some lawyers and see what we have to do. and that was it. the two divorced in 1985. david arranged weekend visits with john. how were they together? oh, wonderful. johnny just clung to him. they loved each other. and they all moved on. a couple of years later, barbara married again, michael wolff, an ex-military man like her dad, about the same age as her dad, too. your dad and your new husband probably saw eye-to-eye a lot. they sure did. they had a lot in common. they would talk a lot. wolff took barbara and john to live with him in arizona, but david wanted to be a part of his son s life, so he traveled out west to see the boy. he went up there with a friend of his and they saw johnny for three days. i got pictures of johnny in like the old western town and everything. and maybe it was something about the distance, said barbara. david and i became very good friends when i was out in arizona and we used to talk a lot. in fact, what she felt deep
years of probation. she would avoid trial, but she had to plead guilty to accessory after the fact in david s murder. meaning she acknowledged knowing about the crime but only after it occurred, something she d always denied. you ve got to remember i had the option to go to trial and take it. it s just taking a chance for 12 to 14 other jurors who would hear a story about a control freak who very cleverly manipulated men to it get them to do this awful thing. right. they already know what you re there for, so they re already going to have some opinion. even though she accepted the deal barbara was not happy. true, there was no prison time but she was a felon now. you have a title over your head. it s life changing. it s very life changing. do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and
bones, almost as an order. wolfe came back to florida. he said he went out there in the middle of the night, collected what he could find, put them in a trash bag, and went back to barbara britton s family s house and put the bones out for the trash in a plastic bag. michael wolfe s story seemed to tell it all and to cast barbara britton in a leading role. and once she heard that story, detective velasquez was convinced, barbara, determined to keep david away from their son, was a full partner in his murder. what are the chances that either michael wolfe or harry britton forced her to take part in this scheme? forced? yeah. you don t have to force a willing participant. and you believe she was willing? yes. the detective couldn t help remembering she said what barbara told her when she heard
something was wrong. and i knew it. 15 years later, detective donna velasquez relived that puzzling time. david s ex-wife, barbara, by then remarried and living in arizona, as she told detective velazquez, got a call from david s worried mother. barbara said she wasn t worried, not then. i thought, okay, he was was with one of his girlfriends. and she was like, no, we re doing a missing person report. and i said, no, he s going to call me in a couple of days, i know he is. he s going to call me in a couple of days. and he never called. he never called. one day turned into the next. police, family, everybody tried to find him. couldn t. started look, searching. looking through pipes, on little dirt roads, anywhere. if you see a car that looked like his go by, you d do a u-turn and chase it. how long did that go on? that went on until they found his car.
to reveal everything, including the accomplice he said led david straight into the ambush. here again is keith morrison. in november of 2007, the man who shot david jackson to death was found guilty of the crime and sent to prison for the rest of his life. but a couple of days after he was sentenced, wolfe sent out word that he was ready to tell the rest of the story. sure, he said, he was the trigger man and yes, his father-in-law was determined to get rid of david permanently. but to set their trap, to lure david to the kill site, the motel, they needed bait. and that bait, said wolfe, was barbara. barbara who did not require persuasion. quite the contrary, said mr. wolfe. barbara britton is in the middle. from what i was able to learn about david, he would have never gone to that hotel room to meet harry britton.