killer had confessed to her in horrifying detail. the 15-year-old cold case was now red hot and there was about to be an astonishing new wrinkle. was david s murder a family affair? once again, here s keith morrison. david jackson was murdered the in 1988 in florida. that much detective donna velasquez could say for certain. but the rest? after more than a year of phone calls and late nights, all velasquez had come up with an increasingly complicated web of stories and relationships. david jackson was married to barbara britton, her father, harry, disliked david. barbara went on to become the fifth wife of a man named michael wolfe. they divorced and he later married two more times. that we needed to talk.
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 had been married seven times. number six, a woman named nancy graham, lived in alabama. velasquez called her. i told her, i m investigating the disappearance to have david
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.
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.
xfinity, the future of awesome. welcome back. for 15 years, judy carlson has 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.