there he agreed to come meet barbara. woman who wept tears of love for her long lost david. who profess to have healthy torch all those years. was the very same woman, said wolfe, who called david on the phone and enticed him to go to that motel room. to be killed. they needed to use barbara as their lure, because david still had feelings for. barbara evidence? david had a roommate, reported journalist stephen kemp. and that roommate her david take a phone call before he went out that night. he was pretty sure it was woman on the phone. david takes a phone, goes into his room. comes out a little while later. he s all spruced up. ready to go out. he s got a smile on his face. he s calling his here. but in on his cologne. david jackson left the apartment. and at that point, that was the
from the place where he lived. surfaced just a year after he 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, she says, no it is looking like he is about five foot nine. still, the last had a hunt that she had finally found david jackson, and she person can give up on a hunch. i said, can we please do this one more time. she comes back and, says i was wrong the first, time this person is anywhere between five foot nine and six foot one. i said, oh my god. she got dna from david s mother, waited for a lab to compare the samples. ten days later, the effective velazco is called the testing facility. she calls me on the phone, she says aldosterone, i say why. you don t have 100 percent
limbo. her son david had disappeared without a trace. the case went unsolved. sitting called for more than a decade before rookie detective donna velazquez was assigned to investigate. digging into david s past, she uncovered a twisted tale of love gone bad. and a grizzly family secret. but the detective still needed to know what motive was at the heart of this crime? here is keith morrison with buried secrets . it s a strange thing that happens among the boggs and marshes. the soft soil here in coastal florida. things have a way of coming up. things buried in the ground, in the past. or both. it was july, 2003. beaches quite. snow birds back up north. so no one notice at first when inland, a little, in a town called pembroke pines, where donna velazquez, just three months a detective. a rookie, really.
testifying against barbara. didn t go well. the blow came to me when he said what am i getting in return? what will my sentence be reduced to? now the state reassessed its options. i think, with any case, you are taking a 50/50 chance. the lack of forensics, the lack of physical evidence, the jury wants to see but most importantly, again, the fact you have a codefendant who is giving the testimony, which was the foundation of this prosecution who wanted something in return. the people who conducted the investigation, you know, deep down in their guts are sure that she was at the center of it? did you also sink think so? when i think as a person and but i think as a prosecutor i have to keep them separate. and while i may have believed that barbara was a full participant in this, what i can prove is totally different. so, you made an offer? we made an offer. barbara britton was offered two more years of house arrest and eight years of probation. she would avoid trial, bu
but of course, the detectives couldn t talk to barbara s father about abuse or murder. or anything else. harry britton had been dead for years. but barbara had more information for the detective she. recalled a troubling conversation she had with david. at the time, said barbara, david was working for coca-cola. delivering the product. he told me that someone was placing drugs on his coca-cola truck. and through his route, they were being taken off of the truck. i said, wow. that s pretty serious. she says, yes. interesting. very. to detective velazquez, that sounded like a made up story. almost as if she was trying to