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

Stalking her? >> stalking her? >> this is somebody who was reported to the police and the police swept it under the rug, apparently. it was an ex-boyfriend. >> of course investigators said that they did look into that and other leads to. they all came back to dave. and one primary motive. so, some cross-examination. prosecutors say that you killed your ex-wife because she was gonna exposure embezzlement in the children's trust funds. are you afraid that your father was going to find out what you are doing with the money, the father who lovingly put the money into the trust funds before you too...

Father does. >> you're reading from a script that the prosecutor gave you, because none of that is true. >> a guilty man or not. the jury did not take very long to decide. >> we the jury find the defendant, david martin hawk, guilty of the murder of debbie hawk. >> guilty of murder and nine financial crimes. dave hawk was sentenced to spend the rest of his life behind bars. but was that the end of the story? none in the least. his defense attorney appeal the case as high as he could, even trying the supreme court which declined review. then in march 2016, ten years after debbie hawk disappeare...

Then said the prosecutors, he must have dragged debbie's body in the garage and dispose of her some where and drove them out to fresno and left it in a high crime zone. >> how did he get back home snl. >> the prosecutors must have picked it up and driven 40 miles back to his farm. >> there was no body and dna and no forensic evidence to show that dave had been at the murder scene. >> everybody in town seems to have a theory and the prosecutor, did, too. >> was that proof? >> the state tried to build a bridge of dave's financial crime to the murder, pai-- enough? >> well, we shall see. >> there...

>> perhaps that money was my own money. prosecutor never bothered to figure out what dollar went where, did they? >> you made it hard because you were mixing up the trust fund money and your money all the time. frankly, that is what scam artists do. >> i'm not a scam artist. >> why didn't you get a job. >> i had a job. >> i'm talking about a job that pays enough to support a family which is what a dad does. >> you are reading from a script the prosecutor has given you because none of these things are true. >> a guilty man or not? the jury did not take very long to decide. >> we, the jury, find...