to reveal everything, including the accomplice he said led david straight into the ambush. here again is keith morrison. in november of 2007, the man who shot david jackson to death was found guilty of the crime and sent to prison for the rest of his life. but a couple of days after he was sentenced, wolfe sent out word that he was ready to tell the rest of the story. sure, he said, he was the trigger man and yes, his father-in-law was determined to get rid of david permanently. but to set their trap, to lure david to the kill site, the motel, they needed bait. and that bait, said wolfe, was barbara. barbara who did not require persuasion. quite the contrary, said mr. wolfe.
meet mr. britton when mr. britton was ten minutes down the road? i mean, david is not a stupid child at 24. why would mr. britton want to see him in a motel? tell them what you know, they demanded. there would be no justice, they told wolfe, unless everyone involved was held accountable. outside the courtroom, david s brother encountered the state s attorney and said he s going to tell you, and he said, he s not going to tell me anything. i saw it in his eyes, he ll tell you. and then we got the real story. in fact, it was just two days later when wolfe finally confessed the true measure of his guilt and gave police firsthand his unedited version of events the night he said they buried david jackson in the
while later, he s all spruced up, ready to go out, he s got a smile on his face, he s combing his hair, he s putting on his cologne and david jackson left the apartment at that point. that was the last that any of his friends saw him at that point. what really happened in the motel? wolfe said he hid in the bathroom when david arrived. barbara answered and he was glad to see her. he said, they walked in, sat down on the edge of the bed, and barbara had a stun gun. and barbara hit david with the stun gun. but the stun gun malfunctioned. so wolfe stepped out of the bathroom with his gun. he said, so i had the gun wrapped in a towel, and he showed me like this, i picked the gun up and fired one shot, and about that time, harry britton came into the room and said, he s not dead yet, he s still breathing, shoot him again, so he said, i shot him again and that shot killed him and they put david s body in the back of harry s vw and transported it to the site where they had already pre
bones, almost as an order. wolfe came back to florida. he said he went out there in the middle of the night, collected what he could find, put them in a trash bag, and went back to barbara britton s family s house and put the bones out for the trash in a plastic bag. michael wolfe s story seemed to tell it all and to cast barbara britton in a leading role. and once she heard that story, detective velasquez was convinced, barbara, determined to keep david away from their son, was a full partner in his murder. what are the chances that either michael wolfe or harry britton forced her to take part in this scheme? forced? yeah. you don t have to force a willing participant. and you believe she was willing? yes.
that was the motive. but was wolf s confession to an ex-wife a true story or just alcohol-fueled bravado? there was no way to know, for sure. but it was enough to at least bring about the rest. in october 2004 of michael wolfe, now living in ohio. but an arrest does not a conviction make. and as michael wolfe cooled his heels in an ohio jail, he professed his innocence to anyone who would listen, including the local police, to whom wolfe sent a letter in which he claimed all he knew of a crime centered on a conversation with his ex-wife barbara s father, harry, a few months before the murder. stephen kamp was a motor with the new palm times and read his letter. all he would admit to was meeting harry at a park, a place where david s bones would later come out of the ground. he said, he pointed over to that plot of land and said, if you needed to bury a body, that would be a good place to do it. and he concluded this letter with, and i don t know if he had listened or not. appar