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Eventually this exchange occurred. >> has he brutalized you at a aal all -- >> it's not going to stop until [ bleep ]. >> an hah moment? well, maybe. not quite. >> it seemed quite suspicious. most people in town seemed to have made up their minds about dave hawk, but one of them was not the d.a. >> we kept pushing and pushing and we kept sitting back. >> did the cops have it wrong? dave hawk's longtime pastor thought so. coming up -- >> this person who is portrayed as such a monster simply isn't. he's a man who has worked hard

Ex-wife's murder. yet they were convinced he killed her. why? because they learned she was about to expos him for embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars for a trust fund set up for his kids. now they had to convince the prosecutor to take the case to trial. and dave hawk's actions were about to force a decision. here wen is keith morrison. i kept pushing and pushing and we kept sitting back. >> the prosecutor at the time, larry crouch, told his investigators he would not charge dave hawk with the murder of his ex-wife debbie, even after it was obvious this popular single mother had been...

Couldn't find the evidence to arrest him. dave remained a free man, something that made his own son, conrad, very nervous. >> my suspicion was growing stronger and stronger. >> conrad told the police about the night after his mother was found missing, when he saw his dad was sharing a bottle of win with his girlfriend. >> they opened it, toasted, and at the time, i thought my father and his girlfriend had really poor taste. >> they spent that summer on the outs after quite some time of not getting along too terribly well. in august, 2006, two months after his mother's disappearance, child prot...

>> 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 their mother leaving three children caught in the middle. conrad had no doubt his dad killed his mom, a dad he began referring to as dave. >> i tried to cut all ties that i had with him as much as i could. he was nothing to me now. >>...

Believed would show his innocen innocence. here again is dave morrison. 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 as his murder trial approached in hanford, california. dennis peterson and mark coleman were dave's attorneys. >> this guy allegedly stealing from his kids, saying bad things about this sympathetic victim and all these things being widely played in the press. >> if there ever was a case for change of venue, this must be it, said the defense. after all...