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Bought his girlfriend, mary, a $27,000 lexus, took her on a vacation to hawaii, and used $60,000 to pay off divorce costs and the $1,500 he owed to his kids from the first set of trusts. here believed detectives was the heart of the motive for murder. debbie, if she hadn't disappeared was about to expose all that in court. >> you steal $300,000 and you are about to be exposed by it -- >> by a woman you despise? >> exactly. >> certainly another piece of the puzzle. >> there is another strange piece to the puzzle. remember the mess around debbie's desk, documents scattered everywhere? sitting on...

But prosecutor larry crouch heard disquieting reports from his investigators. >> they started surveilling our office, the police offices, eventually starts driving by an investigator's home. it was getting pretty concerning out there. >> time to move. on may 29, 2008, dave hawk was arrested and charged with first-degree murder and a special circumstance murder for financial gain. he pleaded not guilty. when the trial finally began more than a year later dave faced murder and the earlier embezzlement charges together. prosecutor larry crouch offered the jury this theory, that dave snuck out of ...

>> i think they're just very upset about what happened and their relationship was not as close to my dad. they were not home or not awake when i was awake. and they were not around him the next day like i was around him. >> chelsa says dave was acting perfectly normal the day after whatever happened happened. no odd behavior, nothing whatever to suggest he had been up all night committing aer the crime. >> the things that convinced me about his innocence aren't there to convince them. i think they are defending my mom so much, though, that it is like they are going to point to the most obvious...

It was a frustrating summer back in 2006 here in the farmlands of california's central valley. the purple ribbon search teams came up empty though they looked everywhere for weeks. police named dave hawk a person of interest. he seemed to have an alibi. all three kids were with him in his house the night debbie vanished. and besides there wasn't a shred of physical evidence to tie dave to the scene of an apparently violent abduction. his own daughter who spent the day after the abduction with dave told police it couldn't be him. >> i don't believe he would be capable of doing something like th...

Well, we shall see. >> there's a number of other explanations for what could have happened other than dave. dave was a convenient ex-husband. >> one of his children was convinced he was not guilty. but could dave hawk convince a jury? coming up -- >> i told them i wanted to testify. >> when the disappearance of debbie hawk continues. sappearanf debbie hawk continues. -and...that's your basic three-point turn.