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months before the murder. stephen kamp was a motor with the new palm times and read his letter. all he would admit to was meeting harry at a park, a place where david s bones would later come out of the ground. he said, he pointed over to that plot of land and said, if you needed to bury a body, that would be a good place to do it. and he concluded this letter with, and i don t know if he had listened or not. apparently he did. if michael wolfe had really not known anything beyond that point, it would get him off the hook and leave it all in the hands of harry britton. so michael was pinning the murder on no one but harry, who have safely dead and could tell no tales. but now detective velasquez believed she had enough evidence to bring michael wolfe back to florida to stand trial for the murder of david jackson. we did the arrest warrant and within a couple of days we were flying out to kettering, ohio,
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
typing and typing and it pops up about a hundred matches. but she was determined. she finally whittled it down to a possible three. one of them really stands out for me. it says, white male, and it says, over 6 foot. david s a tall guy and he s a white male. possibly. those particular bones, just a few, a partial skeleton, turned up during construction of a walmart parking lot not far from the place where david lived. surfaced just a year after david died, had been gathering dust in storage for 15 years. the detective went to see a forensic anthropologist. but when the doctor measured the bones. she comes out and she says, no, she said, it s looking like he s only about 5 9 . but still, velasquez had a hunch that she had finally found david jackson, and she wasn t the sort of person to give up on a hunch. and i said, can we please do
this one more time. and she comes back and she goes, honey, i was wrong the first time, she says, this person is anywhere between 5 9 and 6 1 . i said, oh, my gosh, i think i ve hit paydirt. she dot dna from david s mother, waited for a lab to compare the samples. and ten days later, detective velasquez called the testing facility. she comes to the phone and she says, i hope you re sitting down. and i said, why? you ve got a 100% match. oh, my gosh?! i said, what? because i m not believing that i m hearing what i m hearing. 15 years after he disappeared, david jackson had finally been found. question now was, what happened to him? how did he end up here? coming up, a strange coincidence or was it? it s an eerie feeling, you know, that he was in that area that i didn t even know about. when buried clues continues.