about the murder, she insisted, until the penny dropped during a conversation years later with her father. i m like, i wonder what he s doing or i wonder if he s coming back, you know, i wonder where he s at or what happened. and he would just be like, you don t have to worry, you know, he s not around to bother you. what was that like to deal with? very, very rough. you know, it s like, it s my dad. i couldn t accept it. and what satisfaction did it get, you know? did it satisfy him? because it sure didn t satisfy me? still, in december of 2007, it was detective velasquez who got what she wanted. she had worked hard to prove
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 or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth? yes, i do. detective velasquez joined barbara at the sentencing hearing. judge, for the record, david jackson s mother would like to speak. of course. david s mother read an impact statement. barbara, i ve cried endlessly for 24 years. i ve wanted to die myself to be with david. her gaze fixed on the woman her son once loved. you are guilty. michael wolfe is where he should be in prison. your father is where he should be and you would join him one day because that is where you should be.
florida, remarried, again, had a daughter, took a job at walmart, but 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. it s, you know, that he was in that area, that i didn t even know about. such an odd coincidence. too odd, maybe? time for a chat. detective velasquez called barbara, got herself invited over to barbara s house. barbara seemed to have no problem talking about david. she said she cared about him a lot. and i say, well, how is david as a father? well, david became abusive towards johnny physically and emotionally, verbally. wait a minute. this was a whole new wrinkle. up until now, everybody about david s history has been squeak y clean. as an investigator and as a mom, i begin to say, did you
been haunted by the disappearance of her son, david. now, detective donna velasquez was reaching deep into the past for clues. there she found the tale of two love-struck teenagers who married, had a baby, and divorced in quick secession. common sense and an exhaustive internet search were about to lead the investigator to a stunning discovery. here again is keith morrison. it was june 25th, 1988, ft. lauderdale, the day the mystery began. when a young man named david jackson failed to meet his brother, mark, at the airport. it was a gut feeling 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
placing drugs on his coca-cola truck and through his route, they were being taken off of the truck. i said, wow. i said, that s pretty serious. and she says, yeah. interesting. very. to detective velasquez, that sounded like a made-up story, almost as if she was trying to divert suspicion away from someone. an ex-wife would qualify, of course, as a person of interest in this kind of case, but as velasquez and we learned, barbara had an alibi. she wasn t anywhere near florida, she said, when david disappeared. i was not in florida. i was in arizona, in the apartment. i was nowhere around here. and lacking any further evidence, detective velasquez was stalled, dead in the water. unless, maybe the man barbara was married to at the time knew something, michael wolfe. a little checking revealed wolf