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>> but chel shsa has been and sl is her fathers strongest advocate. >> i think theyre upset and their relationship was not as close to my dad. they were either 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. >> so the things that convinced me about his innocence arent there to convince them. i think this he are -- defending my mom so ...

>> he basically offered that you know, i dont think shes ever going to be found. >> did it work? >> listen to prosecutor larry crouch. >> youre going, oh, why are they putting that in. i thought it was harmful. >> 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. >> and an idea that daves attorneys did not like one bit. >> dave is a combative individual. hes very prideful. hes offended ea...

Wine, we always raise our glasses and say cheers. its 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. >> well, maybe hes angry at his dad because his dad killed his mom. >> his dad didnt kill his mom. >> he thinks so though. >> he...

And then get back to his house without 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 her 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 and anyway if drug theft was behind it. why didnt the thief ta...

Welcome back to dateline, im craig melvin. even though investigators looking into the homicide of debbie hawk had no physical evidence tieing her husband, dave, to the crime. they did uncover information about possible financial wrongdoing on his part. considered it enough to warrant an arrest. could they get the prosecutor to agree. here with more of our story is keith morrison. >> they kept pushing and pushing and we kept setting back. >> the prosecutor at the time, larry crouch, told his inve...

Television cameras. which were now buzzing around endlessly asking, did do you it? >> for the last time, no. im getting tired of answering that question. no means no, but the fools at the hanford police department dont seem to understand that. theyre on a witch hunt is whats going on. theyre 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 ...

Besides, dave them he was at home asleep in the early morning hours when police believe debbie must have been killed. kids said they didnt hear him leave the house. they were too at the time. there was no evidence that dave was ever at the crime scene. >> did you find any dna. >> no. >> did you find any fingerprints no. >> no hair. >> no they just begun to uncover the troubling secrets of dave and debbie hawk. coming up, a family divided: >> i dont believe he would even be capable of doing som...

Two months after his mothers disappearance. child protective services took 16-year-old conrad to a foster home. >> they were just a few altercations that we had. kind of like what my mom had gone through. >> investigations talked many times to daves girlfriend, mary. and eventually this exchange occurred. >> has he ever verbalized to you at all how much he hated debbie. >> what did he say. its not going to stop until shes dead. >> how many times. >> numerous times. >> did you take him serious. >...

The alignment of the stars in this case was just stacked against us. stacked against dave hawk. >> at least in the harsh court of public opinion it looked bad for dave hawk as murder trial approached. >> we had this guy allegedly stealing from his kids. saying bad things about the victim. all these things being wildly 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 seemed to have heard the accusations about dave...

To make you look guilty. >> i was home with my children in another town all night, 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, that 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 maintena...