big things are happening for the jackson family. a couple days later, she posts again, do you ever hear such great news in the morning that you can t stand it? or something like that. and her friend responded saying, oh. jake is gone. stephanie seem to be treating the sudden absence as some sort of opportunity. the prosecutor found that troubling. and she read through the interviews that jake s friends heads given to investigators. and she saw comments like this. it was always pretty tense at the ranch when dave was out there. in fact, she know that no jake was afraid of dave. and taking up jiu-jitsu had not just been for the exercise. so he decided to start taking jiu-jitsu. because he had fear of his brother of moss are trying to do something to head. so he was protecting himself. so that was more strange
reclusive. but it was very obvious that she was a little bit ornery. you can say that. how did that manifest itself? she was super controlling. anytime we try to clean anything up on the ranch. for an instance, there was a building that they were cleaning out that had some couches on it. that were covered in rat feces and they were destroyed. and dave and i were moving them out and she came out and started screaming and yelling at us. that she wanted to keep those couches. and you chalk that up to? what s crazy. [laughs] honestly. that s just how she was. everything she thought didn t leave. and jake sister stephanie? jeremy says there was outside of her that few people ever saw. there is the staff that most, a lot of people knew, which was a very nice lady. but, it seems like there was a
leaving kept changing. and in any of those cities, you couldn t find anybody who had seen him or talk to him? and there was no financial record of him anywhere in those license. correct. since he disappeared, jake had never used a credit card never use the passport. that never gotten a new cell phone. and never visited an atm. and as she piece it altogether, the prosecutor began to wonder if jake had really ever left the 7:11 ranch. it was time to search the land that seemed to have a starring role in this family drama that would be easier said than done. the property that we are talking about was massive they owned some hunting rights in various places up in the mountains. they had a cory across the road they had caves. by spring, she had enough to convince the judge to sign a search warrant. but the prosecutor was born and raised here. and she knew, she had to wait with gunnison and it s
but nothing was matching up yet. it was hard to believe. as tough as that was, she was five feet tall. 97 pounds. and remember, suffering from stage four cancer. about a week before jake was murdered, she had had surgery. david knitted that she couldn t lift a gallon of milk. all the way into july or august from the surgery. without help. investigators didn t think there was any way that she had dragged jake s hundred and 80 pound body down the stairs, outside, and then buried him all by herself. they were certain that she had help. the suspect needle is pointing away from deb and towards stephanie? this entire case. the suspect needle was pointing at stephanie. the motive? the prosecutor said this was all about the 7:11. millions of dollars of valuable ranch land. stephanie wanted it but jake stood to inherit it jake was
may? yeah. for just a second, think about that. i interview a lot of women whose children have disappeared. and they know exactly when the last time they spoke with them was. yeah. to the minute. yeah. but i can t remember when the last time i spoke to them was. right, i would have to look at my calendar. very odd? yes. by now, prosecutor wagner had moved on from odd to possibly criminal. his friends seemed credible. saying jake would not have taken off like that. his family? not so much. we couldn t buy the family s reasoning anymore. deb had said from the beginning that he had left for reno, nevada to do some martial arts fading. and then stephanie would tell friends and family that deb had told her that he was in portland or seattle and the cities kept changing. and the reasons why he s