I loved david. Or a black widow . Barbara briton is in the middle. Buried secrets. Thanks for joining us. Im lester holt. For years, the woman in this story lives in the most painful kind of limbo. Her son had disappeared and there wasnt a shred of evidence of what happened to him. She may never have known his fate if not for a quickthinking, rookie detective, whose tools included the internet and some plain old common sense. To solve this case, she would need the help of a killer. Here is keith morrison. Reporter its a strange thing that happens among the bogs and marshes, the low 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 quiet, snowbirds back up north. So no one noticed, at first, what was starting inland a little, in a town called pembroke pines, where Donna Velasquez, just three months a detective, a rookie really, had just been assigned to a brand new cold case unit. The sergeant
Middle. Buried secrets. Thanks for joining us. Im lester holt. For years, the woman in this story lives in the most painful kind of limbo. Her son had disappeared and there wasnt a shred of evidence of what happened to him. She may never have known his fate if not for a quickthinking, rookie detective, whose tools included the internet and some plain old common sense. To solve this case, she would need the help of a killer. Here is keith morrison. Reporter its a strange thing that happens among the bogs and marshes, the low 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 quiet, snowbirds back up north. So no one noticed, at first, what was starting inland a little, in a town called pembroke pines, where Donna Velasquez, just three months a detective, a rookie really, had just been assigned to a brand new cold case unit. The sergeant came into the office and dropped a box of papers right on m
Theyre not saying much in terms of the investigation. Theyre still going through everything, still trying to officially identify these human remains that they have found here on scene. That may take dna but what weve learned is that the rv has been the key piece of evidence, obviously, in all of this. The video, the photo of that, the fbi and police here put out of that rv led to several tips. In fact, one of the tips led fbi to another location here in nashville where they have been all day searching. They believe it is tied to this location and perhaps the person responsible. So the fbi there is on scene in this other location. So that rv, the video of the rv driving through downtown nashville is becoming a key piece of evidence here. The u. S. Attorney here spoke. He talked about how this investigation is taking place, calling it sort of like a puzzle and heres what he said. Its quite a challenge, having been up there seeing that scene. Its like a giant jigsaw puzzle created by a bo
Barbara is in the middle. Buried secrets. Thanks for joining us. Im lester holt. For years the woman in this story lived in the most painful kind of limbo. Her son disappeared and there wasnt a shred of evidence what happened to him. She may never have known his fate if not for a quick thinking detective whose tools were the internet and plain old common sense. To solve the cold case she needed the help of a killer. Heres keith morrison. Its a strange thing that happens among the marshes and the soft soil 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 quiet, snow birds back up north. No one noticed it first what was starting inland a little in a town called Pembroke Pines where donna just three months a detective, a rookie really had been assigned to a brandnew cold case unit. The sergeant came into the office and dropped a box of papers right on my desk and said here, see what you can do with this. I bega