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. apparently he did. if michael wolfe had really not known anything beyond that point, it would get him off the hook and leave it all in the hands of harry britton. so michael was pinning the murder on no one but harry, who have safely dead and could tell no tales. but now detective velasquez believed she had enough evidence to bring michael wolfe back to florida to stand trial for the murder of david jackson. we did the arrest warrant and within a couple of days we were flying out to kettering, ohio,
been haunted by the disappearance of her son, david. now, detective donna velasquez was reaching deep into the past for clues. there she found the tale of two love-struck teenagers who married, had a baby, and divorced in quick secession. common sense and an exhaustive internet search were about to lead the investigator to a stunning discovery. here again is keith morrison. it was june 25th, 1988, ft. lauderdale, the day the mystery began. when a young man named david jackson failed to meet his brother, mark, at the airport. it was a gut feeling something was wrong. and i knew it. 15 years later, detective donna velasquez relived that puzzling time. david s ex-wife, barbara, by then remarried and living in arizona, as she told detective velazquez, got a call from david s worried mother. barbara said she wasn t worried, not then. i thought, okay, he was was with one of his girlfriends. and she was like, no, we re doing a missing person report. and i said, no, he s going to call
a year after the murder, they got a call from harry britton. he had learned that they were going to build a new wal-mart there at the corner of where the bones were. where the bones were. and harry told him, you have to come back down here and move the 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. th
you know, he was it was difficult for him. and it was difficult for me. so who was the first person to say, you ought to get a divorce? my dad. how did david take it? he was just kind of like, okay, let s just get i over with? some lawyers and see what we have to do. and that was it. the two divorced in 1985. david arranged weekend visits with john. how were they together? oh, wonderful. johnny just clung to him. they loved each other. and they all moved on. a couple of years later, barbara married again, michael wolff, an ex-military man like her dad, about the same age as her dad, too. your dad and your new husband probably saw eye-to-eye a lot. they sure did. they had a lot in common. they would talk a lot. wolff took barbara and john to live with him in arizona, but david wanted to be a part of his son s life, so he traveled out west to see the boy. he went up there with a friend of his and they saw
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. barbara britton is in the middle. from what i was able to learn about david, he would have never gone to that hotel room to meet harry britton. he would have never gone to that hotel room to meet michael wolfe. he agreed to come meet barbara. the woman who wept tears of love for her long-loved david, who professed to have held a torch all of those years, was the very same woman who called david on the phone and enticed him to g