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Scattered everywhere. sitting on top of the pile were the records from the childrens first set of trusts, the one only debbie controlled. >> there was $166,000 in those accounts. >> the investigators in hanford now focused hard on dave, searched his home several times, carted off lots of stuff including a stun gun which, it turned out, he bought a month before debbie disappeared. he told detectives it was for home protection for his daughters and girlfriend mary. >> he never discussed it with ma...

>> though, what the jury thought, no one could say. then there was inevitably a conversation about whether or not dave would testify. >> i told them i wanted to testify. >> an idea daves attorney did not like one bit. >> dave is a combative individual, he is prideful, he is offended easily. >> he thinks he is smart and hates for anyone to think he is not smart. he would be perfect fodder for a trained prosecutor. >> and so dave held his tongue in court. he saved his story for us. so you dont thi...

This is staying connected with xfinity to make moving... simple. easy. awesome. stay connected while you move with the best wifi experience and two-hour appointment windows. click, call or visit a store today. it was a frustrating summer back in 2006 here in the farmlands of californias central valley. the purple ribbon search teams came up empty though they looked everywhere for weeks. police named dave hawk a person of interest. he seemed to have an alibi. all three kids were with him in his...

Bridge. >> my point was they havent looked for her. if someone had thrown her off a bridge it would have floated downstream. they didnt look anywhere. >> so did you throw her off the bridge. >> no. i didnt throw anybody off a bridge. >> they made a huge deal about something he supposedly said to his girlfriend about dave. dave said we wont be rid of that [ bleep ] until shes dead. >> well, i might have, but i dont remember that. it certainly does not mean that im going to go kill somebody. >> th...

>> but chelsa has been and is her fathers staunchest defender. >> why do you think your siblings have chosen the other path? >> i think theyre just very upset by what happen and their relationship was not as close to my dad. they were not home or not awake when i was awake. and they were not around him the next day like i was around him. >> chelsa says dave was acting perfectly normal the day after whatever happened, happened. no odd behavior, nothing to suggest he had been up all night committi...

Of public opinion it looked bad for dave hawk as his murder trial approached in hanford, california. dennis peterson and mark coleman were daves attorneys. >> this guy allegedly stealing from his kids, saying bad things about this sympathetic victim and all these things being widely played in the press. >> if there ever was a case for change of venue, this must be it, said the defense. after all, almost everybody seeped to have heard the accusations about dave and every time he had a court appea...

>> i dont believe he would be capable of doing something like this. >> then they started poking around in the relationship between debbie and her ex-husband and there some curious things began to emerge. for example, in the months before debbie disappeared dave took debbie to court and she was fighting back. this was debbies attorney. >> the issues she was dealing with were custody and support. >> dave asked the court for a reduction in $553 a month child support payment. why? because he claimed...

Arrived at the house, said d.a. investigator aaron lebleu, somebody killed debbie. >> we kept up hopes, obviously, for the familys sake, but it was clear she was not alive based on the crime scene. >> investigators poked around debbies life history looking for clues. >> she was very talkative, friendly, likable. she was kind of the life of the the party. >> this is debbies sister, diane, who recalled how friends set her up on that blind date years ago. >> firecracker. >> he was the date, dave ha...

But one of them was not the d.a. >> we kept pushing and pushing and we kept sitting back. >> did the cops have it wrong? dave hawks longtime pastor thought so. coming up -- >> this person who is portrayed as such a monster just simply isnt. >> another side of an accused killer, when "dateline" continues. what bad back? advil is... relief thats fast. strength that lasts. youll ask... what pain? with advil liqui-gels.

It was an ex-boyfriend. >> of course, investigators say they did look into that and other leads, too, but they all came back to dave. and one primary motive. so some cross-examination. prosecutors said you killed your ex-wife because she was going to expose your embezzlement of the childrens trust funds. were you afraid your father was going to find out what you were doing with that money with the trust fund? your father who lovingly put the money into the trust fund before you siphoned it out. ...