one in the middle? i had no doubt in my mind that she was the catalyst. barbara meanwhile maintains her innocence, claims there was a certain reason michael wolf lied about her that way. it was pay back, she said, for something that happened when they were married. and here came another one of those odd stories. earlier there was the one suggesting drug running on david s delivery truck. now a story about michael and gun running. i was putting away laundry one day and i saw a bulge in a dress shirt pocket, and there was quite a bit of money there. and when he got home from work that night i confronted him on it, and he told me that he was doing gun runs. barbara said she told police about wolf s alleged gun running. and he got mad and he even told a cellmate of his, that s it. interesting wolf hasn t commented, but keith celtzer, barbara s defense attorney
increasingly complicated web of stories and relationships. david jackson was married to barbara britton, her father, harry, disliked david. barbara went on to become the fifth wife of a man named michael wolfe. they divorced and he later married two more times. that we needed to talk. but now, finally, one of wolf s ex-wives, a woman named nancy, was sitting with detective velasquez, telling police that she knew everything about what happened to david. can you tell me again? because i know how he was killed and what they did with him. how did she know? according to the ex, michael drank, a lot. every night he would almost down a whole bottle of scotch. and i guess he just needed to talk.
mean, there was an empty lot there, and that s where he buried him. he did not spare the detail, said nancy. and he did tell me he poured some corrosive, and i think it was lye, is what he said over the body. and sure enough, i mean, that was consistent with the investigation. along with that story came what sounded like a motive. david disappeared, remember, as he was preparing for a visit from his 5-year-old son, john. they decided that david needed to be gotten rid of, because they never wanted david to be in johnny s life. david was murdered in cold blood, just to keep him out of his son s life. and boom, it clicked for me, all of a sudden. i said, wow. i said, that s over child custody. that s why he s not here today. that was the motive? 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
and the story wolf told, according to the ex, implicated more than just himself. here s what happened as nancy heard it. wolf and harry britton, barbara s father, rented a hotel room on that long-ago july night and invited david to a meeting there. and when he gets to the hotel, they have a very small conversation and michael shot david in the head. he told me he had to get so drunk to do it, and that the first shot didn t kill him, he had to shoot him again. after which, as nancy relayed the story they did take his car to the airport and left it there. then they took him over to i
there was an option at that point to maybe get that 15 years back. in other words, wolf would sellout barbara any way he could to get a reduced sentence. of course, there s the uncomfortable fact that the two unprompted confessions he d made to his ex-wives, confessions in which he d portrayed barbara as a sort of black widow intent on having david killed. well, there are two versions that he gave to each of those ex-wives. the stories were not entirely consistent, he said. besides, he said, barbara was at home in arizona during the night of the murder. how does he know that? a phone bill from her mother s home placing calls to arizona that night. what s a phone bill of that age doing lying around somewhere where you could grab for