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Wine we raise our glasses and say cheers. it is just a tradition. we were not toasting anybody's anything. >> why have you never been able to persuade conrad of your innocence? >> i don't know. he knows that i was at home the whole time, never left, didn't have any involvement in anything illegal. but he's perhaps angry and needs to fill in the blanks with something. >> maybe he is angry at his dad because his dad killed his mom. >> his dad didn't kill his mom. >> he thinks so though. >> he could be wrong. >> so who did kill debbie? dave has an opinion about that, too. who else wanted her dead...

>> i was home with my children in another town all night. but i'm being accused of being in another place committing a terrible crime based on financial shenanigans that didn't exist in the first place. >> shenanigans like for example the trust fund for his kids. his father made the terms very broad, said dave, so he could 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 h...

>> a guilty man or not? the jury 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 farm hand found her remains in a field in the neighboring town where dave grew up. debbie's fat...

At home asleep in the early morning hours when police believe debbie must have been killed and the kids say they didn't hear him leave the house. they were there, too, at the time. there was no evidence dave was ever at the crime scene. did you find any dna? >> no. >> did you find any fingerprints. >> no. >> hair, anything? >> no. >> but then they had just begun to uncover the troubling secrets of dave and debbie hawk. coming up -- a family divided. >> i don't believe he would be capable of doing something like this. >> my suspicion was growing stronger and stronger. >> when "dateline" conti...

Purely circumstantial case. would this be enough to sway the jury? here with the conclusion of our story is keith morrison. dave hawk, on trial for the murder of his ex-wife debbie did not testify, didn't tell the members of the jury what he was thinking. he had a sinking feeling he knew what they were thinking. >> always blame the ex-husband first. >> it was an awful problem as he saw it. had been from the day his ex-wife debbie disappeared through a trail of her own blood, the number one suspect was him. that's what the police had been saying all along. that is apparently what a great many...