up with was an increasingly web of relationships. david jackson was married to barbara britton. her father disliked david. barbara later married wolfe and they divorced and he married two more times. but now finally one of wolfe s ex-wives, a woman named nancy, was telling her she knew everything about what happened to david. can you tell me again? 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. and the story wolfe told implicated more than just himself.
not entirely consistent, said attorney seltzer. besides, he said, barbara was at home in arizona the night of the murder. how does he know that? a phone bill from her mother s home placing calls to her home in arizona that night when nobody else could have been there. reporter: and what s a phone bill of that age doing lying around somewhere that can be grabbed for evidence by the defendant? the father was a meticulous record keeper. reporter: what s to say that wasn t an answering service that picked them up? michael wolfe testified in his first deposition that they had no answering machine. reporter: could have been somebody else in the house. we questioned mr. wolfe about that, and he said that there was nobody there. reporter: but as the defense prepared for trial, in december of 2010, something changed. there was new evidence discovered. reporter: lani bandell is the prosecutor who inherited the case. and that new evidence was what was consider a jailhouse sn
(sound of drilling) jimmy (shouting): james! brand vo: the world s largest workforce works for themselves. we work for them. quickbooks. backing you. reporter: 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. he was ready to tell the rest of the story. sure, he said, he was the triggerman. 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 david jackson left the apartment at that point. that was the last that any of his friends saw him at that point. reporter: 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, they 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. he said, i picked the gun up and i fired one shot. reporter: 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 says, i shot him again. and said, 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-dug the
michael wolfe. a little checking revealed wolfe had been married seven times. number six, a woman named nancy graham, lived in alabama. velazquez called her. i told her, i m investigating the disappearance of david jackson. and she said to me, how much evidence do you have against him? and i said, i can t discuss the evidence with you, but i can tell you that it s enough for me to put him away right now. i was just totally bluffing. i had really nothing. i m just throwing it out there, you know, fishing that long line, and if something bites, i m reeling it in. and she says, honey, she says, let me call you back. reporter: the minutes ticked by. velazquez waited by the phone. and when nancy called back, what she said blew the case wide open.