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Her fathers defender. why do you think your siblings have chosen the other path. >> i think theyre just very upset by what happened 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. >> chelsea says dave was acting perfectly normal the day after whatever happened happened. no odd behavior. nothing whatever to suggest he had been up all night committing a terrible crime. >> so...

Prosecutor crouch would not budge. not yet anyway. >> were going to wait until we find the body or give the body a more time to come up. >> instead, a year after debbie vanished. dave was charged with embezzling. 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 most of the town, believed their father killed...

Which is why just hours after they discovered debbie missing. they called dave and woke him up and asked him to drive to police headquarters for a talk. the phone call was curious. dave didnt ask why. >> ive received calls in the middle of the night. my first thought for me is family. whats going on? especially if its the police department. he didnt. 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, mother of h...

To a friend, if i was a bad guy, id 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 also made a huge deal about something he supposedly said to his girlfriend about debbie. >> dave said, you know, we wont be rid of that [ bleep ] until shes dead. >> i might have, but i dont remember...

More time with the children. his response was to ask for half custody. the percentages were something like 65 with debbie and 35 with dave. and he wanted to make it an even 50/50. >> and thats when the battle moved to these, trust funds set up for the childrens future. the money came from daves father. dave controlled the funds. and debbie was sure dave was stealing from them to support his own lifestyle. why would she think that? well, this was actually the second set of trust established for t...

Her disappearance and presumed de death. >> sandy brown is daves long time pastor and friend. >> this person portrayed as a monster just simply isnt. hes a man who worked hard in the church. hes a good father. >> as their son prepared to face serious financial charges, daves parents dan and louis. took over custody of chelsea and savannah. not the way they expected to spend their 80s any more they expected to defend their son. >> hes made mistakes. nothing of the scope is generally accepted in t...

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, 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 dhochoked anybody >> things settled down eventually. there was always some dispute. the things conrad said he heard his dad say about his mom, awful. >> things like s...

>> they kept pushing and pushing. and we kept setting back. >> did the cops have it wrong? dave hawks long time pastor thought so. >> this person who is portrayed as such a monster just simply isnt. >> another side of an accused killer. when "dateline" continues. ke s. yup, hes gone noseblind. he thinks it smells fine, but his mom smells this... luckily theres febreze fabric refresher for all the things you cant wash. it finds odors trapped in fabrics and washes them away as it dries. and try pl...

Dave. told the police it couldnt be him. >> i dont believe he could be capable of doing something like this. >> then they started poking around in the relationship between debbie and ex-husband. there curious things began to emerge. for example, in the month before deb disappeared. he took debbie to court and she was fighting back. >> the issues were custody and support. >> dave had asked the court for reduction in $553 a month support payment. why? because he claimed he only earned $6,000 a yea...

Documents scattered everywhere. sitting on top of the file 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 turned out he bought a month before debbie disappeared. told investigators it was for home protection for his daughters and girlfriend, mary. >> however he had never ...