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>> but chel shsa has been and sl is her father's strongest advocate. >> i think they're upset and their relationship was not as close to my dad. they were either 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. >> so the things that convinced me about his innocence aren't there to convince them. i think this he are -- defending my mom so much so that it's like they're going to point to the most obvious suspect. >> but chelsa wasn't t...

>> he basically offered that you know, i don't think she's ever going to be found. >> did it work? >> listen to prosecutor larry crouch. >> you're going, oh, why are they putting that in. i thought it was harmful. >> what the jury thought, no one could say. then there was inevitably a conversation about whether or not dave would testify. >> i told them i wanted to testify. >> and an idea that dave's attorneys did not like one bit. >> dave is a combative individual. he's very prideful. he's offended easily. >> he thinks he's smart and hates for anybody to think he's not smart. he'd be perfect f...

Wine, we always raise our glasses and say cheers. it's 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. >> well, maybe he's 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 w...

And then get back to his house without getting any blood on him. without being discovered. >> so what did happen to debbie hawk? the defense floated this theory. debbie worked in pharmaceutical sales. perhaps a drug addict had gone after the samples she kept in her van. >> all of the pharmaceuticals in her van were missing. >> somebody took them. >> that was a ludicrous idea. countered the prosecution. debbie carried very few samples and anyway if drug theft was behind it. why didn't the thief take any jewelry or electronics. no at all seemed to come down to dave. his behavior, his character. ...

Welcome back to dateline, i'm craig melvin. even though investigators looking into the homicide of debbie hawk had no physical evidence tieing her husband, dave, to the crime. they did uncover information about possible financial wrongdoing on his part. considered it enough to warrant an arrest. could they get the prosecutor to agree. here with more of our story is keith morrison. >> they kept pushing and pushing and we kept setting back. >> the prosecutor at the time, larry crouch, told his investigators he would not charge dave hawk with the murder of his ex-wife debbie. even after it was ob...