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Debbie's wife killed her. why? they learned that he took $3,000 from their children's pension. dave hawk's action were about to force the decision. here is keith morris. >> they kept pushing and pushing. we kept on sitting back. >> reporter: the prosecutor at the time, larry crouch, told investigators he would not charge hawk even after it is obvious that this single mother had been murdered. after months searching around hanford, california, turns out no signs of her anywhere. prosecutor crouch would not budge, not yet anyway. >> we'll wait until we find the body, more time to come up. instea...

On, they could not find the evidence to arrest him. dave remains a free man. something that makes his own son, conrad very nervous. >> my suspicion was growing stronger and stronger. conrad toll police the night he discovered his mom were missing. he saw the night with his father and his girlfriend. >> at the time i thought my father and his girlfriend had poor taste. >> reporter: conrad spent that summer out. in august of 2006, two months after his mother's disappearance, child protective disappearance took 16 years old conrad to a foster home. there were just a few altercations kind of what ...

>> 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. dave's attorneys. >> we have this guy allegedly stealing from his kids. saying bad things about the victim. all of these things being widely played in the press. >> if there ever was a case for a change of venue, this was it. almost everybody seemed to have heard the accusations. every time he had a court appearance, purple clad friends of debbie gathered. during jury selection, he heard jurors tell the judge they had

To the murder. but was that enough? we shall see. >> there is a number of other explanations for what could have happened other than dave. dave was a convenient ex-husband. >> coming up, one of his children is convinced he's not guilty. could dave hawk convince a jury. >> i told them i wanted to testify. >> when dateline continues. that keeps you up again, and again. advil pm silences pain, and you sleep the whole night. advil pm of certain cancers clater in life.k from an infection, human papillomavirus i knew that hpv could lead to certain cancers. i knew her risk for hpv increases as she ge...

Did not take very long to decide. >> we, the jury, find the defendant david martin hawk, guilty of the murder of debbie hawk. >> guilty of murder and nine financial crimes. dave hawk was sentenced to spend the rest of his life behind bars. but was that the end of this story? not in the least. his defense attorney appealed the case as high as he could, even trying the supreme court, which declined review. then in march 2016, ten years after debbie hawk disappeared. a farmhand found her remains in a field in the neighboring town where dave grew up. debbie'sup father, bud, had a dying wish that s...