. >> it said schrauber. that's it. >> that's all it said? >> i thought so, yes. >> but where we he find this schrauber. unearthed one more clue when asked about the friend, sandra said the boys were once work buddies. >> they work together. >> so detective dove crisscrossed southern california searching through the employment records of every target store for a guy named s krschrauber, nobody had ever heard of him. >> we were starting to come to the end of our rope. dead end. >> that was about the time jack's daughter cheryl said she was getting strange packages in the mail from sandra. >> like what? >> bowling bags and ashtrays. just a bunch of weird junk. it kept coming. >> hatred more than i had before. >> sandra seemed to be telling them she'd beaten them, got away with it, won the game. >> we said are we cursed? is there something with this case and it's not going to be solved? >> it's frustrating for him to put all this work in and these people might literally get away with murder? >> patty is tom's wife. they've been together since hi

he called that last number and if anybody there knew a guy named schrauber.he land lady said nope but there was once a man named scrauben. could he be it? >> it was schrauben, not scrauber. >> so he tracked him down. and in the driveway was a pickup truck and the sea doo. just what the bar tender said. >> this was a huge break for us. we now had a name of somebody involved in jack jessee's murder. >>> coming up -- >> often people throw away valuable evidence. >> detective dove finds treasure in trash. >> this is too good to be true. >> when "dateline" continu investigation had been six years of dead ends, bad breaks, blind alleys. now on the trail of a suspect, tom dove was about to start a new game. one where he could write the rule book. but it would be very complicated because dove wanted more than just a getaway drivers, brett schrauben. he wanted the murderer. >> the only way to tie them together was to do a wiretap. >> but wiretaps are difficult to get. dove needed permission from a judge. and to get that, he needed to prove schrauben was still in conta