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Stalking her? 24 was something wrorted to the police and they swept it under the rug apparently. it was an ex-boyfriend. >> of course investigator rs said they did look into that and other leads too, but they all dame back to dave and one primary motive. so, some cross-examination. prosecu prosecutes said you killed her because she was going to expose your -- >> weren't you afraid your father was going to find out what you were doing with that money, your father who lovingly put the money into the trust fund before you could have syphoned it out? >> i really don't like the way you're character...

>> 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...

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...

A $27,000 car using trust fund money. you took a trip to hawaii with your girlfriend. you paid off your divorce attorney fees and money you took from the first set of trust by taking $60,000 out of the kids' second trust fund. >> the money was used for the children. >> which child drove the lexus? >> all three children were driven in the lexus. >> which child went to hawaii on vacation? >> perhaps that money was my own money. prosecutor never bothered to figureut wha dollar went where, did they? >> well, you made it kind of hard for them because you were mixing up the trust fund money and your...

Police swept it under the rug, apparently. 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 children's trust fund. were you afraid your father was going to find out what you were doing with that money from the trust fund? your father who lovingly put the money into the trust fund before you kind of siphoned it out. >> i really don't like the way you're characterizi...