing calls to her home in arizona that night when nobody else could have been there. what s a phone bill of that age doing lying around somewhere where it can be grabbed for evidence by the defendant? the father was a meticulous record keeper. what s to say that wasn t an answering service that picked it up. michael wolfe testified in their first deposition that they had no answering machine. could have been someone else in the home. we questioned mr. wolfe about that and he said nobody was
smile on his face, he s combing his hair, he s putting on his cologne and david jackson left the apartment at that point. that was the last that any of his friends saw him at that point. what really happened in the motel? wolfe said he hid in the bathroom when david arrived. barbara answered and he was glad to see her. he said, they walked in, sat down on the edge of the bed, and barbara had a stun gun. and barbara hit david with the stun gun. but the stun gun malfunctioned. so wolfe stepped out of the bathroom with his gun. he said, so i had the gun wrapped in a towel, and he showed me like this, i picked the gun up and fired one shot, and about that time, harry britton came into the room and said, he s not dead yet, he s still breathing, shoot him again, so he said, i shot him again and that shot killed him and they put david s body in the back of harry s vw and transported it to the site where they had already pre-dug the grave so all they had to do was lay his body in there
suggested barbara had a much more practical motive. he was offered a 15-year plea bargain. to take 15 years and tensify whoever his accomplices might be. there was an option at that point to maybe get that 15 years back. in other words, wolf would sellout barbara any way he could to get a reduced sentence. of course, there s the uncomfortable fact that the two unprompted confessions he d made to his ex-wives, confessions in which he d portrayed barbara as a sort of black widow intent on having david killed. well, there are two versions that he gave to each of those ex-wives. the stories were not entirely consistent, he said. besides, he said, barbara was at home in arizona during the night of the murder. how does he know that? a phone bill from her mother s home placing calls to arizona that night. what s a phone bill of that age doing lying around somewhere where you could grab for evidence by the defendant? her father was a meticulous record keeper. what s to say it w
one in the middle? i had no doubt in my mind that she was the catalyst. barbara meanwhile maintains her innocence, claims there was a certain reason michael wolf lied about her that way. it was pay back, she said, for something that happened when they were married. and here came another one of those odd stories. earlier there was the one suggesting drug running on david s delivery truck. now a story about michael and gun running. i was putting away laundry one day and i saw a bulge in a dress shirt pocket, and there was quite a bit of money there. and when he got home from work that night i confronted him on it, and he told me that he was doing gun runs. barbara said she told police about wolf s alleged gun running. and he got mad and he even told a cellmate of his, that s it. interesting wolf hasn t commented, but keith celtzer, barbara s defense attorney