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Out of the window, and got someone to give him a ride to debbie's house and entered her bedroom. >> i think he tried the stun gun on her and she screamed very loudly and he struck her with something more than once. at that point, i assume he suffocated her. >> then, said the prosecutor, he must have dragged debbie's body to the garage, put her in her own van, disposed of her somewhere and drove to fresno. and left it in the high-crime zone. how did he get back home? that accomplice, said the prosecutor, must have picked him up and driven him the 40 miles back to his farm. but really, there was...

>> his response was to ask for half custody. the percentages were 65 with debbie and 35 with dave. he wanted to make it an even 50/50. and that is when the battle moved to these, trust funds set up for the childrens' futures the money came from dave's father, but dave controlled the funds, and debbie was sure dave was stealing from them to support his own lifestyle. why would she think that? well, this was actually the second set of trusts established for the children. several years before a judge caught dave's hand in the cookie jar of the first trust which listed both dave and debbie as trus...

Anywhere, and after police had convinced themselves that dave was responsible. prosecutor crouch would not budge. not yet, anyway. >> we're going to wait until we find the body or give the body more time to come up. >> 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 leavi...

Television cameras which were now buzzing around endlessly asking, did you do it? >> for the last time, no. i'm getting tired of answering that question. no means no. but the fools at the hanford police department don't seem to understand that. they are on a witch hunt is what is going on. they are on a witch hunt. >> whatever they were on, they 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 missing when he...

Disappearance, child protective services took 16-year-old conrad to a foster home. >> there were a few altercations we had, kind of like what my mom had gone through. >> investigators talked to dave's girlfriend, mary. eventually, this exchange occurred. >> has he ever verbalized at all how much he hated her? >> absolutely. >> what did he say? >> not going to stop until she's dead. >> when did he say this? >> numerous times. >> an aha moment? well, maybe not quite. >> think he was serious? >> early on i thought he is never going to accept she's dead. it is going to go on his whole life. i neve...