his response was to ask for half custody. the percent fasons were somethi 65 with debbie and he wanted to make it an even 50/50. and that s when the battle moved to these. trust funds set up for the children s futures. the money came from dave s father, but dave controlled the funds. and debbie was sure dave was stealing from them to support his own lifestyle. why would she think that? well, this was actually the second set of trusts established for the children. several years before, a judge caught dave s hand in the cookie jar of the first trust. dave was removed as trustee of those funds, but during the divorce dave s foather gave him sole control of a quite generous trust fund. but when investigators ran the
they ll tend to misinterpret everything to make you look guilty. i was home with my children in another town all night. but i m being accused of being in another place committing a terrible crime based on financial shenanigans that didn t exist in the first place. shenanigans like for example that trust fund for his kids. his father made the terms pretty broad so he could spend the money as he saw fit any way that would benefit the children. the money is to be used for the health, education and maintenance of the children. and that s exactly what it was used for, and i acted legally in that respect. then, since they didn t have any evidence against him, said dave, prosecutors made a case based on misinterpreting things he said, like the time he said
remember the documents scattered everywhere around her desk. sitting on top of the pile were the records from the children s first set of trusts, the one only debbie controlled. there was there is $166,000 in those. they focused now 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 it was for home protection for his daughters and girlfriend. however he never discussed with mary or the children at all. didn t-de -they did not know existed. they couldn t find anything to connect the stun gun to the crime. but it was odd. they also took his computer, of course, and since dave did volunteer work at a local tor church, they eased that computer as well. even cuffed him outside his
divorce, she claimed he tried to choke her. she said he just looked like a crazed animal, and i thought he was going to kill me. and not too long after that she had said to me if anything ever happens to me, you know where to look. dave said that choking thing just never happened. that he was never violent with her. i ve never choked anybody. things settled down eventually. though there was always some dispute, anded things conrad says he heard his dad say about his mom, awful. things like she needs a taste of her own medicine. she s going to get hers. she s going get what she has coming to her. in fact, the very night he discovered debbie had vanished conrad told police his dad might have done this. i anything that would disqualify him from being able to carry that out.
august, 2006, two months after his mother s disappears, child protective services took conrad to a foster home. there were a few altercations we had kind of like my mom went through. investigators talk many times to dave s girlfriend, mary. and eventually this exchange occurred. has he ever verbalized how much at all. it s not going to stop until dead. and ah-hah moment? well maybe. not quite. early on i thought it s never going to stop until she s dead meaning it s going to go on his whole life. i never never in my life thought he would kill her. never. so it all seemed quite suspicious. in fact, most people in town seemed to have made up their minds about dave hawk. but one of them was not the da.