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Kim was debbie's attorney. >> the issues she was dealing with were custody and support. >> dave asked the court for a reduction in $553 a month child support payment. why? because he claimed he only earned $6,000 a year. his salary came from his dad, who paid him $500 a month to work on his almond farm. his only income, apparently, but debbie's attorney found that hard to believe. >> he lived in what i understood to be a nice home, drove a late model suburban. that is hard to do on $6,000 a year. >> debbie asked the court for more time with the children. >> his response was to ask for half cus...

Including a stun gun which, it turned out, he bought a month before debbie disappeared. he told detectives it was for home protection for his daughters and girlfriend, mary. >> he never discussed it with mary and he had never discussed wit the children at all. they did not know it existed. >> they couldn't find anything to connect the stun gun to the crime but it was odd. they also took his computers, of course. and since dave did volunteer work at a local church they seized the church computer, too. even cuffed him outside his house in full view of local television cameras which were now buzz...

Debbie worked in pharmaceutical sales. perhaps a drug addict had gone after the samples she kept in the van. all of the pharmaceuticals in her van were missing. somebody took them. >> that was a ludicrous idea, countered the prosecution. debbie carried very few samples. anyway, if drug theft was behind it why didn't the thief take any jewelry or electronics? no, it all seemed to come down to dave. his character, his behavior and his own words, like a conversation with a friend police recorded when dave speculated what might have happened to debbie. the defense played it in court as an unguarde...

Spend the money as he saw fit. any way that would benefit the children. >> the money is to be used for the health, education, support and maintenance of the children. and that's exactly what it was used for and i acted legally in that respect. >> and then since they didn't 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 a bridge. >> my point was they haven't looked for her. if someone had thrown her off a bridge it would have floated downstream. they didn...

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 farm hadn't found her remains in a field in the neighboring town where dave grew up. debbie's father bud tree had a dying wish that she be found before she passed away. he left this earth just a week after that discovery. and the children who held opposing views about their father's innocence -- >> it's complicated. >> yep. >> has this created a rift between you two?...