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As such a monster just simply isn't. he is a man who has worked hard in the church. he is a good father. >> as their son prepares to face serious financial charges, dave's parents took over the care of chelsa and savannah. not the way they expected to spend their 80s. >> he made some mistakes, but nothing of the scope that is generally accepted in the community. >> stan established those trusts for his grandchildren and said dave had the right to use the money how he saw fit to benefit the children. were you surprised to discover how it was used? >> yes. apparently his financial situation was ...

>> 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. >> whether you like it or not, those are the accusation...

Records from the first set of trusts the one only debbie controlled. >> there was $166,000 in those accounts. >> the investigators in hanford now focused hard on dave, searched his home several times, carted off lots of stuff including a stun gun which, it turned out, he bought a month before debbie disappeared. he told detectives it was for protection for his daughters and mary. >> he never discussed it with mary and the children. 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...

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" continues. there's no way to hide f...

In august, 2006, two months after his mother's 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. this exchange occurred. >> not going to stop until [ bleep ]. >> aha moment. well, maybe. not quite. >> early on i thought he is never going to accept she's dead. it is going to go on his whole life. i never in my life thought he would kill her. >> it seemed quite suspicious. most people in town seemed to have made up their minds ab...