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Set up for the childrens futures. debbie was sure hes stealing from his father to support his lifestyle. why would she think that? this was the second set of trust established for the children. several years a judge caught daves hand in the cookie jar. dave was removed as trustee of those funds. during the divorce, daves father gave him soul control of the second quite generous trust fund. but when investigators ran the number on the second fund that admin st administered only by dave. instead t...

Vanished, dave was charged with embezzling and stealing from his own childrens trust funds. he pleaded not guilty. >> how does it feel to be out of jail. >> reporter: and waited for r the other shoes to drop. >> imagine this, the police and not to mention most of the time believed their father killed their mother. leaving three children caught in the middle. conrad had no doubt his dad killed his mom. a dad he referred to as dave. >> i tried to cut all ties that i had with him as much as i cou c...

>> reporter: dave daves parentk over custody of their grandchildren. >> he made some mistakes but nothing of the scope that is generally accepted in the community. >> stan established those trusts for his grandchildren and says dave had the right to use the money how he saw fit to benefit the children. >> were you surprised to discover how it was used? >> his financial situation was worse than i knew. >> a year past in 2008, after two years her body still has not been found. there is no new evid...

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 -- >> i didnt have the motive and i didnt have the capacity. >> you know how it can be, said dave. once people get it in their heads you did something, they will tend to misinterpret everythi...

He had a stun gun a month after debbie disappeared. he told investigators it was for protection. >> he never discussed it with the children at all. they did not know it existed. >> reporter: they could not find anything connecting the stun gun to the crime, it was odd. they also took his computer and since dave did volunteer work at a local church, they seize the churchs computer, too. and cuffed him outside his house in full view of local television camera which were now buzzing around and aski...

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 wrong. >> so who did kill debbie? dave has an opinion about that, too. who else wanted her dead? >> maybe the boyfriend that was stalking her. >> stalking her? >> this is somebody who was reported to the police and the police swept it under the rug apparently. it was an ex-boyfriend. >> of cours...

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 and mary share a celebratory toast after debbies disappearance. dave said he didnt get it. >> whenever we open a bottle of 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...

Crouch. >> oh no, why are they throwing those in? >> though 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. >> the idea that daves attorney do not like one bit. >> davis a combative individual. >> he thinks hes smart but hes not smart. >> dave held his tongue in court. >> he saved his story for us. so you dont think they had any useful information against you at all. >> can anybody name...

>> reporter: it was a frustrating year back in 2006 here in california central valley. those purple ribbon search teams came up empty. >> reporter: dave hawk, a person of interest. he seems to have an alibi. all three kids were with him in his house the night debbie vanished and it was not a shred of physical evidence. >> i dont believe he would be capable of doing something like this. >> reporter: then they started polki poking around the relationship between debbie and dave. in the months befo...

Hawk. at least in the harsh core of public opinion. it looked bad for dave hawk as his murder trial is tried in hanford, california. this guy stealing from his kids saying bad things about the sympathetic victim and why we play it in the press? >> reporter: if there is a case for change, this must be it. almost everybody seem to have heard the accusations about dave. every time he had a court of appearance, friends of debbie crowded the public gallery. during jury selection, he heard some jurors...