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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, almost everybody seeped to have heard the accusations about dave and every time he had a court appearance purple clad friends of debbie crowded into the public gallery. in fact, during jury selection...

>> i don't believe he would be capable of doing something like this. >> then they started poking around in the relationship between debbie and her ex-husband and there some curious things began to emerge. for example, in the months before debbie disappeared dave took debbie to court and she was fighting back. this 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 ...

Arrived at the house, said d.a. investigator aaron lebleu, somebody killed debbie. >> we kept up hopes, obviously, for the family's sake, but it was clear she was not alive based on the crime scene. >> investigators poked around debbie's life history looking for clues. >> she was very talkative, friendly, likable. she was kind of the life of the the party. >> this is debbie's sister, diane, who recalled how friends set her up on that blind date years ago. >> firecracker. >> he was the date, dave hawk. >> she was short and attractive and a lot of fun and pretty good sense of humor. you'd say so...

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 just simply isn't. >> another side of an accused killer, when "dateline" continues. what bad back? advil is... relief that's fast. strength that lasts. you'll ask... what pain? with advil liqui-gels.

It was an ex-boyfriend. >> of course, investigators say they did look into that and other leads, too, but they all came back to dave. and one primary motive. so some cross-examination. prosecutors said you killed your ex-wife because she was going to expose your embezzlement of the childrens' trust funds. were you afraid your father was going to find out what you were doing with that money with the trust fund? your father who lovingly put the money into the trust fund before you siphoned it out. >> i really don't like the way you are characterizing these things. i really don't like the way the...