we looked for a place where we could clean himself up. i believe it was a dull top we phone for him to clean himself up. the information that he provided if we could corroborate what he said would blow the case wide open. police questioned schrauben s friend. he denied everything he said he wasn t in the car wasn t at the scene he didn t kill jack jessee. and there was no evidence to indicate that he was involved at all. police southern. go investigators focused on building their case against tom and sandra by documenting money transfer phone calls air travel. so when you had all that together what did you think? i m sure we were going to put together a pretty good case. good enough that murray had tom and sandra arrested. and in the summer of 2000 9:11 years after the murder the mother and son team went on trial for the murder of jack jessee. it was like. or going to my dad s funeral every day. it really. was you know knowing people around you who killed your dad it was
what s the phone had been overlooked before was a cluster of calls who not long before the murder, all short within minutes of each other. one of those calls was to a target store one was to a pager and one was to a boarding house. so he called that last number asked if anybody there knew a guy named schreiber. and the landlady said no. but there was once a tenant name shrub, she said, could he be the man the detectives were looking for? it was brent shrub. shrub? doug tracked him down to a distance aboard in the mojave desert, and right there, parked in the driveway, was in 1999 pick up truck and the sea do just like the anomalous bartender said. this was a huge break for us. we now had a name of somebody that s involved in jack jessee murder. coming up often people throw away valuable evidence.
was on the road almost 15 minutes es she was very, very specific about where she had gone, at what times, and why she had gonh there. reporter: as for cheryl, she told detectives she d do anything to find out what happened to her dad in those 15 minutes she was away from the house. her actions were very, very consistent with somebody who understands, the police are looking at me right now, i know i didn t do anything, i m going to do everything i can and give full disclosure. the day after the jack jessee murder, a guy walked into a bar, sat down on the barstool, and told the bartender a story about how the murder happened, about who did it, about what the motive was. the whole story. but of course that was just a story in a bar. detective wyatt didn t hear anything about it. and as he continued to dig for clues, he hit an unexpected
what times, and why she had gone there. reporter: as for cheryl, she told detectives she d do anything to find out what happened to her dad in those 15 minutes she was away from the house. her actions were very, very consistent with somebody who understands, the police are looking at me right now, i know i didn t do anything, i m going to do everything i can and give full disclosure. the day after the jack jessee murder, a guy walked into a bar, sat down on the barstool, and told the bartender a story about how the murder happened, about who did it, about what the motive was. the whole story. but, of course, that was just a story in a bar. detective wyatt didn t hear anything about it. and as he continued to dig for clues, he hit an unexpected wall. sandra announced she had now helped as much as she could. she was done. i was referred to her attorney and she refused to meet with us again. reporter: same thing happened with sandra s kids, jack s
surgery. sandra told the detectives she d been running a bit of a mercy mission for jack and dawdled too long at the mall. five minutes one direction, five minutes in traffic, maybe i was on the road almost 15 minutes she was very, very specific about where she had gone, at what times, and why she had gone there. reporter: as for cheryl, she told detectives she d do anything to find out what happened to her dad in those 15 minutes she was away from the house. her actions were very, very consistent with somebody who understands, the police are looking at me right now, i know i didn t do anything, i m going to do everything i can and give full disclosure. the day after the jack jessee murder, a guy walked into a bar, sat down on the barstool, and told the bartender a story about how the murder happened, about who did it, about what the