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His defense attorneys tried to poke holes in what they saw as a purely circumstantial case. would this be enough to sway the jury? here with the conclusion of the story is keith morrison. dave hawk on trial for the murder of his ex-wife debbie did not testify, didnt tell the members of the jury what he was thinking. he had a sinking feeling he knew what they were thinking. >> always blame the ex-husband. it was an awful problem the day his ex-wife disappeared in a trail of her own blood. the n...

Interview room. >> whats going on? >> dave didnt seem to have much of a reaction at all to learning his ex-wife, the mother of his three kids, was missing. >> at this point i have no clue as to where she might be. >> i can tell you what has been going on the last week. >> what did you expect? >> more surprise. any surprise. >> mm-hmm. >> i didnt see that at all. >> of course, people do react in different ways to traumatic news. besides, dave told them he was at home asleep in the early morning h...

>> it was easier to be the mediator than have them yelling at each other on the phone. >> living apart, said conrad. >> mom was happy. all of our lives improved. >> debbie did well enough she was able to buy her own home. >> she could finally start living her life the way she wanted to. >> except there were issues. once she claimed he tried to choke her. >> she said he just looked like a crazed animal and i thought he was going to kill me. and not too long after that she had said to me, you know...

But im being accused of being in another place committing a terrible crime based on financial shenanigans that didnt exist in the first place. >> shenanigans like for example the trust fund for his kids. his father made the terms very broad, said dave, so he could spend the money as he saw fit. any way that would benefit the children. >> the money is to be used for the health, education, support and maintenance of the children. and thats exactly what it was used for and i acted legally in that r...

Convinced themselves dave was responsible. prosecutor crouch would not budge. not yet, anyway. >> were going to wait until we find the body or give the body more time to come up. >> instead, a year after debbie vanished, dave was charged with em bezling, stealing more than $300,000 from his own childrens trust funds. he pleaded not guilty, was released on bail. >> dave, how does it feel to be out of jail? >> and waited for the other shoe to drop. now, imagine this, the police, not to mention mos...

Prosecutor larry crouch offered the jury this theory, that dave snuck out of his house in the middle of the night without waking his sleeping children, maybe even used a ladder to get out of the window, and got someone to give him a ride to debbies house and entered her bedroom. >> i think he tried the stun gun on her and she screamed very loudly and he struck her with something more than once. at that point, i assume he suffocated her. >> then, said the prosecutor, he must have dragged debbies ...

Administered only by dave. >> basically there was supposed to be several hundred thousand dollars in each account, instead there was a couple thousand dollars. he had been living off it up to five years at that point. >> something like $300,000 was missing. dave cried poverty, he bought his girlfriend, mary, a $27,000 lexus, took her on vacation to hawaii and used $60,000 to pay off divorce costs and what he owed his kids from the first set of trusts. here believed detectives was the heart of th...

Conrad told police his dad might have done this. >> i didnt see anything that would disqualify him from being able to carry that out. >> which is why just hours after the kids discovered debbie was missing it was 2:20 a.m. by then. police called dave, woke him up. asked him to drive down to police headquarters for a talk. the phone call was curious, thought investigator madison because dave didnt ask why. >> ive received calls in the middle of the night. my first thought for me is family. whats ...

Wine we raise our glasses and say cheers. it is just a tradition. we were not toasting anybodys anything. >> why have you never been able to persuade conrad of your innocence? >> i dont know. he knows that i was at home the whole time, never left, didnt have any involvement in anything illegal. but hes perhaps angry and needs to fill in the blanks with something. >> maybe he is angry at his dad because his dad killed his mom. >> his dad didnt kill his mom. >> he thinks so though. >> he could be ...

Accusations about dave and every time he had a court appearance purple clad friends of debbie crowded into the public gallery. in fact, during jury selection said attorney coleman he heard jurors tell the judge they had already decided dave hawk was guilty. >> the judge asked them, if i order you to set those opinions aside, can you do it? well, i guess so. >> still, defense application for change of venue was denied as well as the separation of financial charges from the murder charge. defense ...