she wasn t anywhere near florida when david disappeared. i was in arizona in the apartment. i was nowhere around here. and lacking any further evidence, the detective was the man barbara was ater unless married to at the time knew something, michael wolf. a little checking revealed wolf had been married seven times. number six, a woman named nancy graham lived in alabama. she called her. i told her, i m investigating the disappearance of david jackson. and she said to me, how much evidence do you have against him. and i said i can t discuss the evidence with you but i can tell you that it s enough for me to put him away right now. i was just totally bluffing. i had really nothing. i m just throwing it out there,
and right in the middle of preparations he vanished? it didn t make sense but the days turned into weeks, months, middle. hello and welcome to dateline. years. not a sign of david the police for years, judy lived in the most painful kind of limbo. her son david disappeared without a trace. went on to cases but his mother the case went unsolved, sitting cold for more than a decade never let up. until the rookie detective was she knew david was out there assigned to investigate. somewhere. on to america s most wanted digging into david s past, she and then a picture of him in the uncovered a twisted tale of love back and i got a list of all the gone bad and a grizzly family big trucking companies that did all the letters but it was it secret. but the detective still needed took me a long time to finish to knowte what motive was at th any letter about him because i heart of this crime. here s keith morrison with didn t want the ending to be buried secrets. like i thought it was. i
barbara britton, the woman who sobbed at the mere mention of jackson s name was in jail awaiting trial for killing him, exactly where barbara belonged said the detective. she made it happen, she was the instigator. she was in the one in the middle. i have no doubt in my mind she was the innocence, claimed there was a reason michael wolff lied about that happened while they were married. here came another odd story. earlier, you remember 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
his mother s lingering hope for his return. and apparently an ex wife s what ifs. are you seriously thinking, maybe some day i ll get back together with him? when it s your first love you always think, wow, what if. strange how things turn out. barbara had moved back to florida, remarried again. had a daughter. took a job at walmart and still held a candle for david even as he lay under the ground practically next door to the very walmart where she worked. what did that do to you? it s an eerie feeling that he was in that area that i didn t even know about. such an odd consequence. too odd maybe? time for a chat. the detective called barbara. got herself invited over to barbara s house. barbara seemed to have no
collected what he could find and put them in a trash bag and then went back to barbara britton s family house and put the bones out in the trash in a plastic bag. the story seemed to tell it all and cast barbara britton in a leading role. and once she heard that story, the detective was convinced that barbara determined to keep david away from their son was a full partner in his murder. what are the chances that either michael wolf or harry britton forced her to take part in this scheme. forced? yeah. you don t have to worse a willing participant. and you believe she was willing. yes. the detective couldn t help remembering what barbara told her when she heard that david s bones had been identified. strangely enough, the first thing she said to me was how many bones do you have? come on. she had participated in retrieving those bones and they thought they had gotten them all