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Set up for the children's futures. debbie was sure he's 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 dave's hand in the cookie jar. dave was removed as trustee of those funds. during the divorce, dave's 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 there was a couple of hundreds of thousand dollars for the kids. he had been living off of it. so...

Vanished, dave was charged with embezzling and stealing from his own children's 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 could. he's nothing to me now. >> chelsa has been her father's strongest defender. >> reporter: why ...

>> reporter: dave dave's 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 evidence tieing dave to her murder. larry crouch heard this report

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 didn't have the motive and i didn't 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 everything to make you look guilty. >> i was home with my children in another town all night. but i'm bein...

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 church's computer, too. and cuffed him outside his house in full view of local television camera which were now buzzing around and asking, did you do it? >> for the last time, no. i am getting tired of answering that question. no mean...