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>> 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 protection for his daughters and mary. >> he never discussed it with mary and the children. they did not know it existed. >> they couldnt find anything to connect the stun gun to the crime but it was odd. they also took his computers, of

Like the time he said to a friend, if i was a bad guy, i would throw somebody off a 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 fing bitch until he is dead. >> i might have. that doesnt m...

To the scene of an apparently violent abduction. his own daughter who spent the day after the abduction with dave told police it couldnt be him. >> 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. her attorney. >> the issues she was dealing w...

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. >> i really dont like the way you are characterizing the...

Crouch. >> oh, no. why are they putting it in? i thought it was harmful. there was a conversation about whether or not dave would testify. >> i told them i wanted to >> coming up -- dave hawk speaks out and so does the jury. with the #1 name in flea and tick protection. frontline plus. trusted by vets for nearly 20 years. before people invite something they want to know who you are. were almond breeze. and we only use california-grown blue diamond almonds in our almondmilk. cared for by our fami...

>> buthelsa 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 happen, no odd behavior, nothing to suggest he had been up all night committing a ...

He didnt. >> and when he arrived in the 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 w...

They are on a witch hunt. >> whatever they were on, they couldnt find the evidence to arrest him. dave remained a free man, something that made his own son, conrad, very nervous. >> my suspicion was growing stronger and stronger. >> conrad told the police about the night after his mother was found missing his dad was sharing a bottle of wine with his girlfriend. >> i didnt want to jump to conclusions but at the time i thought my father and his girlfriend had really poor taste. its like so true. ...

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, if anything ever happens to me you know where to look. >> dave said that choking thing just never happened. that he was never violent with her. >> ive never choked anybody. >> things settled down eventually, though there was always some dispute and the things conrad said he heard his dad say about his mom. >> awful. she needs a taste of her own medicine. shes going to get hers. shes g...

>> did it work? listen to prosecutor larry crouch. >> oh, no. why are they putting it in? i thought it was harmful. there was 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 up ended 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 c...