do you have one that got away? he s my first love. the guy who disappeared. except, in her case, he really disappeared. he s going to call me in a couple days. he never called. his family, in agony. i called everyone from oprah winfrey to america s most wanted . a rookie detective finally broke the case. i said, oh my gosh. i think i hit pay dirt. a sweet strange phone call revealed a secret. david needed needed to be gotten rid of. then we got the real story. a bombshell revelation. was she really a believed ex? i always love david. or just maybe a black widow? barbara britton is in the middle. hello and welcome to dateline . four years, judy carlson lived in the most painful kind of 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
dateline. i had a huge crush on him. he had this amazing voice. very gregarious. charismatic. the passion for people he had came through. he was the guy the whole town came up to. morning deejay steven bee. so funny. he had such a great love of music. he s lovable. everyone loves steven b. soon, it was fatally clear not everybody did. they came up on a body floating in the water. shot him one time in the back of the head. it s like this can t be happening. what did happen? the hunt is on. a gleaming yacht. i thought, why did you get on that boat? a scheming businessman, and a missing fortune. you re a multi-millionaire and you don t have any money. from high seas adventure to heart-stopping murder. i don t think i ll ever get another case quite like this. hello. and welcome to dateline. steven b. williams was a man with a golden voice. a former deejay who found fame, fortune, and a wealth of friends. then suddenly, radio silence. steve
people came through. he was the guy the whole town woke up to, morning dj steven b. he was so funny and he had such a great love of music. he s loveable. i mean, everybody loves steven b. but soon, it was fully clear that not everybody did. they came upon a body floating in the water. shot him one time in the back of the head. i felt like i was in some made-for-tv movie. it s like this can t be happening. what did happen? the hunt is on. a gleaming yacht. i thought, why did you get on that boat? a scheming businessman, and a missing fortune. you re a multi-millionaire and you don t have any money. from high seas adventure to heart-stopping murder. i don t think i ll ever get another case quite like this. hello. and welcome to dateline. steven b. williams was a man with a golden voice. a former dj who found fame, fortune, and a wealth of friends. then suddenly, radio silence. steven b had disappeared. detectives would follow a trail of
he s gonna comey in a couple of days, he never called. his family in agony. america s most wanted. a rookie detective finally broke the case. i said oh my god. a strange phone call revealed a secret. david needed to be gotten rid of. a bombshell revelation. was she really a bereaved acts? i always loved him. or just maybe a black widow? she is in the middle. hello and welcome to dateline. for years judy carlson lived in a most painful kind of limbo, her son david had disappeared without a trace. the case went unsolved, setting cold for more than a decade before a detective was assigned to investigate. she uncovered a twisted tale of love gone bad and a grizzly family secret. the detective still needed to know what motive was at the heart of the crime. here s keith morrison with buried secrets. it s a strange thing that happens among the here in coastal florida. things have a way of coming up. things buried in the ground in the past. or both. it was
she s gotta live with all that. i don t. oh my god, every time i get out of bed in the morning, one leg sits guilty, one says fell in. and as for the detective who so doggedly pursued the case who now thinks a murderer got away. at first, i was disappointed. so, i had to make peace with it. when i put my head down on the pillow at night, at the end of the day, she s a felon. mentally, when you are in prison here, do you ever escape that? as for barbara, she spent the remainder of her house arrest and her father s home. that old vw the one that allegedly carried david s body the night he was killed. still kept outside. that s all for this edition of dateline. i m craig melvin. thank you for watching. i m craig, melvin and i m natalie morales, and this is