do you have one that got away? he s my first love. the guy who disappeared. except, in her case, he really disappeared. he s going to call me in a couple days. he never called. his family, in agony. i called everyone from oprah winfrey to america s most wanted . a rookie detective finally broke the case. i said, oh my gosh. i think i hit pay dirt. a sweet strange phone call revealed a secret. david needed needed to be gotten rid of. then we got the real story. a bombshell revelation. was she really a believed ex? i always love david. or just maybe a black widow? barbara britton is in the middle. hello and welcome to dateline . four years, judy carlson lived in the most painful kind of limbo. her son david had disappeared without a trace. the case went unsolved. sitting called for more than a decade before rookie detective donna velazquez was assigned to investigate. digging into david s past, she uncovered a twisted tale of love gone bad. and
he s gonna comey in a couple of days, he never called. his family in agony. america s most wanted. a rookie detective finally broke the case. i said oh my god. a strange phone call revealed a secret. david needed to be gotten rid of. a bombshell revelation. was she really a bereaved acts? i always loved him. or just maybe a black widow? she is in the middle. hello and welcome to dateline. for years judy carlson lived in a most painful kind of limbo, her son david had disappeared without a trace. the case went unsolved, setting cold for more than a decade before a detective was assigned to investigate. she uncovered a twisted tale of love gone bad and a grizzly family secret. the detective still needed to know what motive was at the heart of the crime. here s keith morrison with buried secrets. it s a strange thing that happens among the here in coastal florida. things have a way of coming up. things buried in the ground in the past. or both. it was
that was consistent with the investigation. along with that story came out sounded like a motive. david disappeared, remember, as he was preparing for a visit from his five year old son, john. they decided that david need 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 click for me all of a sudden. i said, wow. that s over tell custody. that s why he s not here today. that was the motive? that was the motive. that was wolfe 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 arrest. in october, 2004, of michael wolfe. now living in ohio. but an arrest is not a conviction. and as michael wolfe cooled his very sober heels in no ohio