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missing. in her place, her trail of blood. >> my biggest fear was that we were going to find her. >> police found instead was a puzzle. >> and then in my 28 years i have not seen that before. >> a missing woman. a mystery with few clues. >> did you find any parting the prints? hairs? anything? >> but that one men have a motive? >> he steals $300, 000, and youre about to be exposed for it. >> with except without proof, how could anyone trust the jury? >> do you think that they had any e...

>> it was appear that she was drug out of the house against her well. in my 20 years i had not seen that before. >> whatever happened here must have been planned. full out. >> it looked like a staged crime sheen. her jewelry, and her bedroom laid out like she had put it. nothing was missing but her fan. >> had someone had tried to make it look like guy debbie hawk had been kidnapped? or was it the intention, a failed intentioned perhaps, to show that she had just left home. >> i think it was des...

But he seemed to have an alibi, all three kids were with him in his house the night debbie vanished. and besides, there wasnt a shred of physical evidence to tie dave to the scene of apparently violence abduction. his own daughter, who spent the day after the abduction with dave. told the police said could not have been him. >> i dont believe that hed even be capable of doing something like this. >> but then they started poking around in the relationship between debbie and her ex husband. and th...

>> she was short, and attractive, and a lot of fun. and pretty good sense of humor. he would say something and she would pop back out with something that you did not expect. >> they were married within a year, they built a home along his families almond groves. >> i think they both wanted to have a family, and i think that was the impetus for the acceleration, i would say, of the relationship. >> though debbies big sister wasnt sure what she saw in him. >> he seemed very quiet, very opposite of ...

What it was used for. and i acted legally in that respect. >> and then, since they didnt have any evidence against him, said dave, prosecutors made a case based on misinterpreting things he said. like the time he said to a friend, if i was a bad guy, i would throw somebody off of the bridge. >> my point was that they have not looked for her. if somebody had thrown her of a bridge, it would have floated downstream. they did not look anywhere. >> so did you throw her off the bridge? >> [laughter] ...

That have been shattered because of her demise. >> demise, yes, no getting around it now. in july of 2006, the case was reclassified from missing person to homicide. a formality, really. they know from the moment that they arrived at the house, said d.a. investigator, arend lablue, somebody killed debbie. >> we kept up hopes, obviously, for the familys sake. but it was clear, she was not alive based on the crime scene. >> investigators poked around debbies life history. looking for clues. >> she...

Shes going to get hers. shes going to get what she has coming to her. >> in fact, the very night he discovered debbie had vanished, conrad told police his that might have done this. >> i dont see any thing that would disqualify him from being able to carry that out. >> which is why, just hours after the kids discovered debbie was missing, it was 2:20 and by then. police called dave, welcome, up asked him to drive down to police headquarters for a top. and the phone call was curious, said investi...

Jar of the first trust. which listed both dave and debbie as trustees. dave was removed as trustee of those funds. but during the divorce, daves father gave him sole control of a second, quite generous, trust fund. but when investigators ran the numbers on that second fund, administered only by dave? >> basically, there is supposed to be several hundred thousand dollars in each account. and instead, there was just a couple hundred or thousand dollars in each of the kids. he had been living off o...

With no physical evidence tying david hogg to the crime scene. his defense attorneys tried to poke holes in what they saw as a purely circumstantial case. would this be enough to sway the jury? here with the conclusion of our story, is keith morrison. >> dave hawk, on trial for the murder of his ex-wife, debbie, did not testify. did not tell the members of the jury what he was thinking, but he had a sinking feeling that he knew what they were thinking. >> blame the ex-husband first. >> it was an...

His own words. like the conversation with a friend that the police recorded. in which theyve stuck elated on what might have happened to debbie. the defense played it in court as an unguarded indication that theyve had no idea what happened. >> i tell you, if i was at all a bad day. id go throw somebody of a bridge. thats what i do, believe it or not, i toss them in and float them downstream. and that go away. >> he basically offered that, you, know i dont think shes ever going to be found. >> d...