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Bludgeoned her, load her into the van, drive it to fresno. 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 farthest pharmaceutical sales. perhaps a drug addict went after the samples she kept in the van. >> all of the pharmaceuticals in her van were missing. >> somebody took them. >> but that was a ludicrous idea, counter 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? ...

During the squabbles of her divorce, she claimed that he tried to choke her. >> she said, he just looked like a crazed animal and i thought he was going to kill me. not too long after that she had said to me if everything ever happens to me, you know where to look. >> dave said that choking thing never happened, he was never violent with her. >> i've never choked anybody. >> things settle down eventually, though there was always some dispute and the things connor ad said he has heard his dad say about his mom, awful. >> things like she needs a taste of her own medicine, she is going to get her...

Based on misinterpreting things he said. like the time he said to a friend, if i was a bad guy, i throw somebody off a bridge. >> my point was, they haven't looked for her, if someone had thrown her off a bridge, it would have floated downstream. they did not look anywhere. >> so did you through her off the bridge? >> no, i didn't throw anybody off a bridge. >> they also made a huge deal about something he supposedly said to his girlfriend about that. >> dave said, we won't be rid of that -- till she's dead. >> i might have, but i don't remember that. that certainly does not mean that i'm goin...

Police had convinced themselves that dave was responsible, prosecutor crouch would not bite, not yet anyhow. >> we're gonna wait, until we find the body or get the body more time to come up. >> instead, a year after debbie vanished, dave was charged with embezzlement, stealing more than $300,000 of his children's trust funds. he pleaded not guilty, was released on bail. >> 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 leaving three children caught in the midd...

Dave hawk to the crime scene, his defense attorneys tried to poke holes in what they saw as a purely circumstantial case. would this be enough to sway the jury? here with the conclusion of our story is keith morris. >> 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 feeling that he knew what they were thinking. >> always blamed ex-husband first? >> it was an awful problem, as he saw it, had been from the day debbie disappeared in a trail of her own blood. the number one suspect, was him. that is what t...