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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 respect. >> and then since they...

Getting any blood on him, without being discovered. >> so what did happen to debbie hawk? the defense floated this theory. debbie worked in pharmaceutical sales. perhaps a drug addict had gone after the samples she kept in the van. all of the pharmaceuticals in her van were missing. somebody took them. >> that was a ludicrous idea, countered the prosecution. debbie carried very few samples. anyway, if drug theft was behind it why didnt the thief take any jewelry or electronics. no. it seemed to ...

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 mean im going to go kill somebody. >> there was his own son conrad who believed he was guilty and told police he saw dave...

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. it was an awful problem the day his ex-wife disappeared in a trail of her own blood. the number one suspect was him. that is what the police had been saying all along. that is apparently what a great many people thought in hanford, california. even as he sat here as a defendant in a murder case. even though -- ...

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 terrible crime. >> i think they are defending my mom so much, though, that it is like ...

As such a monster just simply isnt. he is a man who has worked hard in the church. he is a good father. >> as their son prepares to face serious financial charges, daves parents took over the care of chelsa and savannah. not the way they expected to spend their 80s. >> he made some mistakes, but nothing of the scope that is generally accepted in the community. >> stan established those trusts for his grandchildren and said dave had the right to use the money how he saw fit to benefit the childre...

>> 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. >> i really dont like th...

Records from the 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 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 c...

Morning hours when police believe debbie must have been killed and the kids say they didnt hear him leave the house. they were there, too, at the time. there was no evidence dave was ever at the crime scene. did you find any dna? >> no. >> did you find any fingerprints. >> no. >> hair, anything? >> no. >> but then they had just begun to uncover the troubling secrets of dave and debbie hawk. coming up -- a family divided. >> i dont believe he would be capable of doing something like this. >> my s...

In august, 2006, two months after his mothers disappearance, child protective services took 16-year-old conrad to a foster home. >> there were a few altercations we had, kind of like what my mom had gone through. >> investigators talked to daves girlfriend, mary. this exchange occurred. >> not going to stop until [ bleep ]. >> aha moment. well, maybe. not quite. >> early on i thought he is never going to accept shes dead. it is going to go on his whole life. i never in my life thought he would k...